Solitary vortex couples in viscoelastic Couette flow

Details Solitary vortex couples in viscoelastic Couette flow Solitary vortex couples in viscoelastic Couette flow

1996-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9610008v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

9 pages (LaTeX), 5 Postscript figures, submitted

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1460

We report experimental observation of a localized structure, which is of a new type for dissipative systems. It appears as a solitary vortex couple ("diwhirl") in Couette flow with highly elastic polymer solutions. A unique property of the diwhirls is that they are stationary, in contrast to the usual localized wave structures in both Hamiltonian and dissipative systems which are stabilized by wave dispersion. It is also a new object in fluid dynamics - a couple of vortices that build a single entity somewhat similar to a magnetic dipole. The diwhirls arise as a result of a purely elastic instability through a hysteretic transition at negligible Reynolds numbers. It is suggested that the vortex flow is driven by the same forces that cause the Weissenberg effect. The diwhirls have a striking asymmetry between the inflow and outflow, which is also an essential feature of the suggested elastic instability mechanism.

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