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Self-similar decay of high Reynolds number Taylor-Couette turbulence.

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Lohse,  Detlef
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Max Planck Society;

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Verschoof, R. A., Huisman, S. G., van der Veen, R. C. A., Sun, C., & Lohse, D. (2016). Self-similar decay of high Reynolds number Taylor-Couette turbulence. Physical Review Fluids, 1(6): 062402. doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.062402.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002C-38F7-E
Abstract
We study the decay of high-Reynolds-number Taylor-Couette turbulence, i.e., the turbulent flow between two coaxial rotating cylinders. To do so, the rotation of the inner cylinder (Re-i = 2 x 10(6), the outer cylinder is at rest) is stopped within 12 s, thus fully removing the energy input to the system. Using a combination of laser Doppler anemometry and particle image velocimetry measurements, six decay decades of the kinetic energy could be captured. First, in the absence of cylinder rotation, the flow-velocity during the decay does not develop any height dependence in contrast to the well-known Taylor vortex state. Second, the radial profile of the azimuthal velocity is found to be self-similar. Nonetheless, the decay of this wall-bounded inhomogeneous turbulent flow does not follow a strict power law as for decaying turbulent homogeneous isotropic flows, but it is faster, due to the strong viscous drag applied by the bounding walls. We theoretically describe the decay in a quantitative way by taking the effects of additional friction at the walls into account.