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Boundary-layer turbulence in experiments on quasi-Keplerian flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2017

Jose M. Lopez Open the ORCID record for Jose M. Lopez [Opens in a new window]  and
Marc Avila Open the ORCID record for Marc Avila [Opens in a new window]
Jose M. Lopez*
Affiliation:
Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Departament de Física Aplicada, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 08034, Spain Institute of Science and Technology, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
Marc Avila
Affiliation:
Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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†Email address for correspondence: jlopez@ist.ac.at
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Abstract

Most flows in nature and engineering are turbulent because of their large velocities and spatial scales. Laboratory experiments on rotating quasi-Keplerian flows, for which the angular velocity decreases radially but the angular momentum increases, are however laminar at Reynolds numbers exceeding one million. This is in apparent contradiction to direct numerical simulations showing that in these experiments turbulence transition is triggered by the axial boundaries. We here show numerically that as the Reynolds number increases, turbulence becomes progressively confined to the boundary layers and the flow in the bulk fully relaminarizes. Our findings support that turbulence is unlikely to occur in isothermal constant-density quasi-Keplerian flows.

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Geophysical and Geological Flows: Rotating flows Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 817 , 25 April 2017 , pp. 21 - 34
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