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On flow between counter-rotating cylinders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

C. A. Jones
C. A. Jones
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School of Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
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Abstract

Axisymmetric flows between counter-rotating cylinders of varying radius ratio are examined. The stability of these flows to non-axisymmetric disturbances is considered, and the results of these calculations are compared with experiments.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 120 , July 1982, pp. 433 - 450
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© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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