--- _id: '461' abstract: - lang: eng text: Turbulence is the major cause of friction losses in transport processes and it is responsible for a drastic drag increase in flows over bounding surfaces. While much effort is invested into developing ways to control and reduce turbulence intensities, so far no methods exist to altogether eliminate turbulence if velocities are sufficiently large. We demonstrate for pipe flow that appropriate distortions to the velocity profile lead to a complete collapse of turbulence and subsequently friction losses are reduced by as much as 90%. Counterintuitively, the return to laminar motion is accomplished by initially increasing turbulence intensities or by transiently amplifying wall shear. Since neither the Reynolds number nor the shear stresses decrease (the latter often increase), these measures are not indicative of turbulence collapse. Instead, an amplification mechanism measuring the interaction between eddies and the mean shear is found to set a threshold below which turbulence is suppressed beyond recovery. acknowledgement: We acknowledge the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement 306589, the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 737549) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Project No. FOR 1182) for financial support. We thank our technician P. Maier for providing highly valuable ideas and greatly supporting us in all technical aspects. We thank M. Schaner for technical drawings, construction and design. We thank M. Schwegel for a Matlab code to post-process experimental data. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Jakob full_name: Kühnen, Jakob id: 3A47AE32-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kühnen orcid: 0000-0003-4312-0179 - first_name: Baofang full_name: Song, Baofang last_name: Song - first_name: Davide full_name: Scarselli, Davide id: 40315C30-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Scarselli orcid: 0000-0001-5227-4271 - first_name: Nazmi B full_name: Budanur, Nazmi B id: 3EA1010E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Budanur orcid: 0000-0003-0423-5010 - first_name: Michael full_name: Riedl, Michael id: 3BE60946-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Riedl orcid: 0000-0003-4844-6311 - first_name: Ashley full_name: Willis, Ashley last_name: Willis - first_name: Marc full_name: Avila, Marc last_name: Avila - first_name: Björn full_name: Hof, Björn id: 3A374330-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hof orcid: 0000-0003-2057-2754 citation: ama: Kühnen J, Song B, Scarselli D, et al. Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow. Nature Physics. 2018;14:386-390. doi:10.1038/s41567-017-0018-3 apa: Kühnen, J., Song, B., Scarselli, D., Budanur, N. B., Riedl, M., Willis, A., … Hof, B. (2018). Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow. Nature Physics. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-017-0018-3 chicago: Kühnen, Jakob, Baofang Song, Davide Scarselli, Nazmi B Budanur, Michael Riedl, Ashley Willis, Marc Avila, and Björn Hof. “Destabilizing Turbulence in Pipe Flow.” Nature Physics. Nature Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-017-0018-3. ieee: J. Kühnen et al., “Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow,” Nature Physics, vol. 14. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 386–390, 2018. ista: Kühnen J, Song B, Scarselli D, Budanur NB, Riedl M, Willis A, Avila M, Hof B. 2018. Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow. Nature Physics. 14, 386–390. mla: Kühnen, Jakob, et al. “Destabilizing Turbulence in Pipe Flow.” Nature Physics, vol. 14, Nature Publishing Group, 2018, pp. 386–90, doi:10.1038/s41567-017-0018-3. short: J. Kühnen, B. Song, D. Scarselli, N.B. Budanur, M. Riedl, A. Willis, M. Avila, B. Hof, Nature Physics 14 (2018) 386–390. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:36Z date_published: 2018-01-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-27T23:30:36Z day: '08' department: - _id: BjHo doi: 10.1038/s41567-017-0018-3 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000429434100020' intvolume: ' 14' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06543 month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 386-390 project: - _id: 25152F3A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '306589' name: Decoding the complexity of turbulence at its origin - _id: 25104D44-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '737549' name: Eliminating turbulence in oil pipelines publication: Nature Physics publication_status: published publisher: Nature Publishing Group publist_id: '7360' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '12726' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '14530' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '7258' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 14 year: '2018' ...