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Internal waves in sheared flows: lower bound of the vorticity growth and propagation discontinuities in the parameter space

Internal waves in sheared flows: lower bound of the vorticity growth and propagation discontinuities in the parameter space
Internal waves in sheared flows: lower bound of the vorticity growth and propagation discontinuities in the parameter space

This study provides sufficient conditions for the temporal monotonic decay of enstrophy for two-dimensional perturbations traveling in the incompressible, viscous, plane Poiseuille, and Couette flows. Extension of Synge's procedure [J. L. Synge, Proc. Fifth Int. Congress Appl. Mech. 2, 326 (1938); Semicentenn. Publ. Am. Math. Soc. 2, 227 (1938)] to the initial-value problem allow us to find the region of the wave-number-Reynolds-number map where the enstrophy of any initial disturbance cannot grow. This region is wider than that of the kinetic energy. We also show that the parameter space is split into two regions with clearly distinct propagation and dispersion properties.

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Fraternale, Federico
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Domenicale, Loris
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Staffilani, Gigliola
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Tordella, Daniela
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Fraternale, Federico
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Domenicale, Loris
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Staffilani, Gigliola
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Tordella, Daniela
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Fraternale, Federico, Domenicale, Loris, Staffilani, Gigliola and Tordella, Daniela (2018) Internal waves in sheared flows: lower bound of the vorticity growth and propagation discontinuities in the parameter space. Physical Review E, 97 (6), [063102]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063102).

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This study provides sufficient conditions for the temporal monotonic decay of enstrophy for two-dimensional perturbations traveling in the incompressible, viscous, plane Poiseuille, and Couette flows. Extension of Synge's procedure [J. L. Synge, Proc. Fifth Int. Congress Appl. Mech. 2, 326 (1938); Semicentenn. Publ. Am. Math. Soc. 2, 227 (1938)] to the initial-value problem allow us to find the region of the wave-number-Reynolds-number map where the enstrophy of any initial disturbance cannot grow. This region is wider than that of the kinetic energy. We also show that the parameter space is split into two regions with clearly distinct propagation and dispersion properties.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 8 June 2018
Published date: 8 June 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 424836
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/424836
ISSN: 2470-0045
PURE UUID: dbf202fb-f9a8-4cd9-9a13-5115ece7740d

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Date deposited: 05 Oct 2018 11:49
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 12:07

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Author: Federico Fraternale
Author: Loris Domenicale
Author: Gigliola Staffilani
Author: Daniela Tordella

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