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Hydrodynamic stability 2004
  • Part of graduate student course, Department of Mechanics
  • Lectures:   16/9     8-12, K52
  •                     30/9     8-12, L44
  •                     6/10     8-12, K51
  • Projects:  10/11     8-12, K52
  •                   17/11     8-12, E36


  • Book: Stability and Transition in Shear Flows
  • Further info on web
  •      www2.mech.kth.se/~henning
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Course on Stability and Transition
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Reynolds pipe flow experiment
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History of shear flow stability and transition
  • Reynolds pipe flow experiment (1883)


  • Rayleigh’s inflection point criterion (1887)


  • Orr (1907) Sommerfeld (1908) viscous eq.


  • Heisenberg (1924) viscous channel solution


  • Tollmien (1931) Schlichting (1933) viscous BL solution


  • Schubauer & Skramstad (1947) experimental TS-wave verification


  • Klebanoff, Tidstrom & Sargent (1962) 3D breakdown
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Bypass transition
  • High and low speed streaks in the streamwise direction


  • Transition due to free-stream turbulence


  • Klebanoff (1977) modes,    Tu > 0.5% in BL


  • Subcritical transition in Poiseuille and Couette flows
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Disturbance equations
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Parallel shear flows:
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Parallel shear flows, cont
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Orr-Sommerfeld and Squire equations
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Interpretation of modal results
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Interpretation of modal results, cont.
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Squire’s transformation
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Squire’s theorem
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Inviscid disturbances
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Rayleigh’s inflection point criterion
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Inviscid algebraic instability
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Lift-up effect
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Critical Layer
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Plane Poiseuille flow
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A, P, S- Eigenfunctions for PPF
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Blasius boundary layer
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Continuous spectrum
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Critical Reynolds numbers
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The intial value problem (IVP)
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A simple eigenfunction expansion
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Transient growth
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Model with non-orthogonal eigenfunctions
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General formulation of viscous IVP
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Disturbance measure
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Adjoint OS-SQ system
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Biorthogonality
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Component form of adjoint
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Solution of IVP using eigenfunction expansions
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Discrete formulation
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Discrete formulation, cont.
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Maximum amplification
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2D PPF: envelope and selected IC
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2D PPF: dependence on N
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3D PPF and Blasius flow, Re=1000
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Optimal disturbances PPF, Re=1000
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The forced problem and the resolvent
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Discrete formulation
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Maximum response to forcing
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Pseudospectra, resolvents and sensitivity
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PPF: resolvents, growth and forcing
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PPF: resolvents, growth and forcing
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Re-dependence of growth and response
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Re-dependence, cont.
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Re-dependence of Gmax for PPF
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Re-dependence of Gmax and Rmax