Optimal Taylor-Couette turbulence

Chao Sun; Dennis P.M. van Gils; Sander G. Huisman; Siegfried Grossmann; Detlef Lohse

Optimal Taylor-Couette turbulence

Chao Sun, Dennis P.M. van Gils, Sander G. Huisman, Siegfried Grossmann, Detlef Lohse

Physics of Fluids

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Abstract

Strongly turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with independently rotating inner and outer cylinders with a radius ratio of η = 0.716 is experimentally studied. From global torque measurements, we analyse the dimensionless angular velocity flux Nuω(Ta, a) as a function of the Taylor number Ta and the angular velocity ratio a = −ωo/ωi in the large-Taylor-number regime 10¹¹. Ta. 10¹³ and well off the inviscid stability borders (Rayleigh lines) a = −η² for co-rotation and a = ∞ for counter-rotation. With the help of laser Doppler anemometry, we provide angular velocity profiles and in particular identify the radial position rn of the neutral line, defined by hω(rn)it = 0.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Sept 2013
Event	14th European Turbulence Conference, ETC 2013 - Lyon, France Duration: 1 Sept 2013 → 4 Sept 2013 Conference number: 14

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Conference	14th European Turbulence Conference, ETC 2013
Abbreviated title	ETC
Country/Territory	France
City	Lyon
Period	1/09/13 → 4/09/13

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