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Investigations of the mechanisms underlying bypass transition are presented, and it is shown that a linear growth mechanism is required for energy growth. In shear flows such a mechanism is identified in the rapid transient growth of streaks produced by the three-dimensional lift-up effect. A number of transition scenarios utilizing this transient growth are discussed: Streak growth and breakdown, oblique transition and transition from localized disturbances. It is also demonstrated that the transition scenarios utilizing transient growth give the lowest threshold energies for initial disturbances causing transition.
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Henningson, D. (1995). Bypass Transition and Linear Growth Mechanisms. In: Benzi, R. (eds) Advances in Turbulence V. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0457-9_36
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