Rotating cylinders model

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mathematical model

Available identifiers

MaRDI QIDQ6830616 FDOQ6830616

Also known as rotating cylinders model

Named after

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Maurice Marie Alfred Couette

a fluid confined in between two rotating cylinders of different radii and angular velocities

Description

For low relative angular velocities and for small gap (relative to the diameters of the cylinders), i.e., for a small Reynolds number, the flow is steady and purely azimuthal.

Contained entities

stationary Navier-Stokes equations	$\begin{matrix} \vec{u} \cdot \nabla \vec{u} - ν \nabla^{2} \vec{u} & = - \frac{1}{ρ} \nabla p \\ \nabla \cdot \vec{u} & = 0 \end{matrix}$	physical law
	$ν$ represents kinematic viscosity
	$u$ represents fluid velocity (free flow)
	$p$ represents fluid pressure (free flow)
	$ρ$ represents fluid mass density

rotating cylinders domain	$R_{1} \leq R \leq R_{2}$	computational domain
	$R_{1}$ represents inner cylinder radius
	$R_{2}$ represents outer cylinder radius
	$R$ represents radial coordinate

rotating cylinders inner wall	$u (R_{1}, Θ) = (0, Ω_{1})$	boundary condition
	$R_{1}$ represents inner cylinder radius
	$Ω_{1}$ represents inner cylinder angular velocity
	$u$ represents fluid velocity (free flow)
	$Θ$ represents polar angle

rotating cylinders outer boundary	$u (R_{2}, Θ) = (0, Ω_{2})$	boundary condition
	$R_{2}$ represents outer cylinder radius
	$Ω_{2}$ represents outer cylinder angular velocity
	$u$ represents fluid velocity (free flow)
	$Θ$ represents polar angle

rotating cylinders velocity field	$u_{Θ} (R) = A R + \frac{B}{R}$	analytical solution
	$Θ$ represents polar angle
	$R$ represents radial coordinate
	$u$ represents fluid velocity (free flow)
	$A$ represents rotating cylinders constant A
	$B$ represents rotating cylinders constant B

rotating cylinders pressure field	$p (R) = \frac{A^{2} R^{2}}{2} + 2 A B \log (R) + \frac{B^{2}}{2 R^{2}} + C$	analytical solution
	$R$ represents radial coordinate
	$p$ represents fluid pressure (free flow)
	$A$ represents rotating cylinders constant A
	$B$ represents rotating cylinders constant B
	$C$ represents rotating cylinders constant C

References

VIII. Stability of a viscous liquid contained between two rotating cylinders

Further links

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