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 experiments; centrifugal instabilities; Taylor-Görtler vortex-wavelength spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65C20: Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics

76D05: Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76E99: Hydrodynamic stability

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