A Cone Rotating in a Fluid Translates

Centrifugal Instability over a Rotating Cone

In this study, we provide a mathematical description of the onset of counter-rotating circular vortices observed for a family of slender rotating cones (of half-angles 15◦, 30◦ and 45◦) in quiescent fluid. In particular, we apply appropriate scalings and apply a change of coordinates, accounting for the effects of streamline curvature. A combined large Reynolds number and large vortex wavenumbe...

Thermal Convection of Rotating Micropolar Fluid in Hydromagnetics Saturating A Porous Medium

This paper deals with the theoretical investigation of the thermal instability of a thin layer of electrically conducting micropolar rotating fluid, heated from below in the presence of uniform vertical magnetic field in porous medium. A dispersion relation is obtained for a flat fluid layer, contained between two free boundaries using a linear stability analysis theory, and normal mode analysi...

Onset of Turbulence in a Rotating Fluid

Barotropic elliptical dipoles in a rotating fluid

Barotropic f -plane dipolar vortices were generated in a rotating fluid and a comparison was made with the so-called supersmooth f -plane solution which—in contrast to the classical Lamb–Chaplygin solution—is marked by an elliptical separatrix and a doubly continuously differentiable vorticity field. Dyevisualization and high-resolution particle-tracking techniques revealed that the observed di...

Mach cone in a shallow granular fluid.

We study the V -shaped wake (Mach cone) formed by a cylindrical rod moving through a thin, vertically vibrated granular layer. The wake, analogous to a shock (hydraulic jump) in shallow water, appears for rod velocities vR greater than a critical velocity c . We measure the half angle theta; of the wake as a function of vR and layer depth h . The angle satisfies the Mach relation, sin theta=c/v...