Flow Instability: General Theory

Presentations

• Symmetries of the linearized Navier-Stokes equation and their impact on the eigenvalue spectrum of stability theory

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 8:00 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 8:13 AM

  Presenters

  • Martin Oberlack

    • Technische Universitat Darmstadt

  Authors

  • Martin Oberlack

    • Technische Universitat Darmstadt

  • Kilian Wilhelm

    • Technische Universität Darmstadt

  • Simon Görtz

    • Tu Darmstadt
    • Technische Universität Darmstadt

  • Johannes Heinrich Conrad

    • TU Darmstadt
    • Technische Universität Darmstadt

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• Multiscale spatial quasilinear wake modeling

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 8:13 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 8:26 AM

  Presenters

  • Greg P Chini

    • University of New Hampshire

  Authors

  • Greg P Chini

    • University of New Hampshire

  • Remil Mushthaq

    • University of New Hampshire

  • Narinder Singh

    • University of New Hampshire

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• A dynamically-consistent framework for mean flow stability and resolvent analysis

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 8:26 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 8:39 AM

  Publication: A manuscript of the same name is planned for submission to PRF

  Presenters

  • Christopher M Douglas

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Christopher M Douglas

    • Duke University

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• Statistical evolution of non-Gaussian initial disturbances under transient growth

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 8:39 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 8:52 AM

  Presenters

  • Saarthak Gupta

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Saarthak Gupta

    • University of Michigan

  • James H Paulson

    • University of Michigan

  • Peter Keaton Frame

    • University of Michigan

  • Aaron S. Towne

    • University of Michigan

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• Can minimal absorbing zones predict turbulent mean profiles?

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 8:52 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 9:05 AM

  Publication: A paper titled "Variational Determination of Minimal Absorbing Zones in Incompressible Shear Flows" will be submitted to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and posted on arXiv shortly.

  Presenters

  • Péter T Nagy

    • Budapest University of Technology and Economics

  Authors

  • Péter T Nagy

    • Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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• Subcritical 3D modes employing Briggs’ method – exemplified using plane Couette flow

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 9:05 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 9:18 AM

  Publication: M. Oberlack, K. V. Wilhelm, S. Görtz, J. Conrad, A. Yalcin, L. De
  Broeck, and Y. Wang: New subcritical oblique modes - on an extension of Squire's theorem for
  spatio-temporally evolving modes, under review at PRF

  Presenters

  • Kilian Wilhelm

    • Technische Universität Darmstadt

  Authors

  • Kilian Wilhelm

    • Technische Universität Darmstadt

  • Johannes Heinrich Conrad

    • TU Darmstadt
    • Technische Universität Darmstadt

  • Simon Görtz

    • Tu Darmstadt
    • Technische Universität Darmstadt

  • Martin Oberlack

    • Technische Universitat Darmstadt

  • Yongqi Wang

    • Technische Universität Darmstadt

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• Absolute Instability of Variable-Viscosity Jets with Counter-current Shear Flow

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 9:18 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 9:31 AM

  Presenters

  • Chujun Fu

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Chujun Fu

    • University of Minnesota

  • Vinod Srinivasan

    • University of Minnesota

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  Nov. 24, 2025, 9:31 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 9:44 AM

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• Bridging Lyapunov stability analysis and global linear stability analysis of the chaotic flow past two square cylinders

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 9:44 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 9:57 AM

  Presenters

  • Sidhartha Sahu

    • Imperial College London

  Authors

  • Sidhartha Sahu

    • Imperial College London

  • George Papadakis

    • Imperial College London

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• Low Reynolds number modal stability analysis of the 6-1 prolate spheroid

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 9:57 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 10:10 AM

  Presenters

  • Andras Szabo

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Andras Szabo

    • University of Michigan

  • Krishnan Mahesh

    • University of Michigan
    • University of Minnesota

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• The linear stability of superposed inviscid and viscous stagnation-point flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 10:10 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 10:23 AM

  Presenters

  • Yifeng Mao

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Yifeng Mao

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Stefan Gregory Llewellyn Smith

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Strato-rotational instability in Rayleigh-stable regimes

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 10:23 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 10:36 AM

  Publication: [1] Park, Billant, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 725, 262-280 (2013)
  [2] Park, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1010, A3 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Junho Park

    • Coventry University

  Authors

  • Junho Park

    • Coventry University

  • Jacopo Gianfrani

    • Coventry University, UK and Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

  • Abhishek Kumar

    • Coventry University, UK

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• Numerical and experimental study of discrete trapped acoustic waves

  ORAL

  Nov. 24, 2025, 10:36 AM – Nov. 24, 2025, 10:49 AM

  Presenters

  • Brandon Chung Yuen Yeung

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Brandon Chung Yuen Yeung

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Michael Stavropoulos

    • Institut Pprime, CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ENSMA

  • Anton Lebedev

    • Institut Pprime, CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ENSMA

  • Damien Eysseric

    • Institut Pprime, CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ENSMA

  • Vincent Jaunet

    • Institut Pprime, CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ENSMA

  • Peter Jordan

    • Institut Pprime, CNRS-Université de Poitiers-ENSMA

  • Oliver T Schmidt

    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

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