Characteristics of disturbances in the laminar–turbulent transition of spherical Couette flow. 1. Spiral Taylor–Görtler vortices and traveling waves for narrow gaps

DOI10.1063/1.1502661zbMATH Open1185.76273OpenAlexW2092710327MaRDI QIDQ3556233FDOQ3556233

Authors: Kiochi Nakabayashi, Yoichi Tsuchida, Zhiming Zheng 

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1502661

zbMATH Keywords

Couette flowfluctuationsvorticesflow visualisationlaminar to turbulent transitionssurface waves (fluid)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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• Suspension Taylor–Couette flow: co-existence of stationary and travelling waves, and the characteristics of Taylor vortices and spirals
• The structure of spatio-temporal defects in a spiral pattern in the Couette-Taylor flow
• On the structure and formation of spiral Taylor-Görtler vortices in spherical Couette flow
• Characteristics of disturbances in the laminar–turbulent transition of spherical Couette flow. 2. New disturbances observed for a medium gap
• Axisymmetric pulse train solutions in narrow-gap spherical Couette flow
• Superfluid spherical Couette flow
• Revisiting visualization of spiral states in a wide-gap spherical Couette flow

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