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差速旋转球壳实验中turbulence和相互作用惯性模的研究

A study of turbulence and interacting inertial modes in a differentially-rotating spherical shell experiment

Michael Hoff, Uwe Harlander, Santiago A. Triana

摘要:

本文研究了半径比为$η= 1/3$的差动旋转球壳(球库埃特流)实验中的惯性模。惯性模式是科里奥利恢复的线性波模式,通常出现在快速旋转的流体中。最近的实验工作表明,对于$Ω_{i}<Ω_{o}$,球库埃特流中存在惯性模,其中$Ω_i$和$Ω_o$分别是内外球的旋转速率。通过在两个固定的$Ω_{o}$上扫描来自$-2.5 < Ro = (Ω_{i}-Ω_{o})/Ω_{o} < 0$的Rossby数,我们发现了相似惯性模的存在.然而,这里描述的流动行为与以前的球形库埃特实验有很大不同。我们发现,占主导地位的惯性模式的动能显着增加,降低Rossby数,最终导致一个破波和增加的小尺度结构在临界Rossby数。在球形库埃特流中的这种转变以前没有描述过。临界Rossby数与Ekman数的比例为0 $E^{1/5}$。此外,增加小规模的功能以外的过渡转移到一个大规模增强的平均流动的切线圆柱体的能量。在这方面,我们讨论了主导惯性模式与地转Rossby模式激发次级模式,其频率匹配的三元共振条件之间的相互作用。

英文摘要:

We present a study of inertial modes in a differentially rotating spherical shell (spherical Couette flow) experiment with a radius ratio of $η= 1/3$. Inertial modes are Coriolis-restored linear wave modes which often arise in rapidly rotating fluids. Recent experimental work has shown that inertial modes exist in a spherical Couette flow for $Ω_{i}<Ω_{o}$, where $Ω_i$ and $Ω_o$ is the inner and outer sphere rotation rate. A finite number of particular inertial modes has previously been found. By scanning the Rossby number from $-2.5 < Ro = (Ω_{i}-Ω_{o})/Ω_{o} < 0$ at two fixed $Ω_{o}$, we report the existence of similar inertial modes. However, the behavior of the flow described here differs much from previous spherical Couette experiments. We show that the kinetic energy of the dominant inertial mode dramatically increases with decreasing Rossby number that eventually leads to a wave-breaking and an increase of small-scale structures at a critical Rossby number. Such a transition in a spherical Couette flow has not been described before. The critical Rossby number scales with the Ekman number as0 $E^{1/5}$. Additionally, the increase of small-scale features beyond the transition transfers energy to a massively enhanced mean flow around the tangent cylinder. In this context, we discuss an interaction between the dominant inertial modes with a geostrophic Rossby mode exciting secondary modes whose frequencies match the triadic resonance condition.

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