Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Laminar Fluid Flow. II. Fluctuating Squire Equation |
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Authors: | José M Ortiz de Zárate Jan V Sengers |
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Institution: | 1. Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Facultad de Física, Universidad Complutense, 28040, Madrid, Spain 2. Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Burgers Program for Fluid Dynamics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-8510, USA
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Abstract: | We use fluctuating hydrodynamics to evaluate the enhancement of thermally excited fluctuations in laminar fluid flow using plane Couette flow as a representative example. In a previous publication (J. Stat. Phys. 144:774, 2011) we derived the energy amplification arising from thermally excited wall-normal fluctuations by solving a fluctuating Orr-Sommerfeld equation. In the present paper we derive the energy amplification arising from wall-normal vorticity fluctuation by solving a fluctuating Squire equation. The thermally excited wall-normal vorticity fluctuations turn out to yield the dominant contribution to the energy amplification. In addition, we show that thermally excited streaks, even in the absence of any externally imposed perturbations, are present in laminar fluid flow. |
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