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On a class of unsteady three-dimensional Navier Stokes solutions relevant to rotating disc flows: Threshold amplitudes and finite time singularitiesA class of exact steady and unsteady solutions of the Navier Stokes equations in cylindrical polar coordinates is given. The flows correspond to the motion induced by an infinite disc rotating with constant angular velocity about the z-axis in a fluid occupying a semi-infinite region which, at large distances from the disc, has velocity field proportional to (x,-y,O) with respect to a Cartesian coordinate system. It is shown that when the rate of rotation is large, Karman's exact solution for a disc rotating in an otherwise motionless fluid is recovered. In the limit of zero rotation rate a particular form of Howarth's exact solution for three-dimensional stagnation point flow is obtained. The unsteady form of the partial differential system describing this class of flow may be generalized to time-periodic equilibrium flows. In addition the unsteady equations are shown to describe a strongly nonlinear instability of Karman's rotating disc flow. It is shown that sufficiently large perturbations lead to a finite time breakdown of that flow whilst smaller disturbances decay to zero. If the stagnation point flow at infinity is sufficiently strong, the steady basic states become linearly unstable. In fact there is then a continuous spectrum of unstable eigenvalues of the stability equations but, if the initial value problem is considered, it is found that, at large values of time, the continuous spectrum leads to a velocity field growing exponentially in time with an amplitude decaying algebraically in time.
Document ID
19910006678
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Hall, Philip (Manchester Univ. (England). Hampton, VA., United States)
Balakumar, P. (High Technology Corp.)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1990
Subject Category
Aerodynamics
Report/Patent Number
ICASE-90-86
NASA-CR-187482
NAS 1.26:187482
AD-A231564
Accession Number
91N15991
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS1-18605
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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