We discuss the flow between concentric rotating cylinders in the limit of large radii where the system approaches plane Couette flow. We discuss how in this limit the linear instability that leads to the formation of Taylor vortices is lost and how the character of the transition approaches that of planar shear flows. In particular, a parameter regime is identified where fractal distributions o...

1 Chandrasekhar, S., "The Stability of Non-Dissipative Couette Flow in Hydromagnetics," these PROCEEDINGS, 46, 253-257 (1960); see also Velikhov, E. P., "Stability of an ideally conducting liquid flowing between cylinders rotating in a magnetic field," Soviet Phys.-JETP, 36, 995-998 (1959). 2 Reid, W. H., "Inviscid modes of instability in Couette flow," J. Math. Anal. and Applications (to appea...

Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of fully convective, rotating spheres with volume heating near the center and cooling at the surface are presented. The dynamo-generated magnetic field saturates at equipartition field strength near the surface. In the interior, the field is dominated by small-scale structures, but outside the sphere by the global scale. Azimuthal averages of the field reveal a l...

Abstract We study the dynamic behaviour of two viscous fluid films confined between concentric cylinders rotating at a small relative velocity. It is assumed that fluids are immiscible and volume outer film large compared to inner one. Moreover, while considered have constant viscosity, rheological thin determined by strain-dependent power-law. Starting from Navier–Stokes system, we formally de...

We studied the evolution of elliptic heavy SF6 gas cylinder surrounded by air when accelerated by a planar Mach 1.25 shock. A multiple dynamics imaging technology has been used to obtain one image of the experimental initial conditions and five images of the time evolution of elliptic cylinder. We compared the width and height of the circular and two kinds of elliptic gas cylinders and analyzed...

A cooling system with impinging jets is used extensively in diverse engineering applications, such as solar panels, electronic equipments, battery thermal management, textiles and drying applications. Over the years many methods have been offered to increase effectiveness of design by different techniques. In one available methods, nano-jets are achieve a higher local average heat transfer coef...