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Inviscid and viscous global stability of vortex rings

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Naveen Balakrishna Open the ORCID record for Naveen Balakrishna [Opens in a new window] ,
Joseph Mathew Open the ORCID record for Joseph Mathew [Opens in a new window]  and
Arnab Samanta Open the ORCID record for Arnab Samanta [Opens in a new window]
Naveen Balakrishna*
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru560012, India
Joseph Mathew
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru560012, India
Arnab Samanta
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru560012, India Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur208016, India
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†Email address for correspondence: naveenb@iisc.ac.in
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Abstract

We perform inviscid and viscous, global, linear stability analyses of vortex rings which are compared with asymptotic theories and numerical simulations. We find growth rates of rings to be very sensitive to the details of vorticity distribution, in a way not accounted for in asymptotic theories, clearly demonstrated in our analyses of equilibrated rings–ring base flows initially obtained from Gaussian rings evolved to a quasi-steady state before any instabilities set in. Such equilibrated rings with the same $\epsilon = a/R$, the ratio of core radius $a$ to ring radius $R$, but evolved with different viscosities, have inviscid growth rates differing by up to 9 %, though the differences in vorticity at any point are small. In contrast, the growth rates of rings with a Gaussian vorticity distribution are found to be up to 33 % smaller than the inviscid asymptotic theories over $0.4 > \epsilon > 0.05$. We attribute these differences to the nature of velocity fields at $O(\epsilon ^2)$, between equilibrated and Gaussian rings, where the former shows a good quantitative match with the asymptotic theories. Additionally, there are some differences with previous direct numerical simulations (DNS), but in very close quantitative agreement with our DNS results. Our calculations provide a new relation capturing the near-linear dependence of growth rates on the reciprocal of a strain rate-based Reynolds number $\widehat Re$. Importantly, our equilibrated ring calculations do tend to the inviscid limit of asymptotic theories, once corrections for ring radius evolution and equilibrated distribution are imposed, unlike for Gaussian rings.

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Vortex Flows: Vortex instability

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 902 , 10 November 2020 , A9
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