Bifurcations and bursting in two-dimensional Poiseuille flow
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 30 (12) , 3644-3646
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866450
Abstract
The bifurcations to two-dimensional unsteady behavior of a large amplitude equilibrium shear wave train in two-dimensional Poiseuille flow are studied by direct simulation of the time evolution of the full Navier–Stokes equations. It is found that the wave train becomes unstable at Re∼5600, and sheds a limit cycle which, at higher Re, seems to undergo further transitions to more complex behaviors. It is shown that the site of the original bifurcation is in the neighborhood of the walls and that it shows some characteristics suggestive of the burst generation mechanism in the boundary layer.Keywords
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