Effects of axial boundary conductivity on a free Stewartson-Shercliff layer
Abstract
The effects of axial boundary conductivity on the formation and stability of a magnetized free Stewartson-Shercliff layer (SSL) in a short Taylor-Couette device are reported. As the axial field increases with insulating endcaps, hydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz-type instabilities set in at the SSLs of the conducting fluid, resulting in a much reduced flow shear. With conducting endcaps, SSLs respond to an axial field weaker by the square root of the conductivity ratio of endcaps to fluid. Flow shear continuously builds up as the axial field increases despite the local violation of the Rayleigh criterion, leading to a large number of hydrodynamically unstable modes. In conclusion, numerical simulations of both the mean flow and the instabilities are in agreement with the experimental results.
- Authors:
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- Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1459553
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1455107
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AST-1312463; NNH15AB25I; AC02-09CH11466
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review E
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0045
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Caspary, Kyle J., Choi, Dahan, Ebrahimi, Fatima, Gilson, Erik P., Goodman, Jeremy, and Ji, Hantao. Effects of axial boundary conductivity on a free Stewartson-Shercliff layer. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063110.
Caspary, Kyle J., Choi, Dahan, Ebrahimi, Fatima, Gilson, Erik P., Goodman, Jeremy, & Ji, Hantao. Effects of axial boundary conductivity on a free Stewartson-Shercliff layer. United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063110.
Caspary, Kyle J., Choi, Dahan, Ebrahimi, Fatima, Gilson, Erik P., Goodman, Jeremy, and Ji, Hantao. Wed .
"Effects of axial boundary conductivity on a free Stewartson-Shercliff layer". United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063110. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1459553.
@article{osti_1459553,
title = {Effects of axial boundary conductivity on a free Stewartson-Shercliff layer},
author = {Caspary, Kyle J. and Choi, Dahan and Ebrahimi, Fatima and Gilson, Erik P. and Goodman, Jeremy and Ji, Hantao},
abstractNote = {The effects of axial boundary conductivity on the formation and stability of a magnetized free Stewartson-Shercliff layer (SSL) in a short Taylor-Couette device are reported. As the axial field increases with insulating endcaps, hydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz-type instabilities set in at the SSLs of the conducting fluid, resulting in a much reduced flow shear. With conducting endcaps, SSLs respond to an axial field weaker by the square root of the conductivity ratio of endcaps to fluid. Flow shear continuously builds up as the axial field increases despite the local violation of the Rayleigh criterion, leading to a large number of hydrodynamically unstable modes. In conclusion, numerical simulations of both the mean flow and the instabilities are in agreement with the experimental results.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063110},
journal = {Physical Review E},
number = 6,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {6}
}
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