A Numerical Study of the Recirculation Zones during Spin-Up and Spin-Down for Confined Rotating Flows

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-49

  Cui, Xinjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242595718     PISSN: 09354964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00162-003-0092-2     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Benton, E.R., and Clark, A., Jr. (1974). Spin-up. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 6, 257-280.
2. Brown, G.L., and Lopez, J.M. (1990). Axisymmetric vortex breakdown, Part 2. Physical mechanics. J. Fluid Mech., 221, 553-576.
3. Escudier, M.P. (1984). Observation of the flows produced in a cylindrical container by a rotating endwall. Expts. Fluids, 2, 189-196.
4. Jahnke, C.C., and Valentine, D.T. (1998). Recirculation zones in a cylindrical container. J. Fluids Eng., 120, 680-684.
5. Lopez, J.M. (1990). Axisymmetric vortex breakdown, Part 1. Confined swirling flow. J. Fluid Mech., 221, 533-552.
6. Lopez, J.M., and Perry, A.D. (1992). Axisymmetric vortex breakdown, Part 3. Onset of periodic flow and chaotic advection. J. Fluid Mech., 234, 449-471.
7. Lopez, J.M. (1995). Unsteady swirling flow in an enclosed cylinder with reflectional symmetry. Phys. Fluids, 7, 2700-2714.
8. Lopez, J.M., and Weidman, P.D. (1996). Stability of stationary endwall boundary layers during spin-down. J. Fluid Mech., 326, 373-398.
9. Mullin, T., Kobine, J.J., Tavener, S.J., and Cliffe, K.A. (2000). On the creation of stagnation points near straight and sloped walls. Phys. Fluids, 12, 425-431.
10. Neitzel, G.P., and Davis, S.H. (1981). Centrifugal instabilities during spin-down to rest in finite cylinders. Numerical experiments. J. Fluid Mech., 102, 329-352.
11. Sørensen, J.N., and Christensen, E.A. (1995). Direct numerical simulation of rotating fluid flow in a closed cylinder. Phys. Fluids, 7(4), 764-778.
12. Valentine, D.T., and Miller, K.D. (1994). Generation of ring vortices in axisymmetric spin-down: numerical investigation. Phys. Fluids, 6, 1535-1547.
13. Valentine, D.T., and Jahnke, C.C. (1994). Flows induced in a cylinder with both endwalls rotating. Phys. Fluids, 6, 2702-2710.
14. Vogel, H.U. (1968). Experimentelle Ergebnisse über die laminare Strömung in einen zylindrischen Gehäuse mit darin rotierender Scheibe. Bericht Max-Planck-Inst. 6.