Gravity wave instability in a turbulent free-surface Taylor–Couette flow: experiments and comparison with an amplitude equation with additive noise

We present an experimental and theoretical study on the gravity-wave instability developing in a highly turbulent free-surface Taylor–Couette flow, for which only the inner cylinder rotates. Above a critical rotation speed, from an axisymmetric turbulent base state a non-axisymmetric fluctuating gra...

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Main Authors: J Martínez-Mercado, Cristóbal Arratia, Claudio Falcón, Nicolás Mujica
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/1/013039