Surface switching of rotating fluid in a cylinder

Flow transitions in the surface switching of rotating fluid

Polygons on a rotating fluid surface.

We report a novel and spectacular instability of a fluid surface in a rotating system. In a flow driven by rotating the bottom plate of a partially filled, stationary cylindrical container, the shape of the free surface can spontaneously break the axial symmetry and assume the form of a polygon rotating rigidly with a speed different from that of the plate. With water, we have observed polygons...

Development of a novel method in TRMC for a Binary Gas Flow Inside a Rotating Cylinder

A new approach to calculate the axially symmetric binary gas flow is proposed Dalton’s law for partial pressures contributed by each species of a binary gas mixture (argon and helium) is incorporated into numerical simulation of rarefied axially symmetric flow inside a rotating cylinder using the time relaxed Monte-Carlo (TRMC) scheme and the direct simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) method. The res...

Self-propulsion of a counter-rotating cylinder pair in a viscous fluid

“Hidden” Momentum in a Charged, Rotating Cylinder

The cylinder (of radius a) and the plates of the capacitor (in the planes y = ±b) can move independently and without friction in the x-direction, where the z-axis is that of the cylinder. That axis can be electrically charged with the opposite sign to that of the cylinder such that the cylinder as a whole has zero charge. The (linear, isotropic) medium between the capacitor plates, including th...