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Flow in a differentially rotated cylindrical drop at moderate Reynolds number

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

George M. Harriott  and
Robert A. Brown
George M. Harriott
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Processing Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Robert A. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Processing Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Abstract

Galerkin finite-element approximations are combined with computer-implemented perturbation methods for tracking families of solutions to calculate the steady axisymmetric flows in a differentially rotated cylindrical drop as a function of Reynolds number Re, drop aspect ratio and the rotation ratio between the two end disks. The flows for Reynolds numbers below 100 are primarily viscous and reasonably described by an asymptotic analysis. When the disks are exactly counter-rotated, multiple steady flows are calculated that bifurcate to higher values of Re from the expected solution with two identical secondary cells stacked symmetrically about the axial midplane. The new flows have two cells of different size and are stable beyond the critical value Rec. The slope of the locus of Rec for drops with aspect ratio up to 3 disagrees with the result for two disks of infinite radius computed assuming the similarity form of the velocity field. Changing the rotation ratio from exact counter-rotation ruptures the junction of the multiple flow fields into two separated flow families.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 144 , July 1984 , pp. 403 - 418
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© 1984 Cambridge University Press

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