Journal
JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR SCIENCE
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 185-199Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00332-013-9183-4
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Turbulence; Turbulent transport; Navier-Stokes equations
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Funding
- USDOE [DE-FG02-ER53223]
- NSF [PHY-0555324, PHY-0855335, PHY-1205219]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1205219] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The background method is adapted to derive rigorous limits on surface speeds and bulk energy dissipation for shear stress-driven flow in two- and three-dimensional channels. By-products of the analysis are nonlinear energy stability results for plane Couette flow with a shear stress boundary condition: when the applied stress is gauged by a dimensionless Grashoff number , the critical for energy stability is 139.5 in two dimensions, and 51.73 in three dimensions. We derive upper bounds on the friction (a.k.a. dissipation) coefficient , where tau is the applied shear stress and is the mean velocity of the fluid at the surface, for flows at higher including developed turbulence: C (f) a parts per thousand currency sign1/32 in two dimensions and C (f) a parts per thousand currency sign1/8 in three dimensions. This analysis rigorously justifies previously computed numerical estimates.
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