Sliced cylinder results: phenomenology and code validation

This chapter provides an overview of the flow in the sliced cylinder under various conditions, and compares the numerical output with laboratory results and the linear theory by Beardsley (1969) in order to verify the accuracy of the numerical model. This chapter is based on results presented by Griffiths & Kiss (1999) (hereafter GK99); Griffiths was responsible for all the laboratory results and their analysis (some of which also appeared in Griffiths, 1995), whereas the numerical work and its analysis were conducted entirely by myself. This chapter is largely descriptive; an analysis of the dynamics responsible for the observed phenomena is deferred until Chapter 5. As noted on page 13, all quantities are dimensionless (length, time and velocity scaled by Ho, | Ω|−1 and | Ω|Ho, respectively), unless otherwise stated.