• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.224502
• Corpus ID: 23203360

Streamwise-localized solutions at the onset of turbulence in pipe flow.

@article{Avila2012StreamwiselocalizedSA,
  title={Streamwise-localized solutions at the onset of turbulence in pipe flow.},
  author={Marc Avila and Fernando Mellibovsky and N Roland and Bj{\"o}rn Hof},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2012},
  volume={110 22},
  pages={
          224502
        }
}

• M. Avila, F. Mellibovsky, +1 author B. Hof
• Published 2 December 2012
• Physics, Engineering
• Physical review letters

Although the equations governing fluid flow are well known, there are no analytical expressions that describe the complexity of turbulent motion. A recent proposition is that in analogy to low dimensional chaotic systems, turbulence is organized around unstable solutions of the governing equations which provide the building blocks of the disordered dynamics. We report the discovery of periodic solutions which just like intermittent turbulence are spatially localized and show that turbulent transients arise from one such solution branch.