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Title: Transition to turbulence, small disturbances, and sensitivity analysis I: a motivating problem
Author (s): Singler, John
Department/Lab Affiliations: Mathematics & Statistics
Keywords: Frechet differentiability
nonnormality
sensitivity analysis
sensitivity equations
small disturbances
transition to turbulence
Subject Terms: Burgers equation.
Navier-Stokes equations.
Issue Date: 2008-01
Publisher: Elsevier
Citation: Singler, J. "Transition to Turbulence, Small Disturbances, and Sensitivity Analysis I: A Motivating Problem," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 337, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1425-1441.
Abstract: For over 100 years, researchers have attempted to predict transition to turbulence in fluid flows by analyzing the spectrum of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. However, for many simple flows this approach fails to match experimental results. Recently, new scenarios for transition have been proposed that are based on the interaction of the linearized equations of motion with small disturbances to the flow system. These new “mostly linear” theories have increased our understanding of the transition process, but the role of nonlinearity has not been explored in detail. This paper is the first of a two part work in which sensitivity analysis is used to study the effects of small disturbances on transition to turbulence. In this part, we study a highly sensitive one dimensional Burgers’ equation as a motivating problem. Sensitivity analysis is used to predict the large changes in solutions in the presence of a small disturbance. Also, sensitivity analysis is shown to provide more information about the disturbed nonlinear problem than a purely linear analysis of the problem. In the second part of this work, this analysis will be extended to the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations to show that small disturbances have great potential to trigger transition to turbulence.
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titleTransition to turbulence, small disturbances, and sensitivity analysis I: a motivating problem
contributor.authorSingler, John
contributor.deptlabMathematics & Statistics
contributor.sponsorAir Force Office of Scientific Research
contributor.sponsorDARPA Special Projects Office
subjectFrechet differentiability
subjectnonnormality
subjectsensitivity analysis
subjectsensitivity equations
subjectsmall disturbances
subjecttransition to turbulence
subject.LCSHBurgers equation.
subject.LCSHNavier-Stokes equations.
date.issued2008-01
publisherElsevier
identifier.citationSingler, J. "Transition to Turbulence, Small Disturbances, and Sensitivity Analysis I: A Motivating Problem," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 337, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1425-1441.
identifier.pub.URI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.07.031
description.abstractFor over 100 years, researchers have attempted to predict transition to turbulence in fluid flows by analyzing the spectrum of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. However, for many simple flows this approach fails to match experimental results. Recently, new scenarios for transition have been proposed that are based on the interaction of the linearized equations of motion with small disturbances to the flow system. These new “mostly linear” theories have increased our understanding of the transition process, but the role of nonlinearity has not been explored in detail. This paper is the first of a two part work in which sensitivity analysis is used to study the effects of small disturbances on transition to turbulence. In this part, we study a highly sensitive one dimensional Burgers’ equation as a motivating problem. Sensitivity analysis is used to predict the large changes in solutions in the presence of a small disturbance. Also, sensitivity analysis is shown to provide more information about the disturbed nonlinear problem than a purely linear analysis of the problem. In the second part of this work, this analysis will be extended to the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations to show that small disturbances have great potential to trigger transition to turbulence.
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