15th European Turbulence Conference 2015
August 25-28th, 2015, Delft, The Netherlands
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Boundary-layer-flow instability in a rapidly rotating and strong precessing sphere


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

Shigeo Kida   skida@doshisha.ac.jp
Affifliation: Doshisha University


Topics: - Instability and transition

Abstract:

The linear stability analysis of the steady flow is performed in a rapidly rotating sphere with strong precession. It is shown that the localized mode destabilizing the boundary-layer flow determines the stability boundary, giving the asymptote, $Po\propto Re^{2/3}$, which is consistent with the results obtained by direct numerical simulation.