2007/07/12 by Hua-Shu Dou, Dou, Hua-Shu
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0707.1775
9 pages; 5 pictures. Presented as: Hua-Shu Dou, Patterns generated during the transition to turbulence, IMS Workshop on BRAIDS, NUS, Singapore, June 18-22, 2007 http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/braids/abstracts.htm#hsdou
arxiv created 2007/08/03 · arxiv updated 2011/11/09
It is exactly proved that the classical Rayleigh Theorem on inflectional velocity instability is wrong which states that the necessary condition for instability of inviscid flow is the existence of an inflection point on the velocity profile. It is shown that the disturbance amplified in 2D inviscid flows is necessarily 3D. After the break down of T-S wave in 2D parallel flows, the disturbance becomes a type of spiral waves which proceed along the streamwise direction. This is just the origin of formation of streamwise vortices.