NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ONSET OF CHAOS IN THE FLOW BETWEEN ROTATING CYLINDERS.

E. Laurien, H. Fasel

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

The flow in the gap between concentric circular cylinders, the inner cylinder rotating, exhibits distinct unsteady stages after the steady Taylor-vortex flow is established. The flow can be either time periodic with one or two traveling waves superposed on this state or 'chaotic', i. e. nonperiodically oscillating in time. When the rotation speed OMEGA is increased from a stage with two traveling waves one of the waves disappears and chaos sets in. The authors investigate this process theoretically assuming cylinders of infinite length and periodic flow in axial and azimuthal directions for a small gap r//i/r//0 equals 0. 877, r//i and r//0 being the inner and outer cylinder radii. 5 Refs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)t311-t313
JournalZeitschrift fur angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
Volume68
Issue number5
StatePublished - 1988
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Applied Mathematics

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ONSET OF CHAOS IN THE FLOW BETWEEN ROTATING CYLINDERS.'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this