Characteristics of disturbances in the laminar–turbulent transition of spherical Couette flow. 2. New disturbances observed for a medium gap

DOI10.1063/1.1502662zbMath1185.76275MaRDI QIDQ3556234

Yoichi Tsuchida, Koichi Nakabayashi, Zhi Ming Zheng

Publication date: 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1502662

zbMATH Keywords

vortices; Couette flow; boundary layer turbulence; elastic waves; flow visualisation; fluid oscillations; rotational flow; confined flow; surface waves (fluid); laminar to turbulent transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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