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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Instabilities in the wake of a circular disk
T Bobinski1, S Goujon-Durand2, J E Wesfreid2
1Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, ul. Nowowiejska 24, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland and Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes (PMMH) [UMR 7636 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)-Université Paris Diderot (UPD)], 10 rue Vauquelin, F-75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
Flow past a disk was investigated experimentally in a low-velocity water channel in the range of intermediate Reynolds numbers. Systematic experiments with flow visualization and particle image velocimetry measurements are presented. Different disks with the aspect ratio χ = d/h varying from 1 to 24 were investigated. The measurements were made in the range of Reynolds numbers from 0 to 500, where stationary and oscillatory instabilities appear. The influence of the aspect ratio on the value of onset instability, the evolution of perturbation, and the obtained vorticity bifurcation branches of the instability were identified.
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