ISSN:
1619-6937
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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Physics
Notes:
Summary In this paper we consider the temporal stability of flow in a pipe: the flow is driven by uniform steady suction through the pipe wall which is also accelerating. A previous study of the temporal stability in which the swirl was taken to be zero is generalised so that the effect of a swirl perturbation is considered. As in the earlier work a similarity form of solution is used. We find that the flow becomes unstable at a much lower value of the Reynolds number than in the zero swirl case. Further, from the integration of the diffusion equation we find that, after the loss of stability, the solution ‘explodes’ at finite time, and we relate this structure to vortex stretching and the possible advent of turbulen motion.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01274234
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