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====== Movies of plane Couette flow ====== | ====== Movies of plane Couette flow ====== | ||
- | These movies are designed to convey the main ideas of our research in plane Couette flow. | + | These movies are designed to convey the main ideas of my research in plane Couette flow. |
- | For more details, please see [[http://cns.physics.gatech.edu/~gibson/publications/index.html|our papers]]. | + | For more details, please see [[http://cns.physics.gatech.edu/~gibson/publications/index.html|my papers]]. |
===== Visualization scheme ===== | ===== Visualization scheme ===== | ||
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the top wall slides towards the back of the box, the bottom towards the front. | the top wall slides towards the back of the box, the bottom towards the front. | ||
- | The color in the picture above indicates the speed of the fluid in the direction of the | + | Arrows indicate in-plane velocity. The **color indicates the streamwise velocity**, that is, the speed of the fluid in the direction of the wall motion: |
- | moving walls: | + | |
* <html><span style="color:red"> Red </span></html> indicates fluid moving in the <html><span style="color:red"> positive </span></html> streamwise direction (<html><span style="color:red">away from</span></html> the viewer) | * <html><span style="color:red"> Red </span></html> indicates fluid moving in the <html><span style="color:red"> positive </span></html> streamwise direction (<html><span style="color:red">away from</span></html> the viewer) | ||
* <html><span style="color:blue"> Blue </span></html> indicates fluid moving in the <html> <span style="color:blue"> negative </span> </html> streamwise direction (<html><span style="color:blue">towards </span></html>the viewer) | * <html><span style="color:blue"> Blue </span></html> indicates fluid moving in the <html> <span style="color:blue"> negative </span> </html> streamwise direction (<html><span style="color:blue">towards </span></html>the viewer) | ||
- | The x,y,z directions are streamwise, wall-normal, and spanwise. | + | The x,y,z directions are streamwise, wall-normal, and spanwise. The rectangular cell is periodic in x and z, so that the front and back slices match, and the left and the right. |
====== Coherent structures in shear flows ====== | ====== Coherent structures in shear flows ====== | ||
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eigenfunctions of the orbits and so determine the linear stability of turbulent trajectories. The orbits also do quite | eigenfunctions of the orbits and so determine the linear stability of turbulent trajectories. The orbits also do quite | ||
well in capturing first and second-order statistics of the turbulent flow, i.e. the mean flow and Reynolds stresses. | well in capturing first and second-order statistics of the turbulent flow, i.e. the mean flow and Reynolds stresses. | ||
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