Spiral Vortices and Taylor Vortices in the Annulus between Rotating Cylinders and the Effect of an Axial Flow

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2005-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505164v1

Phys. Rev. E 69, 056309 (2004).

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

14 pages, 15 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.056309

We present numerical simulations of vortices that appear via primary bifurcations out of the unstructured circular Couette flow in the Taylor-Couette system with counter-rotating as well as with co-rotating cylinders. The full, time dependent Navier-Stokes equations are solved with a combination of a finite difference and a Galerkin method for a fixed axial periodicity length of the vortex patterns and for a finite system of aspect ratio 12 with rigid nonrotating ends in a setup with radius ratio eta=0.5. Differences in structure, dynamics, symmetry properties, bifurcation and stability behavior between spiral vortices with azimuthal wave numbers M=+-1 and M=0 Taylor vortices are elucidated and compared in quantitative detail. Simulations in axially periodic systems and in finite systems with stationary rigid ends are compared with experimental spiral data. In a second part of the paper we determine how the above listed properties of the M=-1,0,1 vortex structures are changed by an externally imposed axial through-flow with Reynolds numbers in the range -40 <= Re <= 40. Among others we investigate when left handed or right handed spirals or toroidally closed vortices are preferred.

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