Connections between centrifugal, stratorotational and radiative instabilities in viscous Taylor-Couette flow

Colin Leclercq, Florian Nguyen, Rich R. Kerswell

The `Rayleigh line' $\mu ={\eta }^2$, where $\mu ={\Omega }_o/{\Omega }_i$ and $\eta =r_i/r_o$ are respectively the rotation and radius ratios between inner (subscript `i') and outer (subscript `o') cylinders, is…