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Instabilities of plane Poiseuille flow with a streamwise system rotation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2008

S. MASUDA ,
S. FUKUDA  and
M. NAGATA
S. MASUDA
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
S. FUKUDA
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
M. NAGATA
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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Abstract

We analyse the stability of plane Poiseuille flow with a streamwise system rotation. It is found that the instability due to two-dimensional perturbations, which sets in at the well-known critical Reynolds number, Rc = 5772.2, for the non-rotating case, is delayed as the rotation is increased from zero, showing a stabilizing effect of rotation. As the rotation is increased further, however, the laminar flow becomes most unstable to perturbations which are three-dimensional. The critical Reynolds number due to three-dimensional perturbations at this higher rotation case is many orders of magnitude less than the corresponding value due to two-dimensional perturbations. We also perform a nonlinear analysis on a bifurcating three-dimensional secondary flow. The secondary flow exhibits a spiral vortex structure propagating in the streamwise direction. It is confirmed that an antisymmetric mean flow in the spanwise direction is generated in the secondary flow.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 603 , 25 May 2008 , pp. 189 - 206
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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