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arxiv: 2604.20526 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-22 · ⚛️ physics.flu-dyn

Subharmonic instability of large-scale wavy structures in two-dimensional channels

An-Xiao Han , Peng-Yu Duan , Ming-Ze Ma , Xi Chen This is my paper

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classification ⚛️ physics.flu-dyn
keywords 2D channel flowlarge-scale wavy structuressubharmonic instabilityFloquet analysisinverse energy cascadeturbulence generationhigh Reynolds numbersecondary instability
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At high Reynolds numbers, large-scale wavy structures in two-dimensional channels become unstable through a subharmonic torsional mode that grows and splits them into multiple wave trains.

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The paper examines whether the prominent large-scale wavy structures that form in two-dimensional channel flows via inverse energy cascades can themselves generate turbulence. Direct numerical simulations at Re=3000 show these structures are linearly stable, but at Re=200000 a Floquet analysis uncovers a subharmonic torsional mode with positive growth rate that shifts the waves by half a wavelength. Temporal reconstruction demonstrates the mode deforms the structures, splits them into multiple trains, and causes out-of-phase evolution. This mechanism supplies a route to turbulence at large Reynolds numbers that differs from classical Tollmien-Schlichting waves.

Core claim

At Re = 200000 the large-scale wavy structures extracted from DNS via singular value decomposition support a subharmonic torsional instability mode with growth rate λ_r = 0.18. This mode produces a half-wavelength shift, deforms the primary waves, splits them into multiple wave trains, and drives opposite-phase evolution. The same structures remain linearly stable at Re = 3000, consistent with the laminar-like flow field observed in that regime. The subharmonic mode thereby offers a distinct pathway for turbulence generation in two-dimensional channels beyond the transitional regime near Re ≈ 10000.

What carries the argument

Floquet-based secondary instability analysis applied to singular-value-decomposition-extracted large-scale wavy structures, which identifies the subharmonic torsional mode responsible for the half-wavelength shift and positive growth.

If this is right

  • The instability is absent below the transitional regime and appears only at sufficiently high Reynolds numbers such as 200000.
  • The unstable mode deforms the wavy structures and splits them into multiple wave trains that evolve out of phase.
  • This subharmonic process supplies a concrete mechanism for breaking down large-scale coherence and generating turbulence in two-dimensional channels.
  • The quantified growth rate of the mode reaches λ_r = 0.18 at Re = 200000.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same subharmonic torsional mechanism may operate in other two-dimensional systems that develop large-scale coherent structures through inverse cascades, such as geophysical or plasma flows.
  • Controlled introduction of half-wavelength perturbations in high-Re channel simulations could directly measure the predicted growth rate and splitting behavior.
  • The instability may couple with or be modulated by the small-scale fluctuations that the SVD filtering removes, suggesting a possible interaction between scales in the full turbulent state.

Load-bearing premise

The singular value decomposition accurately isolates the dominant large-scale wavy structures so that the subsequent Floquet analysis captures the true instability mechanism without significant contamination from unresolved small-scale fluctuations.

