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On the stability of viscous plane Couette flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

J. W. Deardorff
J. W. Deardorff
Affiliation:
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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Abstract

The problem of the stability of plane Couette flow to infinitesimal disturbances is carried numerically to larger Reynolds numbers than heretofore. The flow is definitely stable up to R = 1430, although at Reynolds numbers in this vicinity plane Couette flow has been observed experimentally to be turbulent. Observations on boundary-layer instability suggest this to be the source of turbulence in plane Couette flow channels.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , April 1963 , pp. 623 - 630
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© 1963 Cambridge University Press

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