Lagha, M.; Manneville, P. - In: The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and … 58 (2007) 4, pp. 433-447
The Galerkin method is used to derive a realistic model of plane Couette flow in terms of partial differential equations governing the space-time dependence of the amplitude of a few cross-stream modes. Numerical simulations show that it reproduces the globally sub-critical behavior typical of...