What would settle it

A high-Re direct numerical simulation that imposes a half-wavelength perturbation on the extracted wavy structures and observes no exponential growth at a rate near 0.18, or no subsequent splitting into out-of-phase wave trains, would falsify the instability claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.20526 by An-Xiao Han, Ming-Ze Ma, Peng-Yu Duan, Xi Chen.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Sketch of the computational domain. Here, ℎ is the half height of the channel, and 𝐿 is the length in the streamwise direction. 2. Methods 2.1. Simulations The 2D incompressible flow between two parallel plates driven by a pressure difference is considered. The computational domain is shown in figure 1. The perturbation equation is: 𝜕𝑡u + (U0 + u) · ∇(U0 + u) = −∇𝑝 + 1 𝑅𝑒 ∇ 2u, (2.1) ∇ · u = 0. (2.2) Here,… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Contours of initial perturbation velocity u0 = (𝑢0, 𝑣0). (a) The streamwise initial perturbation velocity 𝑢0/𝑈𝑚. (b) The initial perturbation velocity in the wall-normal direction 𝑣0/𝑈𝑚 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: 𝐶𝑓 varying with 𝑅𝑒 in 2D channel flows. The solid line represents the 2D friction law 𝑅𝑒−1/2 . Black squares represent DNS data from Falkovich & Vladimirova (2018), yellow crosses are experimental data from Kellay et al. (2012) and brown crosses are from Tran et al. (2010b). The two red triangles indicate the present DNS results obtained at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000 and 𝑅𝑒 = 200000. The fully developed flow fields are sho… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Velocity contours of fully developed 2D channel flows. (a) The dimensionless streamwise velocity 𝑢/𝑈𝑚 at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000. (b) The dimensionless wall-normal velocity 𝑣/𝑈𝑚 at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000. (c) 𝑢/𝑈𝑚 at 𝑅𝑒 = 200000. (d) 𝑣/𝑈𝑚 at 𝑅𝑒 = 200000. (a) (b) (c) (d) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: First four rank SVD approximations on its dimensionless streamwise velocity 𝑢/𝑈𝑚 at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000 (a): rank-1 approximation (b): rank-2 approximation (c): rank-3 approximation (d): rank-4 approximation. velocity field represented by a matrix 𝐴 ∈ R 𝑚×𝑛 , the SVD is defined as: 𝐴 = 𝑃𝛴𝑄𝑇 (2.5) where 𝑃 ∈ R 𝑚×𝑚 and 𝑄 ∈ R 𝑛×𝑛 are orthogonal matrices containing the left and right singular vectors, respectively, and 𝛴… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: First four rank SVD approximations on its dimensionless streamwise velocity 𝑣/𝑈𝑚 at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000 (a): rank-1 approximation (b): rank-2 approximation (c): rank-3 approximation (d): rank-4 approximation. rank-1 rank-2 rank-3 rank-4 𝑢/𝑈𝑚 91.52% 99.03% 99.89% 99.99% 𝑣/𝑈𝑚 98.71% 99.64% 99.98% 99.99% [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: First four rank SVD approximations on its dimensionless streamwise velocity 𝑢/𝑈𝑚 at 𝑅𝑒 = 200000 (a): rank-1 approximation (b): rank-2 approximation (c): rank-3 approximation (d): rank-4 approximation majority of the kinetic energy, while higher-order modes represent low-energy velocity fluctuations and numerical noise. The rank-2 approximation already captures the vast majority of the energy. However, for … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: First four rank SVD approximations on its dimensionless normal velocity 𝑣/𝑈𝑚 at 𝑅𝑒 = 200000 (a): rank-1 approximation (b): rank-2 approximation (c): rank-3 approximation (d): rank-4 approximation . rank-1 rank-2 rank-3 rank-4 𝑢/𝑈𝑚 80.12% 96.07% 98.82% 99.77% 𝑣/𝑈𝑚 94.23% 97.86% 98.97% 99.91% [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Each of the first four SVD modes of 𝑢 and 𝑣 at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000. (a) From top to bottom are the first, second, third, and fourth SVD modes of the streamwise velocity 𝑢/𝑈𝑚, respectively. (b) From top to bottom are the first, second, third, and fourth SVD modes of the normal velocity 𝑣/𝑈𝑚, respectively. 3. Secondary instability Although the present investigation is restricted to a two-dimensional configuration, it … view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Eigenvalue spectrum at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000 by scaling the traveling wave term 𝑢 2𝐷 and 𝑣 2𝐷 with a small parameter 𝜖 ∼ 10−6 The computed eigenvalue spectrum is shown in figure 11 and figure 12. The horizontal axis represents the real part of teh eigenvalues, and the vertical axis represents the imaginary part. It can be seen that at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000, the eigenvalue spectrum of the linear instability for the large-scale tr… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Eigenvalue spectrum at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Eigenvalue spectrum at 𝑅𝑒 = 200000 In summary, at 𝑅𝑒 = 3000, the large-scale traveling wavy structure formed by adding perturbations and undergoing nonlinear saturation in the 2D channel is linearly stable, and over time, this structure remains stable in the flow field. At 𝑅𝑒 = 200000, this large-scale traveling wavy structure is linearly unstable, with a growth rate of 𝜆𝑟 = 0.18. The only unstable mode f… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Evolution of the dimensionless normal velocity 𝑣/𝑈𝑚 of the unstable mode at 𝑅𝑒 = 200000 over a period of nondimensional time 𝑡ˆ = 𝑡 · 𝑈𝑚/ℎ. (a) 𝑡ˆ = 0; (b) 𝑡ˆ = 9; (c) 𝑡ˆ = 9.7; (d) 𝑡ˆ = 10.8; (e) 𝑡ˆ = 11.3; (f) 𝑡ˆ = 15. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Temporal evolution of the streamlines of the unstable mode at 𝑅𝑒 = 200000 over a period of nondimensional time 𝑡ˆ = 𝑡 · 𝑈𝑚/ℎ. (a) 𝑡ˆ = 0; (b) 𝑡ˆ = 9; (c) 𝑡ˆ = 9.7; (d) 𝑡ˆ = 10.8; (e) 𝑡ˆ = 11.3; (f) 𝑡ˆ = 15. From a mathematical perspective, this evolution is governed by the modal decomposition and coupling mechanisms inherent to secondary instability theory. The perturbation velocity field can be expressed… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

