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A note on disturbances in slightly supercritical plane Poiseuille flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Christopher K. W. Tam
Affiliation:
Kármán Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Jet Propulsion, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Abstract

The evolution of disturbances after a laminar, slightly supercritical flow between parallel planes is disturbed is considered as an initial-value problem. An asymptotic solution of the disturbances for large time possesses the same characteristic features as the turbulent spots observed by Emmons (1951).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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