On the spectral instability of parallel shear flows
Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications (2014-2015), Exposé no. 22, 14 p.

This short note is to announce our recent results [2,3] which provide a complete mathematical proof of the viscous destabilization phenomenon, pointed out by Heisenberg (1924), C.C. Lin and Tollmien (1940s), among other prominent physicists. Precisely, we construct growing modes of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations about general stationary shear flows in a bounded channel (channel flows) or on a half-space (boundary layers), for sufficiently large Reynolds number $R\to \infty$. Such an instability is linked to the emergence of Tollmien-Schlichting waves in describing the early stage of the transition from laminar to turbulent flows.

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Grenier, Emmanuel; Guo, Yan; Nguyen, Toan T. On the spectral instability of parallel shear flows. Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications (2014-2015), Exposé no. 22, 14 p. doi : 10.5802/slsedp.82. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/slsedp.82/

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