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Conditions for validity of mean flow stability analysis. (English) Zbl 1422.76070
Summary: This article provides theoretical conditions for the use and meaning of a stability analysis around a mean flow. As such, it may be considered as an extension of the works by B. J. McKeon and A. S. Sharma [ibid. 658, 336–382 (2010; Zbl 1205.76138)] to non-parallel flows and by S. E. Turton, L. S. Tuckerman and D. Barkley [“Prediction of frequencies in thermosolutal convection from mean flows”, Phys. Rev. E (3) 91, No. 4, Article ID 043009, 10 p. (2015; doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.043009)] to broadband flows. Considering a Reynolds decomposition of the flow field, the spectral (or temporal Fourier) mode of the fluctuation field is found to be equal to the action on a turbulent forcing term by the resolvent operator arising from linearisation about the mean flow. The main result of the article states that if, at a particular frequency, the dominant singular value of the resolvent is much larger than all others and if the turbulent forcing at this frequency does not display any preferential direction toward one of the suboptimal forcings, then the spectral mode is directly proportional to the dominant optimal response mode of the resolvent at this frequency. Such conditions are generally met in the case of weakly non-parallel open flows exhibiting a convectively unstable mean flow. The spatial structure of the singular mode may in these cases be approximated by a local spatial stability analysis based on parabolised stability equations (PSE). We have also shown that the frequency spectrum of the flow field at any arbitrary location of the domain may be predicted from the frequency evolution of the dominant optimal response mode and the knowledge of the frequency spectrum at one or more points. Results are illustrated in the case of a high Reynolds number turbulent backward facing step flow.

##### MSC:
 76Exx Hydrodynamic stability 76Fxx Turbulence
##### Keywords:
instability; separated flows; turbulent flows
##### Software:
elsA; ARPACK; MUMPS
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