Смещения предела устойчивости течения при модуляции скорости вращения

The possibilities of the control of stability limit location were experimentally investigated in spherical Couette flow. The inner sphere rotational rate is periodically varied about non-zero average value, the outer sphere is fixed. Instability in the form of travelling azimuthal waves, the same as at stationary rotation, is caused by increasing of average rotational rate. Flow velocity measurements were carried out by laser Doppler anemometer. It was shown, that when modulation frequency become close to eigenfrequency of linear mode, both flow destabilization and stabilization were possible depending on modulation amplitude.

Experimental studies of surface waves inside a cylindrical container

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of surface waves excited by oscillations from a cylindrical sidewall. Particle-imaging-velocimetry measurements with fluorescent particles were used to determine the flow patterns near the sidewall of the cylindrical fluid container and to identify the locations of the evolving air–water interfaces. The high-frequency wall oscillations created four jets that originate at the cylindrical sidewall. Four vortex streets shed from the jets propagate from the sidewall to the centre of the container and subsequently excite a low-frequency gravity wave. The interaction between this gravitational surface wave and the high-frequency capillary waves was found to be responsible for creating droplet splash at the water surface. This phenomenon was first described as ‘Long-Xi’ or ‘dragon wash’ in ancient China. The physical processes for generating the droplet ejection, including the circular capillary waves, azimuthal waves, streaming jets and low-frequency gravity waves, are described in this paper.

Effects of wall compliance on the linear stability of Taylor–Couette flow

The stability of the laminar flow in the narrow gap between infinitely long concentric cylinders, the inner of which rotates, is examined for the case of compliant bounding walls, modelled as thin cylindrical shells supported by rigid frames through arrays of springs and dampers. Sufficiently soft walls have a destabilizing influence on the axisymmetric Taylor vortices produced by the centrifugal force, although the effect is limited to modes with large axial wavelengths. Due to the walls flexibility, hydroelastic modes are generated. Complex modal exchanges are observed, as function of the wall properties and the Reynolds number. For axisymmetric modes an asymptotic analysis is conducted in the limit of small axial wavenumber, to show the correspondence between such exchanges and singularities in the analytical solutions. While the axisymmetric modes dominate the spectrum when the walls are rigid or very mildly compliant, a critical non-zero azimuthal wavenumber exists for which the hydroelastic modes become more unstable. Shorter azimuthal waves are favoured by increasing spring stiffness.

Dynamics of a sessile drop in forced vibration

The interfacial dynamics of a sessile water drop was investigated experimentally. The low-viscosity drop was forced by an underlying diaphragm driven vertically by a piezoelectric actuator. This high-frequency forcing produced very low diaphragm displacements, even at high acceleration amplitudes. As the driving amplitude was increased from zero, the drop exhibited several transitions to states of increasing spatio-temporal complexity. The first state of the forced drop consisted of harmonic axisymmetric standing waves that were present for even the smallest diaphragm motion. Wave modes up to 14 were observed an compared to theoretical results. As the forcing amplitude increased above a critical value, a parametrically driven instability occurred that resulted in the appearance of subharmonic azimuthal waves along the contact line. The critical accelerations and the resulting wavenumbers of the azimuthal waves were documented. For larger values of the forcing amplitude, the subharmonic azimuthal waves coupled with the harmonic axisymmetric waves to produce a striking new lattice-like wave pattern. With a further increase in the forcing amplitude, the lattice mode disappeared and the interface evolved into a highly disordered state, dominated by subharmonic wave motion. The characteristics of the lattice and pre-ejection modes were documented with phase-locked measurements and spectral analysis. Finally, as the forcing amplitude increased above another critical value, the interface broke up via droplet ejection from individual wave crests.