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Although the roll/streak structure is ubiquitous in pre-transitional wall-bounded shear flow, this structure is linearly stable if the idealization of laminar flow is made. Lacking an instability, the large transient growth of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-05 Brian F. Farrell , Petros J. Ioannou , Marios-Andreas Nikolaidis

The streamwise roll and streak structure (RSS) is prominent in observations of the planetary boundary layer in the atmosphere and ocean and in unstratified wall-bounded shear flows. Although the RSS in these systems is structurally similar,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-16 Eojin Kim , Brian F. Farrell

Planetary and magnetohydrodynamic drift-wave turbulence is observed to self-organize into large scale structures such as zonal jets and coherent vortices. In this Letter we present a non-equilibrium statistical theory, the Stochastic…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Nikolaos A. Bakas , Petros J. Ioannou

Streamwise roll circulations commonly observed in frontal regions are primary agents of momentum and tracer transport in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) both in the atmosphere and ocean. Traditionally, the formation of the streamwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Eojin Kim , Brian F. Farrell

Streamwise roll and streak structures (RSS) are prominent features observed in both atmospheric and oceanic planetary boundary layers (PBL) as well as in laboratory scale Wall bounded shear flows. Despite their structural similarity across…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-07 Eojin Kim , Brian F. Farrell

The perspective of statistical state dynamics (SSD) has recently been applied to the study of mechanisms underlying turbulence in various physical systems. An example implementation of SSD is the second order closure referred to as…

Turbulence in wall-bounded flows is characterized by stable statistics. Although, in many turbulent systems, this stable statistical state corresponds to a stable fixed point of an associated statistical state dynamics (SSD) closed at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-14 Brian F. Farrell , Petros J. Ioannou

In wall-bounded shear flow the primary coherent structure is the streamwise roll and streak (R-S). Absent of an associated instability the R-S has been ascribed to non-normality mediated interaction between the mean flow and perturbations.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-17 B. F. Farrell , P. J. Ioannou , M. -A. Nikolaidis

This thesis presents a newly developed theory for the formation and maintenance of eddy-driven jets in planetary turbulence. The novelty is that jet formation and maintenance is studied as a dynamics of the statistics of the flow rather…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Navid C. Constantinou

This paper reviews results from the study of wall-bounded turbulent flows using statistical state dynamics (SSD) that demonstrate the benefits of adopting this perspective for understanding turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows. The SSD…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-10 Brian F. Farrell , Dennice F. Gayme , Petros J. Ioannou

Stochastic Structural Stability Theory (S3T) provides analytical methods for understanding the emergence and equilibration of jets from the turbulence in planetary atmospheres based on the dynamics of the statistical mean state of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-20 Navid C. Constantinou , Brian F. Farrell , Petros J. Ioannou

The roll streak structure (RSS) is ubiquitous in shear flow turbulence and is fundamental to the dynamics of the self-sustaining process (SSP) maintaining the turbulent state. The formation and maintenance of the RSS in wall-bounded shear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-23 Eojin Kim , Brian F. Farrell

Planetary turbulent flows are observed to self-organize into large scale structures such as zonal jets and coherent vortices. One of the simplest models of planetary turbulence is obtained by considering a barotropic flow on a beta-plane…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Nikolaos A. Bakas , Petros J. Ioannou

The no-slip boundary condition results in a velocity shear forming in fluid flow near a solid surface. This shear flow supports the turbulence characteristic of fluid flow near boundaries at Reynolds numbers above $\approx1000$ by making…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-28 Brian F. Farrell , Petros J. Ioannou , Marios-Andreas Nikolaidis

Stochastic linear modelling proposed in Tissot, M\'emin & Cavalieri (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 912, 2021, A51) is based on classical conservation laws subject to a stochastic transport. Once linearised around the mean flow and expressed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-27 Gilles Tissot , André Cavalieri , Etienne Mémin

Although the roll-streak (R-S) is fundamentally involved in the dynamics of wall-turbulence, the physical mechanism responsible for its formation and maintenance remains controversial. In this work we investigate the dynamics maintaining…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Marios-Andreas Nikolaidis , Petros J. Ioannou , Brian F. Farrell

S3T (Stochastic Structural Stability Theory) employs a closure at second order to obtain the dynamics of the statistical mean turbulent state. When S3T is implemented as a coupled set of equations for the streamwise mean and perturbation…

A method is developed to estimate the properties of a global hydrodynamic instability in turbulent flows from measurement data of the limit-cycle oscillations. For this purpose, the flow dynamics are separated in deterministic contributions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-21 Moritz Sieber , C. Oliver Paschereit , Kilian Oberleithner

This article presents a modelling of the formation of spanwise vorticity in the turbulent streaks of the oblique bands and spots of transitional plane Couette flow. A functional model is designed to mimic the coherent flow in the streaks.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-10 Joran Rolland

This paper describes a study of the self-sustaining process in wall-turbulence based on a second order statistical state dynamics (SSD) model of Couette flow. SSD models with this form are referred to as S3T models and self-sustain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-28 Brian F. Farrell , Petros J. Ioannou
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