On the secondary instability of Taylor-Görtler vortices to Tollmien-Schlichting waves in fully developed flows

DOI10.1017/S0022112088000229zbMath0643.76037MaRDI QIDQ3786123

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Publication date: 1988

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

zbMATH Keywords

concentric cylindersTollmien-Schlichting wavesthree-dimensional wavesTaylor-Görtler vorticesexternal-boundary-layer problemfully nonlinear Taylor-Görtler vorticessmall-amplitude Tollmien-Schlichting waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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The linear stability of plane Couette flow with a compliant boundary ⋮ On the non‐existence of periodic neutral‐wave solutions to a complex‐valued periodic differential equation ⋮ The strong nonlinear interaction of Tollmien–Schlichting waves and Taylor–Görtler vortices in curved channel flow ⋮ On the Generation of Mean Flows by the Interaction of Görtler Vortices and Tollmien‐Schlichting Waves in Curved Channel Flows

Cites Work

• A numerical study of wide-gap Taylor vortices
• The linear development of Görtler vortices in growing boundary layers
• Numerical investigation of supercritical Taylor-vortex flow for a wide gap
• Effect of streamwise vortices on Tollmien-Schlichting waves
• Taylor—Gortler vortices in fully developed or boundary-layer flows: linear theory

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