On hydrodynamic shear turbulence in Keplerian disks: via transient growth to bypass transition

Details On hydrodynamic shear turbulence in Keplerian disks: via transient growth to bypass transition On hydrodynamic shear turbulence in Keplerian disks: via transient growth to bypass transition

2003-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302258v1

Astron.Astrophys. 402 (2003) 401-408

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 1 figure, accepted in A & A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20030269

This paper deals with the problem of hydrodynamic shear turbulence in non-magnetized Keplerian disks. We wish to draw attention to a route to hydrodynamic turbulence which seems to be little known by the astrophysical community, but which has been intensively discussed among fluid dynamicists during the past decade. In this so-called `bypass' concept for the onset of turbulence, perturbations undergo a transient growth, and they may reach an amplitude that is sufficiently large to allow positive feedback through nonlinear interactions. This transient growth is linear in nature, and thus it differs in principle from the well-known nonlinear instability. We describe the type of perturbations that according to this process are the most likely to lead to turbulence, namely non-axisymmetric vortex mode perturbations in the two dimensional limit. We show that the apparently inhibiting action of the Coriolis force on the dynamics of such vortical perturbations is substantially diminished due to the pressure perturbations, contrary to current opinion. We stress the similarity of the turbulent processes in Keplerian disks and in Cartesian flows and conclude that the prevalent skepticism of the astrophysical community on the occurrence of hydrodynamic shear turbulence in such disks is not founded.

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