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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Experimental Investigations on the Effect of Axial Homogenous Magnetic Fields on Propagating Vortex Flow in the
Thomas Ilzig1, Katharina Stöckel1, Stefan Odenbach1
1Chair of Magnetofluiddynamics, Measuring and Automation Technology, Dresden University of Technology, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
Experimental investigations of propagating vortex flow states (pV states) in a short Taylor-Couette system with asymmetric boundary conditions are presented. The flow state was established in a ferrofluid showing no magneto-viscous effect and was exposed to axial magnetic fields. It was found that the magnetic field led to a change in the spatial and temporal behavior of the pV state, indicating complex interactions between the flow field and magnetic field. A stepwise applied axial magnetic field destabilized the pV state, leading to an intermittent flow state. Gradually increasing the axial magnetic fields changed the temporal behavior of the regime. Up to magnetic field strengths of 20 kA/m, the orbital frequency, as a measure for the temporal periodicity, was increased with field strength.
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