Robustness and Transition to Turbulence in Boundary Layer Flows
Abstract
Understanding the dynamics of transition to turbulence in shear flows has been a long standing problem, and although substantial progress has been made in various directions to this effect, there is still no consistent theory. As prt of AFOSR MURI project 'Uncertainty Management in Complex Systems' at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) with John Doyle as the principal investigator, a novel theory was developed on the transition to turbulence borrowing notions from control theory. This provides a promising framework that will help explain the various experimental observations of transition to turbulence. In order to make an accurate comparison between theory, computation and experiment, a boundary layer experiment was designed using state of the art, three-dimensional, instantaneous measurement techniques. In this report we discuss the details of the experiment and its connections with the ongoing theory and computations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA405611
Entities
People
- John Doyle
Organizations
- California Institute of Technology