Spatio-temporal mode dynamics and higher order transitions in high aspect ratio Newtonian Taylor–Couette flows

DOI10.1017/S0022112009991431zbMath1183.76016MaRDI QIDQ3550464

Susan J. Muller, C. S. Dutcher

Publication date: 31 March 2010

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112009991431

zbMATH Keywords

instability; transition to turbulence; Taylor-Couette flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-05: Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76E07: Rotation in hydrodynamic stability

76F06: Transition to turbulence

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