3 papers
physics.flu-dyn2026
Minimal seeds in the Stokes boundary layer
Tom Eaves
Minimal seeds, the smallest amplitude perturbations that trigger transition to turbulence, are presented in the Stokes boundary layer, the oscillating flow of a viscous fluid above…
physics.flu-dyn2021
Optimizing the control of transition to turbulence using a Bayesian method
Anton Pershin, Cedric Beaume, Tom S. Eaves +1
The nonlinear robustness of laminar plane Couette flow is considered under the action of in-phase spanwise wall oscillations by computing properties of the edge of chaos, i.e., the…
physics.flu-dyn2019
Stably stratified exact coherent structures in shear flow: the effect of Prandtl number
Jake Langham, Tom S. Eaves, Rich R. Kerswell
We examine how known unstable equilibria of the Navier-Stokes equations in plane Couette flow adapt to the presence of an imposed stable density difference between the two boundari…