Optimal Taylor-Couette turbulence

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.236zbMATH Open1275.76034arXiv1111.6301OpenAlexW2109919123MaRDI QIDQ2863227FDOQ2863227

Authors: Dennis P. M. Van Gils, Sander G. Huisman, Siegfried Grossmann, Chao Sun, Detlef Lohse 

Publication date: 21 November 2013

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

Abstract: Strongly turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with independently rotating inner and outer cylinders with a radius ratio of eta = 0.716 is experimentally studied. From global torque measurements, we analyse the dimensionless angular velocity flux Nu_omega(Ta, a) as a function of the Taylor number Ta and the angular velocity ratio a = -omega_o/omega_i in the large-Taylor-number regime 10^{11} lesssim Ta lesssim 10^{13}. We analyse the data with the common power-law ansatz for the dimensionless angular velocity transport flux Nu_omega(Ta, a) = f(a)Ta^gamma, with an amplitude f(a) and an exponent gamma. The data are consistent with one effective exponent gamma = 0.39pm0.03 for all a. The amplitude of the angular velocity flux f(a) = Nu_omega(Ta, a)/Ta^0.39 is measured to be maximal at slight counter-rotation, namely at an angular velocity ratio of a_opt = 0.33pm0.04. This value is theoretically interpreted as the result of a competition between the destabilizing inner cylinder rotation and the stabilizing but shear-enhancing outer cylinder counter-rotation. With the help of laser Doppler anemometry, we provide angular velocity profiles and identify the radial position r_n of the neutral line. While for moderate counter-rotation -0.40 omega_i lesssim omega_o < 0, the neutral line still remains close to the outer cylinder and the probability distribution function (p.d.f.) of the bulk angular velocity is observed to be monomodal. For stronger counter-rotation the neutral line is pushed inwards towards the inner cylinder; in this regime the p.d.f. of the bulk angular velocity becomes bimodal, reflecting intermittent bursts of turbulent structures beyond the neutral line into the outer flow domain, which otherwise is stabilized by the counter-rotating outer cylinder. Finally, a hypothesis is offered allowing a unifying view for all these various results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6301

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zbMATH Keywords

Taylor-Couette flowturbulent transitionrotating turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Transition to turbulence (76F06)

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