transitional vortices in wide-gap spherical annulus flow过渡漩涡差距球形环空流.pdfVIP

TRANSITIONAL VORTICES IN WIDE-GAP SPHERICAL ANNULUS FLOW E. O. IFIDON Received 19 August 2004 and in revised form 6 May 2005 We develop a semianalytic formulation suitable for solving the Navier-Stokes equations governing the induced steady, axially symmetric motion of an incompressible viscous fluid confined in a wide gap between two differentially rotating concentric spheres. The method is valid for arbitrarily high Reynolds number and aids in the presentation of multiple steady-state flow patterns and their bifurcations. In the case of a rotating inner sphere and a stationary outer sp