With decreasing Reynolds number, $Re$, turbulence in channel flow becomes spatio-temporally intermittent and self-organises into solitary stripes oblique to the mean flow direction. We report here the existence of localised nonlinear travelling wave solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations possessing this obliqueness property. Such solutions are identified numerically using edge tracking coupled with arclength continuation. All solutions emerge in saddle-node bifurcations at values of $Re$ lower than the non-localised solutions. Relative periodic orbit solutions bifurcating from branches of travelling waves have also been computed. A complete parametric study is performed, including their stability, the investigation of their large-scale flow, and the robustness to changes of the numerical domain.
Oblique stripe solutions of channel flow
Chaitanya S. Paranjape,Y. Duguet,B. Hof
Published 2020 in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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2020
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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2020-06-09
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Physics, Engineering
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