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The effects of eccentricity on torque and load in Taylor-vortex flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

P.M. Eagles ,
J. T. Stuart  and
R. C. Diprima
P.M. Eagles
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The City University, London
J. T. Stuart
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Imperial College, London
R. C. Diprima
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Imperial College, London
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Abstract

This paper extends two earlier papers in which DiPrima & Stuart calculated first (1972b) the critical Taylor number to order ε2, where the eccentricity ε is proportional to the displacement of the axes of the circular cylinders, and second (1975) the torque and load to order ε associated with nonlinear effects of Taylor vortices. In the latter paper, it was shown that to order ε the torque arising from the Taylor vortices is identical with that for the concentric problem, which was first calculated, by a perturbation method, by Davey (1962). This deficiency is remedied in the present paper, where the calculation is taken to order ε2. It is found that, as ε rises, the torque associated with the Taylor vortices falls slightly when we keep constant the percentage elevation of the Taylor number above the ε-dependent critical value. This result is in accordance with experimental observations by Vohr (1967, 1968). In addition, results of calculations of the pressure field developed by the Taylor-vortex flow in association with the eccentric geometry are presented; this is larger than in the concentric case owing to a Reynolds lubrication effect. Also given are the associated components of the load on the inner cylinder, but only for Taylor numbers close to the critical value.

One additional observation by Vohr, for cylinders with a mean ratio of the gap to the inner radius of 0·099, was that the maximum Taylor-vortex strength with ε = 0·475 occurred some 50° downstream of the maximum gap for a 20% elevation of the Taylor number above the critical value. Calculations in the two earlier papers (1972b, 1975) gave 90 and 76°, respectively, for that angle. Note that in the 1975 paper a geometrical correction of order ε was included. Here, with an additional modification of order ε due to the flow, this result is improved to 49° by the extended analysis presented, although the ‘small’ parameters are somewhat outside the range for which perturbation theory is expected to be valid.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 87 , Issue 2 , 26 July 1978 , pp. 209 - 231
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© 1978 Cambridge University Press

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