Charting the State Space of Plane Couette Flow: Equilibria, Relative Equilibria, and Heteroclinic Connections

The study of turbulence has been dominated historically by a bottom-up approach, with a much stronger emphasis on the physical structure of flows than on that of the dynam- ical state space. Turbulence has traditionally been described in terms of various visually recognizable physical features, suc...

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Main Author: Halcrow, Jonathan
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24724