Subcritical Transition to Turbulence in Plane Channel Flows
- 22 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 45 (12), 989-993
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.45.989
Abstract
A linear three-dimensional instability mechanism is presented that predicts Reynolds numbers for transition to turbulence in plane channel flows in good agreement with experiment.Keywords
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