Rotating cylinders task: velocity and pressure

analytical approach to get the velocity and pressure fields for the rotating cylinders problem

Description

Here we choose R1=1 and R2=2 for the cylinder radii and omega1=2 and omega2=5/4 for the corresponding angular velocities. This choice yields eta=1/2 and mu=5/8 for the dimensionless parameters, such that finally we have A=B=1. Further, we (arbitrarily) choose C=1 for simplicity.

The no-slip boundary conditions for the velocity profile are u(R1)=omega1*R1=2 and u(R2)=omega2*R2=5/2

The boundary conditions for the pressure profile are p(R1)=2 and p(R2)=25/8+2log2=4.51129...

Contained entities

rotating cylinders velocity field	$u = A R + \frac{B}{R}$	analytical solution
	$R$ represents radial coordinate
	$u$ represents fluid velocity
	$A$ represents 1st rotating cylinders constant
	$B$ represents 2nd rotating cylinders constant

1st rotating cylinders constant	$A \equiv ω_{1} \frac{μ - η^{2}}{1 - η^{2}}$	numeric value 1.0
		constant
	$A$ represents 1st rotating cylinders constant
	$ω_{1}$ represents inner cylinder angular velocity
	$μ$ represents relative cylinder angular velocity
	$η$ represents relative cylinder radius

2nd rotating cylinders constant	$B \equiv ω_{1} R_{1}^{2} \frac{1 - μ}{1 - η^{2}}$	numeric value 1.0
		constant
	$B$ represents 2nd rotating cylinders constant
	$R_{1}$ represents inner cylinder radius
	$ω_{1}$ represents inner cylinder angular velocity
	$μ$ represents relative cylinder angular velocity
	$η$ represents relative cylinder radius

3rd rotating cylinders constant		numeric value 1.0
		constant
test 1 constraint	$R \leq 1.75$	constraint
	$R$ represents radial coordinate

fluid velocity		output
radial coordinate	$r \equiv \sqrt{x^{2} + y^{2} + z^{2}}$	minimum value 1
		maximum value 2
		number of values 101
		input
	$r$ represents radial coordinate
	$x$ represents Cartesian coordinate x
	$y$ represents Cartesian coordinate y
	$z$ represents Cartesian coordinate z

fluid pressure		output
rotating cylinders pressure field	$p = \frac{A^{2} R^{2}}{2} + 2 A B \log (R) + \frac{B^{2}}{2 R^{2}} + C$	analytical solution
	$R$ represents radial coordinate
	$p$ represents fluid pressure
	$A$ represents 1st rotating cylinders constant
	$B$ represents 2nd rotating cylinders constant
	$C$ represents 3rd rotating cylinders constant

test 2 constraint	$R \geq 5 / 4$	constraint
	$R$ represents radial coordinate

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