Variational bound on energy dissipation in turbulent shear flow
  We present numerical solutions to the extended Doering-Constantin variational principle for upper bounds on the energy dissipation rate in plane Couette flow, bridging the entire range from low to asymptotically high Reynolds numbers. Our variational bound exhibits structure, namely a pronounced minimum at intermediate Reynolds numbers, and recovers the Busse bound in the asymptotic regime. The most notable feature is a bifurcation of the minimizing wavenumbers, giving rise to simple scaling of the optimized variational parameters, and of the upper bound, with the Reynolds number. 
Rolf Nicodemus, Siegfried Grossmann, and Martin Holthaus (Fachbereich   Physik der Philipps-Universitaet Marburg)