On the origin of streamwise vortices in a turbulent boundary layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112086000551zbMath0624.76069MaRDI QIDQ3026603

Pong Soo Jang, R. L. Gran, D. J. Benney

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

turbulent boundary layerstreamwise vorticeslow-momentum streaksmean secondary flowmean-velocity profile

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulence (76F99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Related Items

On sublayer streaks ⋮ Instability in turbulent shear flows with or without rotation ⋮ On a degeneracy of temporal secondary instability modes in Blasius boundary-layer flow ⋮ Hydrodynamic Stability and Turbulence: Beyond Transients to a Self‐Sustaining Process ⋮ Global numerical prediction of bursting frequency in turbulent boundary layers ⋮ A Mean Flow First Harmonic Theory for Hydrodynamic Instabilities ⋮ Amplification of coherent streaks in the turbulent Couette flow: an input–output analysis at low Reynolds number ⋮ Regeneration mechanism of streaks in near-wall quasi-2D turbulence ⋮ The minimal flow unit in near-wall turbulence ⋮ Characteristics of the leading Lyapunov vector in a turbulent channel flow ⋮ On the behaviour of organised disturbances in a turbulent boundary layer. ⋮ Homoclinic bifurcation in Blasius boundary-layer flow ⋮ Transition in shear flows. Nonlinear normality versus non-normal linearity ⋮ Characteristics of the instability developing in the turbulent flow in a plane channel ⋮ Direct resonance analysis and modeling for a turbulent boundary layer over a corrugated surface ⋮ Dynamics of streamwise rolls and streaks in turbulent wall-bounded shear flow ⋮ A theoretical model of the coherent structure in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer ⋮ On the etiology of shear layer vortices

Cites Work

• A non-linear theory for oscillations in a parallel flow
• On the structure of wall-bounded turbulent flows
• The Evolution of Disturbances in Shear Flows at High Reynolds Numbers
• A New Mechanism For Linear and Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Instability
• A numerical study of the temporal eigenvalue spectrum of the Blasius boundary layer
• The three-dimensional nature of boundary-layer instability
• A wave-guide model for turbulent shear flow
• On finite amplitude oscillations in laminar mixing layers