Hydromagnetic Taylor--Couette flow: numerical formulation and comparison with experiment

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2002-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207560v2

J.Fluid Mech. 463 (2002) 361-375

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1017/S0022112002001040

Taylor--Couette flow in the presence of a magnetic field is a problem belonging to classical hydromagnetics and deserves to be more widely studied than it has been to date. In the nonlinear regime the literature is scarce. We develop a formulation suitable for solution of the full three dimensional nonlinear hydromagnetic equations in cylindrical geometry, which is motived by the formulation for the magnetic field. It is suitable for study at finite magnetic Prandtl numbers and in the small Prandtl number limit, relevant to laboratory liquid metals. The method is used to determine the onset of axisymmetric Taylor vortices, and finite amplitude solutions. Our results compare well with existing linear and nonlinear hydrodynamic calculations and with hydromagnetic experiments.

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