New insights into turbulent spots

X Wu - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Transitional–turbulent spots bridge the deterministic laminar state with the stochastic
turbulent state and affect the transition zone length in engineering flows. Turbulent spot …

Experimental measurements in plane Couette–Poiseuille flow: dynamics of the large-and small-scale flow

L Klotz, AM Pavlenko, JE Wesfreid - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
In this paper we experimentally study the transitional range of Reynolds numbers in plane
Couette–Poiseuille flow, focusing our attention on the localized turbulent structures triggered …

Exact invariant solution reveals the origin of self-organized oblique turbulent-laminar stripes

F Reetz, T Kreilos, TM Schneider - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Wall-bounded shear flows transitioning to turbulence may self-organize into alternating
turbulent and laminar regions forming a stripe pattern with non-trivial oblique orientation …

Turbulent spot formation in stably stratified three-dimensional Yukawa liquids

S Kalita, R Ganesh - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
A plane-Couette flow (PCF) is considered in a stably stratified three-dimensional (3D)
Yukawa liquid, perturbed initially with a finite amplitude 3D perturbation. Stable stratification …

Quadrupolar flows around spots in internal shear flows

Z Wang, C Guet, R Monchaux, Y Duguet… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Turbulent spots occur in shear flows confined between two walls and are surrounded by
robust quadrupolar flows. Although the far-field decay of such large-scale flows has been …

Aging and memory of transitional turbulence

V Mukund, CS Paranjape, MP Sitte, G Yalnız… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The recent classification of the onset of turbulence as a directed percolation (DP) phase
transition has been applied to all major shear flows including pipe, channel, Couette and …

Momentum balance and stresses in a suspension of spherical particles in a plane Couette flow

M Rahmani, A Hammouti, A Wachs - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Non-Brownian suspension of monodisperse spherical particles, with volume fractions
ranging between ϕ= 0.05 and 0.38 and particle Reynolds numbers ranging between Re p …

Instability analysis for transient Hartmann flow of graphene oxide nanoparticles with water base fluid

Z Hussain, M Ali, Y Khan, M Ayub, WA Khan - Journal of Thermal Analysis …, 2024 - Springer
Based on exclusive thermal dynamic of nanomaterials, various applications are noted in
engineering and industrial processes. Owing to such thermal impact, the researchers have …

Spot formation in three-dimensional Yukawa liquid

S Kalita, R Ganesh - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Dynamics of a three-dimensional (3D) plane Couette flow (PCF), which subjected to a 3D
finite amplitude particle velocity perturbation, is addressed using 3D “classical first …

Transient states in plane Couette flow

D De Souza, T Bergier, R Monchaux - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
We present the rich and complex relaxation dynamics of turbulent plane Couette flow when
the Reynolds number is lowered. In particular, we reveal the existence of well-defined …