Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: In channel flows a step on the route to turbulence is the formation of streaks, often due to algebraic growth of disturbances. While a variation of viscosity in the gradient direction often plays a large role in laminar-turbulent transition in shear flows, we show that it has, surprisingly, little effect on the algebraic growth. Nonuniform viscosity therefore may not always work as a flow-control strategy for maintaining the flow as laminar.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2118199724