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SYMMETRY OF VORTICES IN TRANSITION OF PLANE COUETTE FLOW AT MODERATE REYNOLDS NUMBER

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The sho oting metho d, which was established originally as a to ol to nd out an unstable steady solution of sub critical shear flows (cf. J. Phys. So c. Jpn. 70, 703 [1] ), is applied to outline a structural asp ect of laminar-turbulent transition of minimal plane Couette flow at the mo derate Reynolds number. By adopt as initial conditions the points on the plane in phase space spanned by three distinct exact steady solutions, including the Hairpin Vortex Solution (HVS, cf. Phys.Rev.Lett.102,114501 (2009) ), a plenty of trial calculations based on the method are carried out. The result implies that HVS is on the boundary separating the laminar and the turbulent attractors of the plane Couette flow, and that one of the unstable manifolds of HVS constitutes the boundary. Moreover, the asymptotic behaviour of HVS at higher Reynolds number is investigated, which enables us to quantify the role of HVS in the laminar-turbulent transition of Plane Couette flow at the moderate Reynolds number.

Author(s):

Tomoaki Itano    
Kansai Univ.
Japan

Sotos Generalis    
Aston Univ.
United Kingdom

Takahiro Ninomiya    
Kansai Univ.
Japan

Takeshi Akinaga    
Aston Univ.
United Kingdom

Masako Sugihara-Seki    
Kansai Univ.
Japan