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On the decay of turbulence in plane Couette flow

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Upon decreasing the Reynolds number, plane Couette flow first forms alternately turbulent and laminar oblique bands out of featureless turbulence below some upper threshold Ret. These bands exist down to a global stability threshold Reg below which laminar flow ultimately prevails. We study the fragmentation and decay of these bands in systems that are extended enough for several bands to exist. We use direct numerical simulations appropriately tailored to deal with such large systems during long enough durations. We point out a two-stage process involving the rupture of a band and then its slow shrinking. Previous interpretations of turbulence decay in wall-bounded flows within the chaotic transient or spatiotemporal intermittency paradigms are discussed.
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hal-01025564 , version 1 (18-07-2014)

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Paul Manneville. On the decay of turbulence in plane Couette flow. Fluid Dynamics Research, 2011, 43 (6), pp.065501. ⟨10.1088/0169-5983/43/6/065501⟩. ⟨hal-01025564⟩
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