Coherent structures in Newtonian and viscoelastic turbulent planar jets.

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Title: Coherent structures in Newtonian and viscoelastic turbulent planar jets.
Authors: Amor, Christian1, Corrochano, Adrián2, Soligo, Giovanni1,3, Le Clainche, Soledad2, Rosti, Marco Edoardo1 marco.rosti@oist.jp
Source: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 6/10/2026, Vol. 1036, p1-31. 31p.
Subjects: Coherent structures, Viscoelastic materials, Flow instability, Matrix decomposition, Viscoelasticity, Newtonian fluids, Turbulent jets (Fluid dynamics), Turbulence
Abstract: The addition of a small amount of long-chain polymers confers viscoelastic properties to Newtonian flows. The resulting non-Newtonian solution now exhibits a different dynamics, such as enhanced mixing at low Reynolds number, where elastic instabilities can trigger elastic turbulence even though inertial turbulence is absent. Here, we study this phenomenon in viscoelastic planar jets and, in particular, we do it from the perspective of coherent structures to understand how elastic turbulence is triggered and sustained, which remain barely explored in this set-up. We introduce the spatio-temporal Koopman decomposition for extracting the dominant flow patterns, and we compare them with those from Newtonian planar jets at high Reynolds number. Global flow structures are similar between jets, with low-frequency streaks and high-frequency wave packets dominating the turbulent dynamics. However, structures are strikingly different in the near field, where elasticity-driven streaks affect the dynamics in the potential core of the viscoelastic planar jet, modifying the bulk flow and interacting with the flow instability. The analysis of the polymer field reveals stretched polymer filaments and centre-mode structures, which support the implication of the near-field streaks sustaining elastic turbulence in three-dimensional viscoelastic planar jets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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