Controlling secondary flows in Taylor-Couette flow using stress-free boundary conditions

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.534MaRDI QIDQ4958166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vignesh Jeganathan, K. Alba, Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico

Publication date 7 September 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12853

zbMATH Keywords

direct numerical simulationfinite difference methodrotating cylinderTaylor rollTaylor-Couette flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Flow control and optimization for incompressible viscous fluids (76D55) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

Abstract: Taylor-Couette (TC) flow, the flow between two independently rotating and co-axial cylinders is commonly used as a canonical model for shear flows. Unlike plane Couette, pinned secondary flows can be found in TC flow. These are known as Taylor rolls and drastically affect the flow behaviour. We study the possibility of modifying these secondary structures using patterns of stress-free and no-slip boundary conditions on the inner cylinder. For this, we perform direct numerical simulations of narrow-gap TC flow with pure inner cylinder rotation at four different shear Reynolds numbers up to $R{e}_s=3imes10^4$. We find that one-dimensional azimuthal patterns do not have a significant effect on the flow topology, and that the resulting torque is a large fraction ($sim80-90\mathrm{\%}$) of torque in the fully no-slip case. One-dimensional axial patterns decrease the torque more, and for certain pattern frequency disrupt the rolls by interfering with the existing Reynolds stresses that generate secondary structures. For $Regeq10^4$, this disruption leads to a smaller torque than what would be expected from simple boundary layer effects and the resulting effective slip length and slip velocity. We find that two-dimensional checkerboard patterns have similar behaviour to azimuthal patterns and do not affect the flow or the torque substantially, but two-dimensional spiral inhomogeneities can move around the pinned secondary flows as they induce persistent axial velocities. We quantify the roll's movement for various angles and the widths of the spiral pattern, and find a non-monotonic behaviour as a function of pattern angle and pattern frequency.

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