Couette Taylor instabilities for counter-rotating cylinders in the small-gap regime
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| author | Bian, Dongfen Grenier, Emmanuel Iooss, Gérard Yang, Zhuolun |
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| contents | We study the Couette Taylor instabilities for an incompressible viscous fluid between two coaxial cylinders of nearly equal radii, allowing counter-rotation with the ratio of rotation rate $μ\in [-1,1]$. Working in a rotating frame and in a small-gap and small-viscosity regime, we derive the corresponding limiting Navier Stokes system and analyze the linear stability of the Couette flow. In particular, we numerically compute the critical Taylor number for general perturbations and identify a transition near $μ_c \approx -0.8$: for $μ> μ_c$ the most unstable mode is axisymmetric, whereas for $μ< μ_c$ the most unstable mode is non-axisymmetric.
Near criticality, slowly varying traveling waves are governed by a time-independent Ginzburg Landau equation. The nonlinear coefficient changes sign near $\hatμ_c \approx -0.65$, yielding a supercritical regime for $μ> \hatμ_c$ and a subcritical regime for $μ_c < μ< \hatμ_c$. In the subcritical range, we classify small-amplitude steady states, including Taylor vortex flows, wavy vortices, a two-parameter family of quasi-periodic flows, and a localized traveling perturbation of the Couette flow. |
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| spellingShingle | Couette Taylor instabilities for counter-rotating cylinders in the small-gap regime Bian, Dongfen Grenier, Emmanuel Iooss, Gérard Yang, Zhuolun Analysis of PDEs We study the Couette Taylor instabilities for an incompressible viscous fluid between two coaxial cylinders of nearly equal radii, allowing counter-rotation with the ratio of rotation rate $μ\in [-1,1]$. Working in a rotating frame and in a small-gap and small-viscosity regime, we derive the corresponding limiting Navier Stokes system and analyze the linear stability of the Couette flow. In particular, we numerically compute the critical Taylor number for general perturbations and identify a transition near $μ_c \approx -0.8$: for $μ> μ_c$ the most unstable mode is axisymmetric, whereas for $μ< μ_c$ the most unstable mode is non-axisymmetric. Near criticality, slowly varying traveling waves are governed by a time-independent Ginzburg Landau equation. The nonlinear coefficient changes sign near $\hatμ_c \approx -0.65$, yielding a supercritical regime for $μ> \hatμ_c$ and a subcritical regime for $μ_c < μ< \hatμ_c$. In the subcritical range, we classify small-amplitude steady states, including Taylor vortex flows, wavy vortices, a two-parameter family of quasi-periodic flows, and a localized traveling perturbation of the Couette flow. |
| title | Couette Taylor instabilities for counter-rotating cylinders in the small-gap regime |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19704 |