Marginally stable and turbulent boundary layers in low-curvature Taylor-Couette flow

DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.44MaRDI QIDQ5364572zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hannes J. Brauckmann, Bruno Eckhardt

Publication date 28 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00556

zbMATH Keywords

Taylor-Couette flowboundary layer stabilityrotating turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40)

Abstract: Marginal stability arguments are used to describe the rotation-number dependence of torque in Taylor-Couette (TC) flow for radius ratios $etageq0.9$ and shear Reynolds number $R{e}_S=2imes10^4$. With an approximate representation of the mean profile by piecewise linear functions, characterized by the boundary-layer thicknesses at the inner and outer cylinder and the angular momentum in the center, profiles and torques are extracted from the requirement that the boundary layers represent marginally stable TC subsystems and that the torque at the inner and outer cylinder coincide. This model then explains the broad shoulder in the torque as a function of rotation number near $R_{O}megaapprox0.2$. For rotation numbers $R_{O}mega<0.07$ the TC stability conditions predict boundary layers in which shear Reynolds numbers are very large. Assuming that the TC instability is bypassed by some shear instability, a second maximum in torque appears, in very good agreement with numerical simulations. The results show that, despite the shortcomings of marginal stability theory in other cases, it can explain quantitatively the non-monotonic torque variation with rotation number for both the broad maximum as well as the narrow maximum.

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