A particular interest on two-dimensional turbulence is the inverse energy cascade from small to large sales, which leads to an energy condensation accompanied by the formation of large-scale vortical structures. Indeed, such a phenomenon is observed in the two-dimensional channel (2DCH) with large Reynolds numbers, where prominent large-scale wavy structures play a central role in the momentum and energy transfer across the inhomogeneous wall-normal direction \citep{Falkovich2018}. Yet, the instability of these wavy structures remains poorly understood, and it is unknown whether they have the capacity to generate turbulence. To address this, we first conduct the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of Navier-Stokes equations for 2DCH, then extract the large-scale wavy structures through the singular value decomposition, and finally perform a Floquet-based secondary instability analysis. Two bulk Reynolds numbers are examined in particular, i.e. $Re = 3000$ and $Re = 200000$, which lie on opposite sides of the transitional regime near $Re \approx 10000$ and cover the previously reported simulation domain. At $Re = 3000$, the large-scale wavy structure is found to be linearly stable, consistent with the laminar-like DNS flow field. However, at $Re = 200000$, a subharmonic torsional mode is identified, which leads to a definite growth rate ($\lambda_r = 0.18$) for the wavy structures with a half wave-length shift. Temporal reconstruction shows that this unstable mode deforms and splits into multiple wave trains and evolves in the opposite phase. Compared to the TS (Tollmien-Schlichting) wave of laminar flow, the subharmonic mode found here offers a novel understanding for the generation of turbulence in larger Reynolds number two-dimensional channels.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript performs DNS of 2D channel flow at Re=3000 and Re=200000, extracts the dominant large-scale wavy structures via SVD, and subjects them to Floquet secondary instability analysis. At the lower Re the extracted structure is linearly stable, consistent with the laminar-like DNS; at the higher Re a subharmonic torsional mode is reported with growth rate λ_r=0.18. Temporal reconstruction of the unstable eigenmode shows deformation, splitting into multiple wave trains, and opposite-phase evolution, which the authors propose as a route to turbulence generation in high-Re 2D channels.

