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Instabilities in visco-thermodiffusive swirling flows
Oleg N. Kirillov, Innocent Mutabazi
An analytical theory is presented for linear, local, short-wavelength instabilities in swirling flows, in which axial shear, differential rotation, radial thermal stratification, v…
Unification theory of instabilities of visco-diffusive swirling flows
Oleg N. Kirillov, Innocent Mutabazi
A universal theory of linear instabilities in swirling flows, occurring in both natural settings and industrial applications, is formulated. The theory encompasses a wide range of…
Thermally-operating regimes for a three-layer liquid metal battery
Riyad Hassaine, Olivier Crumeyrolle, Innocent Mutabazi
Thermally-operating regimes of a three-layer liquid metal battery are determined in terms of the aspect ratio. The heat exchange between the battery container and the environment i…
Short wavelength local instabilities of a circular Couette flow with radial temperature gradient
Oleg N. Kirillov, Innocent Mutabazi
We perform a linearized local stability analysis for short-wavelength perturbations of a circular Couette flow with the radial temperature gradient. Axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetri…
Effect of the number of vortices on the torque scaling in Taylor-Couette flow
B. Martínez-Arias, J. Peixinho, O. Crumeyrolle +1
Torque measurements in Taylor-Couette flow, with large radius ratio and large aspect ratio, over a range of velocities up to a Reynolds number of 24 000 are presented. Following a…