Streamline topology of steady axisymmetric vortex breakdown in a cylinder with co- and counter-rotating end-covers

DOI10.1017/S0022112099006588zbMath0964.76022WikidataQ61634768 ScholiaQ61634768MaRDI QIDQ4489310

Jens Nørkær Sørensen, Morten Brøns, Lars K. Voigt

Publication date: 5 July 2001

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

zbMATH Keywords

vorticity; boundary conditions; bifurcation; streamfunction; Poisson equation; transport equations; cylinder; second-order central difference scheme; Taylor expansions; azimuthal velocity; rotating bottom; streamline topology; Hermitian approximation of derivatives; rotating top; time stabilization method; viscous incompressible axisymmetric flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37N10: Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76D17: Viscous vortex flows

76E07: Rotation in hydrodynamic stability

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