Coherent structures in transitional plane Couette flow

Paul Manneville (1)

1 LadHyX - Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique

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.

Domains: Fluid mechanics [physics.class-ph]; Fluids mechanics [physics.class-ph]

Paul Manneville. Coherent structures in transitional plane Couette flow. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2012, 77 (3), pp.391-398. ⟨10.1093/imamat/hxs026⟩. ⟨hal-00996505⟩