Aging and memory of transitional turbulence

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Auteurs principaux: Mukund, Vasudevan, Paranjape, Chaitanya S., Sitte, Michael Philip, Yalnız, Gökhan, Hof, Björn
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author Mukund, Vasudevan
Paranjape, Chaitanya S.
Sitte, Michael Philip
Yalnız, Gökhan
Hof, Björn
author_facet Mukund, Vasudevan
Paranjape, Chaitanya S.
Sitte, Michael Philip
Yalnız, Gökhan
Hof, Björn
contents The recent classification of the onset of turbulence as a directed percolation (DP) phase transition has been applied to all major shear flows including pipe, channel, Couette and boundary layer flows. A cornerstone of the DP analogy is the memoryless (Poisson) property of turbulent sites. We here show that, for the classic case of channel flow, neither the decay nor the proliferation of turbulent stripes is memoryless. As demonstrated by a standard analysis of the respective survival curves, isolated channel stripes, in the immediate vicinity of the critical point, age. Consequently, the one to one mapping between turbulent stripes and active DP-sites is not fulfilled in this low Reynolds number regime. In addition, the interpretation of turbulence as a chaotic saddle with supertransient properties, the basis of recent theoretical progress, does not apply to individual localized stripes. The discrepancy between channel flow and the transition models established for pipe and Couette flow, illustrates that seemingly minor geometrical differences between flows can give rise to instabilities and growth mechanisms that fundamentally alter the nature of the transition to turbulence.
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spellingShingle Aging and memory of transitional turbulence
Mukund, Vasudevan
Paranjape, Chaitanya S.
Sitte, Michael Philip
Yalnız, Gökhan
Hof, Björn
Fluid Dynamics
The recent classification of the onset of turbulence as a directed percolation (DP) phase transition has been applied to all major shear flows including pipe, channel, Couette and boundary layer flows. A cornerstone of the DP analogy is the memoryless (Poisson) property of turbulent sites. We here show that, for the classic case of channel flow, neither the decay nor the proliferation of turbulent stripes is memoryless. As demonstrated by a standard analysis of the respective survival curves, isolated channel stripes, in the immediate vicinity of the critical point, age. Consequently, the one to one mapping between turbulent stripes and active DP-sites is not fulfilled in this low Reynolds number regime. In addition, the interpretation of turbulence as a chaotic saddle with supertransient properties, the basis of recent theoretical progress, does not apply to individual localized stripes. The discrepancy between channel flow and the transition models established for pipe and Couette flow, illustrates that seemingly minor geometrical differences between flows can give rise to instabilities and growth mechanisms that fundamentally alter the nature of the transition to turbulence.
title Aging and memory of transitional turbulence
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06537