The critical layer in pipe flow at high Reynolds number

Details The critical layer in pipe flow at high Reynolds number The critical layer in pipe flow at high Reynolds number

2008-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/0809.1498v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

Scientific paper

10.1098/rsta.2008.0225

We report the computation of a family of traveling wave solutions of pipe flow up to $Re=75000$. As in all lower-branch solutions, streaks and rolls feature prominently in these solutions. For large $Re$, these solutions develop a critical layer away from the wall. Although the solutions are linearly unstable, the two unstable eigenvalues approach 0 as $Re\to\infty$ at rates given by $Re^{-0.41}$ and $Re^{-0.87}$ -- surprisingly, the solutions become more stable as the flow becomes less viscous. The formation of the critical layer and other aspects of the $Re\to\infty$ limit could be universal to lower-branch solutions of shear flows. We give implementation details of the GMRES-hookstep and Arnoldi iterations used for computing these solutions and their spectra, while pointing out the new aspects of our method.

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