Boundary Limitation of Wavenumbers in Taylor-Vortex Flow

Details Boundary Limitation of Wavenumbers in Taylor-Vortex Flow Boundary Limitation of Wavenumbers in Taylor-Vortex Flow

1998-05-27

arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9805008v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

8 pages incl. 9 eps figures bitmap version of Fig3

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.58.3168

We report experimental results for a boundary-mediated wavenumber-adjustment mechanism and for a boundary-limited wavenumber-band of Taylor-vortex flow (TVF). The system consists of fluid contained between two concentric cylinders with the inner one rotating at an angular frequency $\Omega$. As observed previously, the Eckhaus instability (a bulk instability) is observed and limits the stable wavenumber band when the system is terminated axially by two rigid, non-rotating plates. The band width is then of order $\epsilon^{1/2}$ at small $\epsilon$ ($\epsilon \equiv \Omega/\Omega_c - 1$) and agrees well with calculations based on the equations of motion over a wide $\epsilon$-range. When the cylinder axis is vertical and the upper liquid surface is free (i.e. an air-liquid interface), vortices can be generated or expelled at the free surface because there the phase of the structure is only weakly pinned. The band of wavenumbers over which Taylor-vortex flow exists is then more narrow than the stable band limited by the Eckhaus instability. At small $\epsilon$ the boundary-mediated band-width is linear in $\epsilon$. These results are qualitatively consistent with theoretical predictions, but to our knowledge a quantitative calculation for TVF with a free surface does not exist.

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