Significance. If the SVD mode can be shown to constitute a sufficiently clean base flow, the identification of a subharmonic torsional instability supplies a concrete, falsifiable mechanism linking the inverse-cascade condensate to the onset of small-scale turbulence. The pipeline (DNS → SVD → Floquet) is standard and reproducible in principle; the concrete growth-rate value and the half-wavelength shift provide clear targets for future verification.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2 and §4.1] §3.2 and §4.1: the claim that the leading SVD mode furnishes a clean, steady base flow for the Floquet operator is load-bearing for the reported λ_r=0.18. At Re=200000 the inverse cascade populates a broad range of scales; without reported energy spectra of the retained SVD mode, residual of the steady Navier-Stokes equations on that mode, or comparison against a filtered base flow, it is impossible to rule out contamination by unresolved fluctuations that would alter the linear operator and the extracted growth rate.
  2. [§4.2] §4.2, Floquet dispersion relation: the subharmonic character and the precise value λ_r=0.18 are presented without accompanying resolution or convergence tests (grid spacing, number of retained SVD modes, Floquet truncation). Because the low-Re case is stable, it does not probe the same scale-separation issue; an independent check at Re=200000 is required to establish that the growth rate is not an artifact of the numerical representation of the base flow.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract, line 3: 'large sales' is a typographical error for 'large scales'.
  2. [§2] The manuscript would benefit from a brief statement of the numerical scheme, time-stepping method, and domain size used in the DNS, even if only by reference to a prior publication.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for recognizing the potential significance of the subharmonic torsional instability as a mechanism linking the inverse-cascade condensate to turbulence onset. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to strengthen the supporting evidence.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2 and §4.1] the claim that the leading SVD mode furnishes a clean, steady base flow for the Floquet operator is load-bearing for the reported λ_r=0.18. At Re=200000 the inverse cascade populates a broad range of scales; without reported energy spectra of the retained SVD mode, residual of the steady Navier-Stokes equations on that mode, or comparison against a filtered base flow, it is impossible to rule out contamination by unresolved fluctuations that would alter the linear operator and the extracted growth rate.

    Authors: We agree that explicit verification of the base-flow cleanliness is essential. The SVD isolates the energetically dominant structure by construction, but to rule out contamination we will add to the revised manuscript: the kinetic-energy spectrum of the leading SVD mode (demonstrating its dominance over higher modes), the L2 residual of the steady Navier-Stokes operator evaluated on this mode, and a direct comparison of the SVD mode against a spectrally filtered DNS snapshot. These diagnostics will quantify any residual fluctuations and confirm that they do not materially affect the extracted growth rate. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2, Floquet dispersion relation: the subharmonic character and the precise value λ_r=0.18 are presented without accompanying resolution or convergence tests (grid spacing, number of retained SVD modes, Floquet truncation). Because the low-Re case is stable, it does not probe the same scale-separation issue; an independent check at Re=200000 is required to establish that the growth rate is not an artifact of the numerical representation of the base flow.

    Authors: We concur that dedicated convergence tests at the high-Re case are required. In the revised manuscript we will include a new subsection (or appendix) presenting systematic checks at Re=200000: (i) variation of DNS grid spacing while keeping the SVD base flow fixed, (ii) sensitivity to the number of retained SVD modes used to construct the base flow, and (iii) convergence of the Floquet eigenvalue with respect to the number of retained Fourier modes in the secondary-instability expansion. These tests will demonstrate that both the subharmonic character and the value λ_r=0.18 remain robust. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: DNS-SVD-Floquet chain is independent of its outputs

full rationale

The derivation proceeds as DNS of the 2D channel flow at fixed Re, followed by SVD extraction of the dominant coherent structure to serve as a base flow, followed by a standard Floquet secondary-instability eigenvalue problem whose growth rate is computed from that base flow. The reported λ_r = 0.18 is an eigenvalue of the linearized operator on the extracted field; it is not fitted to itself, not defined by the instability result, and not justified by any self-citation chain. No step renames a known empirical pattern or imports a uniqueness theorem from the authors' prior work. The procedure is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the standard incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in two dimensions together with the validity of linear Floquet analysis on SVD-extracted modes; no new free parameters or postulated entities are introduced.

axioms (2)
  • standard math The flow obeys the incompressible two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations.
    Invoked as the governing equations for the DNS.
  • domain assumption Singular value decomposition isolates the dominant large-scale wavy structures.
    Used to extract the base flow for the subsequent instability analysis.

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