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Waves and instabilities in rotating free surface flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2014

J. Mougel ,
D. Fabre  and
L. Lacaze
J. Mougel*
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, UMR CNRS/INPT/UPS 5502, Allée Camille Soula, 31400 Toulouse, France
D. Fabre
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, UMR CNRS/INPT/UPS 5502, Allée Camille Soula, 31400 Toulouse, France
L. Lacaze
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, UMR CNRS/INPT/UPS 5502, Allée Camille Soula, 31400 Toulouse, France CNRS, IMFT, 31400 Toulouse, France
*
a Corresponding author: jerome.mougel@imft.fr
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Abstract

The stability properties of the rotating free surface flow in a cylindrical container is studied using a global stability approach, considering successively three models. For the case of solid body rotation (Newton’s bucket), all eigenmodes are found to be stable, and are classified into three families: gravity waves, singular inertial modes, and Rossby waves. For the case of a potential flow, an instability is found. The mechanism is explained as a resonance between gravity waves and centrifugal waves, and is thought to be at the origin of the “rotating polygon instability” observed in experiments where the flow is driven by rotation of the bottom plate (see L. Tophøj, J. Mougel, T. Bohr, D. Fabre, The Rotating Polygon Instability of a Swirling Free Surface Flow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 194502). Finally, in the case of the Rankine vortex which in fact consists in the combination of the two first cases, we report a new instability mechanism involving Rossby and gravity waves.

Keywords

rotating flowswavesinstabilities
Type
Research Article
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Mechanics & Industry , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , 2014 , pp. 107 - 112
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© AFM, EDP Sciences 2014

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