Summary
Experimental & theoretical observation of unstable coherent structures embedded in transitional turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows give us dynamical insights in the nature of this type of turbulence.
New perspectives:
- Computation of dynamical averages and transport properties - turbulent drag, velocity correlations, ... - predictions are exact, obtained by periodic orbit theory.
- Nonlinear control. A detailed geometry of the invariant solutions and their unstable manifolds: body forcing or boundary forcing algorithms can chaperon the turbulent fluid toward a desired state.
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