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SUBCRITICAL TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE: A MODEL INSPIRED FROM THE PHYSICS OF GLASSES

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The present abstract is a brief summary of a recent work [8], where we discuss possible analogies between the subcritical
transition to turbulence in shear flows and the glass transition in supercooled liquids. We briefly review our motivations and the main
result we obtain from a simple model, inspired by the Random Energy Model, a standard model for the glass transition. We hope it will
foster yet unexplored directions of research in subcritical shear flows.

Author(s):

Olivier Dauchot    
EC2M - UMR Gulliver CNRS / ESPCI Paris-Tech
France

Eric Bertin    
Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon, CNRS,
France