High Reynolds Number Flow Between Rotating Coaxial Disks; A Numerical Experiment.

Abstract

A pair of nonlinear ordinary differential equations that arise in the study of fluid flow between rotating coaxial disks is studied numerically. Collocation at Gaussian points is used to find approximate solutions to these equations for different values of the ratio of the angular velocity of one disk to the other. Recently J. B. McLeod and S. V. Parter have proved rigorous analytic results for the case when the disks rotate with equal and opposite angular velocity. A comparison between their analytic results and the numerical results is presented for this case.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 08, 1975
Accession Number
ADA016686

Entities

People

  • John H. Cerutti

Organizations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Mathematics
  • Reynolds Number

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Computer Science.