Variational bound on energy dissipation in turbulent shear flow

Details Variational bound on energy dissipation in turbulent shear flow Variational bound on energy dissipation in turbulent shear flow

1998-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9804275v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4170 (1997)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4170

We present numerical solutions to the extended Doering-Constantin variational principle for upper bounds on the energy dissipation rate in plane Couette flow, bridging the entire range from low to asymptotically high Reynolds numbers. Our variational bound exhibits structure, namely a pronounced minimum at intermediate Reynolds numbers, and recovers the Busse bound in the asymptotic regime. The most notable feature is a bifurcation of the minimizing wavenumbers, giving rise to simple scaling of the optimized variational parameters, and of the upper bound, with the Reynolds number.

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