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Turbulent Taylor vortex flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2017

E. L. Koschmieder
E. L. Koschmieder*
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College of Engineering , and I. , Prigogine Center for Statistical Mechanics, The University of Texas, Austin
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The wavelength of turbulent Taylor vortices at very high Taylor numbers up to 40000Tc, has been measured in long fluid columns with radius ratios η = 0·896 and η = 0·727. Following slow acceleration procedures the wavelength (in units of the gap width) of turbulent axisymmetric vortices was found to be λ = 3·4 ± 0·1 with the small gap and about λ = 2·4 ± 0·1 with the larger gap, and thus in both cases substantially larger than the critical wavelength of laminar Taylor vortices. In the narrow and wide gap the wavelength was, within experimental error, independent of the Taylor number for T > 100Tc. In the experiments with the narrow gap a clear dependence of the value of the wavelength of the turbulent vortices on initial conditions was found. After sudden starts to Taylor numbers > 700Tc the wavelength of steady axisymmetric turbulent vortices was only 2·4 ± 0·05, being then the same as the wavelength of the vortices after sudden starts in the wide gap, and being, within the experimental error, independent of the Taylor number. In the narrow gap all values of the wavelength between λmax = 3·4 and λmin = 2·4 can be realized as steady states through different acceleration procedures. In the wide gap the dependence of the wavelength on initial conditions is just within the then larger experimental uncertainty of the measurements.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 93 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 515 - 527
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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