Localized disturbances in parallel shear flows

Applied Scientific Research - Tập 53 - Trang 51-97 - 1994
Dan S. Henningson1, L. Håkan Gustavsson2, Kenneth S. Breuer3
1Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
2Division of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
3Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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The development of localized disturbances in parallel shear flows is reviewed. The inviscid case is considered, first for a general velocity profile and then in the special case of plane Couette flow so as to bring out the key asymptotic results in an explicit form. In this context, the distinctive differences between the wave-packet associated with the asymptotic behavior of eigenmodes and the non-dispersive (inviscid) continuous spectrum is highlighted. The largest growth is found for three-dimensional disturbances and occurs in the normal vorticity component. It is due to an algebraic instability associated with the lift-up effect. Comparison is also made between the analytical results and some numerical calculations. Next the viscous case is treated, where the complete solution to the initial value problem is presented for bounded flows using eigenfunction expansions. The asymptotic, wave-packet type behaviour is analyzed using the method of steepest descent and kinematic wave theory. For short times, on the other hand, transient growth can be large, particularly for three-dimensional disturbances. This growth is associated with cancelation of non-orthogonal modes and is the viscous equivalent of the algebraic instability. The maximum transient growth possible to obtain from this mechanism is also presented, the so called optimal growth. Lastly the application of the dynamics of three dimensional disturbances in modeling of coherent structures in turbulent flows is discussed.

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