ario0%6 “Taylor-Couetis Now - Wikipedia, the fre ereyelopadia Taylor—Couette flow From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In fluid dynamics, the Taylor—Couette flow consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders. For low angular velocities, measured by the Reynolds number Re, the flow is steady and purely azimuthal. This basic state is known as circular Couette flow, after Maurice Marie Alfred Couette who used this experimental device as a ‘means to measure viscosity. Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor investigated the stability of the Couette flow in a ground-breaking paper which has been a cornerstone in the development of hydrodynamic stability theory.!!] Taylor showed that when the angular velocity of the inner eylinder is increased above a certain threshold, Couette flow becomes unstable and a secondary steady state characterized by axisymmetric toroidal vortices, known as Taylor vortex flow, emerges. Subsequently increasing the angular speed of the cylinder the system undergoes a progression of instabilities which lead to states with greater spatio-temporal complexity, with the next state being called as wavy vortex flow. If the two cylinders rotate in opposite sense then spiral vortex flow arises. Beyond a certain Reynolds number there is the onset of turbulence. Setup of a Taylor—Couette system Circular Couette flow has wide applications ranging from desalination to magnetohydrodynamics and also in viscosimetric analysis. Furthermore, when the liquid is allowed to flow in the annular space of two rotating cylinders along with the application of a pressure gradient then a flow called Taylor—Dean flow arises. Different flow regimes have been categorized over the years including twisted Taylor vortices, wavy outflow boundaries, etc. It has been a well researched and documented flow in fluid dynamics.!?! Contents 1 Taylor vortex 2 Flow regimes 3 Gollub-Swinney circular Couette experiment 4 References 5 Further reading Taylor vortex Taylor vortices (also named after Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor) are vortices formed in rotating Taylor—Couette flow when the Taylor number (Ta) of the flow exceeds a critical value Tae. For flow in which Ta Tag, the new flow, called Taylor—Couette flow, with the Taylor vortices present, is actually steady until the flow reaches a large Reynolds number, at which point the flow transitions to unsteady "wavy vortex" flow, presumably indicating the presence of non-axisymmetric instabilities. Rotating Couette flow is characterized geometrically by the two parameters B=, /2% and n= Ri/Ro where the subscript "1" refers to the inner cylinder and the subscript "2" refers to the outer cylinder. The idealized mathematical problem is posed by choosing a particular value of 1, 9, and Ta, As y+ 1 and ys -> 1 from below, the critical Taylor number is Ta, ~ 1708. position [mm] Flow regimes Avi One significance of Taylor-Couette flow is due to the changes in flow regimes which eventually lead to turbulence, It is hoped that by studying these systems a more general understanding of transitions to turbulence will emerge. Many of the flow regimes have been observed in multiple experiments and have thus acquired a standard naming convention.) For instance: = TVF— Taylor vortex flow = WVE- wavy vortex flow = MWV — modulated wavy vortices = TTV—turbulent Taylor vortices = TUR — featureless turbulent flow as well as a number of others. "Wavy" in this sense refers to the progression of changes to the flow in the angular direction, The entire map of flow regimes is Radial position (normalised) incomplete; experiments are sometimes conducted to elucidate a particular region of interest, but gaps in understanding remain. E.g., a potentially distinct regime called "soft turbulence" has been identified.) Streamlines showing Taylor— Couette vortices in the radial- vertical plane, at Re=950 Taylor-Couette experiments may sometimes include additional system features, such as an imposed axial flow, pulsating flow,ll*l etc. designed to better understand certain transitions, Gollub-Swinney circular Couette experiment In 1975, J. P. Gollub and H. L. Swinney published a paper on the onset of turbulence in rotating fluid. In a Taylor—Couette flow system, they observed that, as the rotation rate increases, the fluid stratifies into a pile of "fluid donuts”, With further increases in the rotation rate, the donuts oscillate and twist and finally become turbulent.(7I Their study helped establish the Ruelle—Takens scenario in turbulence,!*! which is an important contribution by Floris Takens and David Ruelle towards understanding how hydrodynamic systems transition from stable flow patterns into turbulent. While the principal, governing factor for this transition is the Reynolds number, there are other important influencing factors: if the flow is open (meaning there is a lateral up- and tpaenwikipoiarorgwikTaylorigE2sis0%93Cavete_ ow 28anozo%8 “Taylor-Couetis Now - Wikipedia, the fre ereyelopadia downstream), closed (flow is laterally bound; e.g. rotating), bounded (influenced by wall effects) or unbounded (not influenced by wall effects). According to this classification the TaylorCouette flow is an example of a flow pattern forming in a closed, bounded flow system, References Taylor, G.l. (1923). "Stability of a Viscous Liquid contained between Two Rotating Cylinders". Phil. Trans. Royal Society. A223 (605-615): 289-343. Bibcode:1923RSPTA.223..289T. doi:10,1098/rsta. 1923.0008. 2, Andereck, C.D.; Liu, S.S.; Swinney, H.L. (1986). "Flow regimes in a circular Couette system with independently rotating cylinders", Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 164: 1SS-183. Bibcode:1986JFM...164..155A. doi:10.1017/80022112086002513, 3. Weisberg, A. Y.; Kevrekidis, I. G.; Smits, A. J. (1997), "Delaying Transition in Taylor—Couette Flow with Axial Motion of the Inner Cylinder". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 348: 141-151, doi:10.1017/S00221 12097006630. 4, Takeda, Y. (1999). "Quasi-Periodic State and Transition to Turbulence in a Rotating Couette System". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 389: 81-99. Bibcode:1999JFM...389...81T, doi:10.1017/S0022112099005091. 5. Wereley, S. T.; Lueptow, R. M. (1999). "Velocity field for Taylor—Couette flow with an axial flow”. Physics of Fluids. U1 (12): 3637-3649. Bibcode:1999PhF...11.3637W. doi:10.1063/1.870228, 6. Marques, F.; Lopez, J. M.; Shen, J. (2001), "A Periodically Forced Flow Displaying Symmetry Breaking Via a ‘Three-Tori Gluing Bifurcation and Two-Tori Resonances". Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 156 (1-2): 81-91. Bibcode:2001PhyD..156...81M. doi:10,1016/80167-2789(01)00261-5. 7. Gollub, J. P.; Swinney, H. L. (1975). "Onset of turbulence in a rotating fluid". Physical Review Letters. 35 (14): 927— 930, Bibcode:1975PhRWL..35..927G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.35.927. 8. Guckenheimer, John (1983). "Strange attractors in fluid dynamics". Dynamical System and Chaos. Lecture Notes in Physics. 179, Springer Berlin, pp. 149-156, doi:10,1007/3-540-12276-1_10, ISBN 978-3-540-12276.0, Further reading = Chossat, P; Jooss, G. (1992). The Couette-Taylor Problem. Wikimedia Commons has Applied Mathematical Sciences. 102. Springer. doi:10.1007/978- media elated to Taylors 1-4612-4300-7. ISBN 978-0387941547. Conctefiem. = Koschmieder, E. L. (1993). Bénard Cells and Taylor Vortices. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40204-2. Retrieved from "https://en.wi yedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taylor-Couette_flow&oldid=724932330" Categories: Fluid dynamies | Fluid dynamic instability = This page was last modified on 12 June 2016, at 13:58, xt is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. tpaenwikipoiarorgwikTaylorigE2sis0%93Cavete_ ow 30.