Compressible Taylor-Couette flow - instability mechanism and codimension 3 points
Compressible Taylor-Couette flow - instability mechanism and codimension 3 points
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可压缩 Taylor-Couette 流 - 不稳定机制和余维数 3 点
DOI:
10.1017/jfm.2014.279
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Welsh S
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作者:
Welsh S
Taylor–Couette flow in a compressible perfect gas is studied. The onset of instability is examined as a function of the Reynolds numbers of the inner and outer cylinder, the Mach number of the flow and the Prandtl number of the gas. We focus on the case of a wide gap, with radius ratio 0.5. We find new modes of instability at high Prandtl number, which can allow oscillatory axisymmetric modes to onset first. We also find that onset can occur even when the angular momentum increases outwards, so that the classical Rayleigh criterion can be violated in the compressible case. We have also considered the case of counter-rotating cylinders, where the modes touch rather than cross. Complex codimension 3 points occur more readily in the compressible case than in the Boussinesq case, and they are expected to lead to a rich nonlinear behaviour.