Centrifugal instabilities during spin-down to rest in finite cylinders. Numerical experiments

DOI10.1017/S002211208100267XzbMath0449.76083MaRDI QIDQ3896764

Stephen H. Davis, G. Paul Neitzel

Publication date: 1981

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

zbMATH Keywords

numerical experimentscentrifugal instabilitiesTaylor-Görtler vortex-wavelength spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics (65C20) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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