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Regular patterns of turbulent and laminar fluid motion arise in plane Couette flow near the lowest Reynolds number for which turbulence can be sustained. We study these patterns using an extension of the minimal flow unit approach to simulations of channel flows pioneered by Jiménez and Moin. In our case computational domains are of minimal size in only two directions. The third direction is taken to be large. Furthermore, the long direction can be tilted at any prescribed angle to the streamwise direction. We report on different patterned states observed as a function of Reynolds number, imposed tilt, and length of the long direction. We compare our findings to observations in large aspect-ratio experiments.
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Barkley, D., Tuckerman, L.S. (2005). Turbulent-Laminar Patterns in Plane Couette Flow. In: Mullin, T., Kerswell, R. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Finite Amplitude Solutions. Fluid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4049-0_6
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