Ramped Taylor-Couette flow
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 31 (3) , 1955-1956
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.31.1955
Abstract
Comments are made on the wave-number selection when a ramp changes the conditions in Taylor-Couette flow from locally subcritical to supercritical as z increases. It is argued that under certain well-defined circumstances the wave number is uniquely determined by the geometry.Keywords
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