Fully nonlinear mode competition in magnetised Taylor–Couette flow

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.365zbMATH Open1460.76919arXiv2002.02630OpenAlexW3034267418MaRDI QIDQ5113700FDOQ5113700

Roger Ayats, K. Deguchi, F. Mellibovsky, Alvaro Meseguer

Publication date: 16 June 2020

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

Abstract: We study the nonlinear mode competition of various spiral instabilities in magnetised Taylor-Couette flow. The resulting finite-amplitude mixed-mode solution branches are tracked using the annular-parallelogram periodic domain approach developed by Deguchi & Altmeyer (2013). Mode competition phenomena are studied in both the anti-cyclonic and cyclonic Rayleigh-stable regimes. In the anti-cyclonic sub-rotation regime, with the inner cylinder rotating faster than the outer, Hollerbach, Teeluck & Rudiger (2010) found competing axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric magneto-rotational linearly unstable modes within the parameter range where experimental investigation is feasible. Here we confirm the existence of mode competition and compute the nonlinear mixed-mode solutions that result from it. In the cyclonic super-rotating regime, with the inner cylinder rotating slower than the outer, Deguchi (2017) recently found a non-axisymmetric purely hydrodynamic linear instability that coexists with the non-axisymmetric magneto-rotational instability discovered a little earlier by Rudiger, Schultz, Gellert & Stefani (2016). We show that nonlinear interactions of these instabilities give rise to rich pattern-formation phenomena leading to drastic angular momentum transport enhancement/reduction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02630

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationmagnetohydrodynamicsTaylor-Couette flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Transition to turbulence (76F06)

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