On the stability of parallel shear flows with embedded swirl

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. A177-A177
Author(s):  
Lu Zhao ◽  
Saeed Farokhi ◽  
Ray Taghavi
Keyword(s):  
Shear Flows ◽  
Parallel Shear Flows ◽  
The Stability

scholarly journals A General Numerical Method for Analyzing the Linear Stability of Stratified Parallel Shear Flows

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 2795-2808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Rees ◽  
Adam Monahan
Keyword(s):  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Numerical Method ◽  
Shear Flows ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Analytical Approximations ◽  
Onset Of Turbulence ◽  
Parallel Shear Flows ◽  
Critical Layers ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Stability Results

Abstract The stability analysis of stratified parallel shear flows is fundamental to investigations of the onset of turbulence in atmospheric and oceanic datasets. The stability analysis is performed by considering the behavior of small-amplitude waves, which is governed by the Taylor–Goldstein (TG) equation. The TG equation is a singular second-order eigenvalue problem, whose solutions, for all but the simplest background stratification and shear profiles, must be computed numerically. Accurate numerical solutions require that particular care be taken in the vicinity of critical layers resulting from the singular nature of the equation. Here a numerical method is presented for finding unstable modes of the TG equation, which calculates eigenvalues by combining numerical solutions with analytical approximations across critical layers. The accuracy of this method is assessed by comparison to the small number of stratification and shear profiles for which analytical solutions exist. New stability results from perturbations to some of these profiles are also obtained.

On the Stability of Parallel Shear Flows with Embedded Swirl

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Zhao ◽  
Saeed Farokhi ◽  
Ray Taghavi
Keyword(s):  
Shear Flows ◽  
Parallel Shear Flows ◽  
The Stability

scholarly journals Exact coherent structures in an asymptotically reduced description of parallel shear flows

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 015504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Beaume ◽  
Edgar Knobloch ◽  
Gregory P Chini ◽  
Keith Julien
Keyword(s):  
Coherent Structures ◽  
Shear Flows ◽  
Parallel Shear Flows

Extension of classical stability theory to viscous planar wall-bounded shear flows

2019 ◽  
Vol 877 ◽  
pp. 1134-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Lee ◽  
Shixiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Shear Flows ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Linear Instability ◽  
Slip Condition ◽  
Translation Invariant ◽  
Alternative Derivation ◽  
Wall Boundary ◽  
Wall Boundary Conditions ◽  
Parallel Shear Flows

A viscous extension of Arnold’s inviscid theory for planar parallel non-inflectional shear flows is developed and a viscous Arnold’s identity is obtained. Special forms of the viscous Arnold’s identity have been revealed that are closely related to the perturbation’s enstrophy identity derived by Synge (Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress for Applied Mechanics, 1938, pp. 326–332, John Wiley) (see also Fraternale et al., Phys. Rev. E, vol. 97, 2018, 063102). Firstly, an alternative derivation of the perturbation’s enstrophy identity for strictly parallel shear flows is acquired based on the viscous Arnold’s identity. The alternative derivation induces a weight function. Thereby, a novel weighted perturbation’s enstrophy identity is established, which extends the previously known enstrophy identity to include general streamwise translation-invariant shear flows. Finally, the validity of the enstrophy identity for parallel shear flows is rigorously examined and established under global nonlinear dynamics imposed with two classes of wall boundary conditions. As an application of the enstrophy identity, we quantitatively investigate the mechanism of linear instability/stability within the normal modal framework. The investigation reveals a subtle interaction between a critical layer and its adjacent boundary layer, which determines the stability nature of the disturbance. As an implementation of the relaxed wall boundary conditions imposed for the enstrophy identity, a control scheme is proposed that transitions the wall settings from the no-slip condition to the free-slip condition, through which a flow is stabilized quickly in an early stage of the transition.

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