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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 1517-1534Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1566753
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Three- dimensional steady states and traveling wave solutions of the Navier - Stokes equations are computed in plane Couette and Poiseuille flows with both free- slip and no- slip boundary conditions. They are calculated using Newton's method by continuation of solutions that bifurcate from a two- dimensional streaky flow then by smooth transformation ( homotopy) from Couette to Poiseuille flow and from free- slip to no- slip boundary conditions. The structural and statistical connections between these solutions and turbulent flows are illustrated. Parametric studies are performed and the parameters leading to the lowest onset Reynolds numbers are determined. In all cases, the lowest onset Reynolds number corresponds to spanwise periods of about 100 wall units. In particular, the rigid- free plane Poiseuille flow traveling wave arises at Re-tau = 44.2 for L-x(+) = 273.7 and L-z(+) = 105.5, in excellent agreement with observations of the streak spacing. A simple one- dimensional map is proposed to illustrate the possible nature of the hard'' transition to shear turbulence and connections with the unstable exact coherent structures. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
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