Weakly Swirling Flows through a 90.DEG. Bend.

A weakly nonlinear mechanism for mode selection in swirling jets

The unstable spectrum of swirling gas flows

The asymptotic structure of the discrete spectrum of a compressible inviscid swirling flow with arbitrary radial distributions of density, pressure and velocity is described for disturbances with large wavenumbers. It is shown that discrete eigenmodes are unstable when a criterion derived by Eckhoff & Storesletten (1978) is satisfied. In general, these modes are characterized by a length scale ...

Pressure fluctuations in swirling turbulent flows

We report measurements of pressure fluctuations in swirling turbulent flows

Correction to the Taylor hypothesis in swirling flows

We present experimental results on the analysis of turbulent velocity measurements in the flow that develops in the gap between two coaxial counter-rotating disks (von K£rm£n swirling flow). In the absence of a well-defined mean velocity we introduce the use of a "local Taylor hypothesis" to obtain spatial information from hot-wire measurement at a fixed location. The results are in agreement w...

Collapse, Symmetry Breaking, and Hysteresis in Swirling Flows

The paper reviews striking features of swirling flows—collapse, swirl generation, vortex breakdown, hysteresis, and axisymmetry breaking—and the mechanisms involved with the help of conical similarity solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. The strong accumulation of axial and angular momenta, observed in tornadoes and flows over delta wings, corresponds to collapse, i.e. the singularity deve...