Abstract : We briefly review the recent work on turbulent coherent structures in the transition to and from turbulence in wall-bounded flows, with special emphasis on the plane Couette flow for which these structures self-organize to form a pattern of bands alternately laminar and turbulent.
Paul Manneville. Coherent structures in transitional plane Couette flow. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2012, 77 (3), pp.391-398. ⟨10.1093/imamat/hxs026⟩. ⟨hal-00996505⟩