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The stability of viscous flow between rotating cylinders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

S. Chandrasekhar
S. Chandrasekhar
Affiliation:
Yerkes Observatory and Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago.
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As is well known the stability of viscous flow between two concentric rotating cylinders was first successfully treated both experimentally and theoretically by G. I. Taylor [1]. The mathematical problem underlying this classical investigation in hydrodynamic stability is the following:

The hydrodynamical equations allow the stationary solution

for the rotational velocity at a distance r from the axis of rotation, where A and B are constants related to the angular velocities Ω1 and Ω2 with which the inner and outer cylinders (of radii R1 and R2, R2 > R1) are rotated. Thus

where

Type
Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , June 1954 , pp. 5 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1954

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