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On the stability of viscous flow between eccentric rotating cylinders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

G. S. Ritchie
G. S. Ritchie
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, English Electric Company Limited, Whetstone, Leicester
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Abstract

The stability of viscous flow between eccentric cylinders is analysed for the case in which the inner cylinder rotates while the outer cylinder remains stationary, and where the difference in radii of the cylinders is small in comparison with their mean radius. The linearised equations governing the marginal stability of axially periodic disturbances are derived in general for the case where the cylinders are infinitely long, and are solved approximately to give estimates of the critical Taylor number at which vortex flow occurs for a range of relative eccentricity of the cylinders.

The results give an upper bound to the stability boundary, and certain results of DiPrima are used to establish a lower bound, and consequently the stability boundary is well established for eccentricity ratios less than about 0·6. One important conclusion is that for a considerable range of eccentricity ratio the flow is less stable than when the cylinders are concentric.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , 9 April 1968 , pp. 131 - 144
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© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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