Isolated solitary vortex solutions for the Ekman Couette layer

✍ Scribed by Norbert P. Hoffmann; Friedrich H. Busse

• Book ID: 104373153
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0997-7546
• DOI: 10.1016/s0997-7546(00)00117-5

✦ Synopsis

Isolated solutions have been found describing solitary vortex motions in a fluid layer between two parallel plates moving relative to each other in a system that rotates about an axis normal to the plates. The solutions are called isolated since they do not seem to be connected by bifurcations to any other known solutions of the problem. The solitary vortex solutions are unstable with respect to three-dimensional disturbances, but attempts to find three-dimensional steady states have not yet been successful.