15th European Turbulence Conference 2015
August 25-28th, 2015, Delft, The Netherlands
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Experimental investigation of Taylor-Couette flow with radius ratio 0.1 to 0.3


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Presentation:
Session: Instability and Transition 3
Room: Room A
Session start: 10:30 Wed 26 Aug 2015

Sebastian Merbold   merbold@tu-cottbus.de
Affifliation: Dept. of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
Andreas Froitzheim   andreas.froitzheim@tu-cottbus.de
Affifliation: Dept. of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
Christoph Egbers   egbers@tu-cottbus.de
Affifliation: Dept. of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

Topics: - Transport and mixing, - Instability and transition, - Vortex dynamics and structure formation

Abstract:

Turbulent flow of a very wide Taylor Couette flow (radius ratio 0.1 up to 0.3) is the scope of the present work. Flow visualisation shows the existing coherent structures. Laser Doppler Velocimetry is used to analyse the local velocity behaviour and understand the flow in this geometry.