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Measured distortion of a laminar circular Couette flow by end effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

D. Coles
Affiliation:
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology
C. Van Atta
Affiliation:
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology

Abstract

Measurements at moderately large Reynolds numbers in a finite laminar circular Couette flow show that the tangential motion near the axial plane of symmetry is two-dimensional, within experimental accuracy, but is nevertheless strongly modified by end conditions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1966 Cambridge University Press

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References

Van Atta, C. 1966 J. Fluid Mech. 25, 49.