Numerical solutions and laser-Doppler measurements of spin-up

Journal of Fluid Mechanics - Tập 85 Số 4 - Trang 609-639 - 1978
A. Warn‐Varnas1,2, W. W. Fowlis3,4, Steve Piacsek1, Sang Myung Lee3
1Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. 20375.
2Present address: Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity, Bay St Louis, Mississippi. 39520
3Florida State University, Tallahassee
4Present address: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama 35812

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The spin-up flow in a cylinder of homogeneous fluid has been examined both experimentally and numerically. The primary motivation for this work was to check numerical solution schemes by comparing the numerical results with laboratory measurements obtained with a rotating laser-Doppler velocimeter. The laser-Doppler technique is capable of high accuracy with small space and time resolution, and disturbances of the flow are virtually negligible. A series of measurements was made of the zonal flow over a range of Ekman numbers (1·06 × 10−3≤E≤ 3·30 × 10−3) and Rossby numbers (0·10 [les ]|ε| [les ] 0·33) at various locations in the interior of the flow. These measurements exceed previous ones in accuracy. The weak inertial modes excited by the impulsive start are detectable. The numerical simulations used the primitive equations in axisymmetric form and employed finite-difference techniques on both constant and variable grids. The number of grid points necessary to resolve the Ekman layers was determined. A thorough comparison of the simulations and the experimental measurements is made which includes the details of the amplitude and frequency of the inertial modes. Agreement to within the experimental tolerance is achieved. Analytical results for conditions identical to those in the experiments are not available but some similar linear and nonlinear theories are also compared with the experiments.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Tập 85 Số 4

609-639

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