Bistability and hysteresis in a highly turbulent swirling flow

Nicolás Mujica and Daniel P. Lathrop

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2005, vol. 356, issue 1, 162-166

Abstract: We report on experimental observations of a gravity-wave instability forced by a highly turbulent free-surface Taylor–Couette flow. We observe a subcritical bifurcation from a highly turbulent base state, the mean flow of which is axisymmetric, to a turbulent gravity-wave state, the mean flow of which has a azimuthal number m=1. The flow is characterized by ultrasound velocimetry, by imaging of the surface profile, local free-surface disturbance measurements and by the dynamic pressure at the outer cylinder.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.05.030

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