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The diffusion driven flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in a closed circular cylindrical container with a rotating cylindrical boundary and stationary end disks is numerically and experimentally studied. The numerical solutions are obtained using an upwind finite difference scheme and are validated by comparison with the experimental results and with earlier reported computational results obtained by using different numerical schemes. Further numerical results are obtained for an extended range of Reynolds number and aspect ratio of the cylinder.
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Saci, R., Bellamy-Knights, P.G. Diffusion driven rotating flow in a cylindrical container. Acta Mechanica 126, 45–57 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01172798
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01172798