Turbulence lifetimes: what can we learn from the physics of glasses?

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2012-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/1202.5635v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages, 4 figures

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In this note, we critically discuss the issue of the possible finiteness of the turbulence lifetime in subcritical transition to turbulence in shear flows, which attracted a lot of interest recently. We briefly review recent experimental and numerical results, as well as theoretical proposals, and compare the difficulties arising in assessing this issue in subcritical shear flow with that encountered in the study of the glass transition. In order to go beyond the purely methodological similarities, we further elaborate on this analogy and propose a qualitative mapping between these two apparently unrelated situations, which could possibly foster new directions of research in subcritical shear flows.

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