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Effect of Differential Rotation of Oscillating Inner Core on Steady Flow Instability in a Rotating Sphere

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A comparative analysis of steady flow excited by an oscillating core in a rotating spherical cavity with a liquid is carried out in different cases: when the core is free and performs differential rotation, and when the core differential rotation is absent. In the cavity reference frame the core, whose density is less than the density of the liquid, oscillates near the cavity center under the action of transverse to the rotation axis external force field. In both cases, the oscillations lead to the appearance of almost two-dimensional axisymmetric azimuthal steady flow, with several inflection points in the velocity profile. An increase in the amplitude of core oscillations leads to a loss of stability of the axisymmetric flow. In the supercritical region, there is a series of threshold transitions associated with various instability modes. The instability manifests itself in the development of an azimuthal periodic system of vortices elongated parallel to the rotation axis. The modes differ in an azimuthal wavenumber, the location of the vortices (distance from the axis of rotation), and the azimuthal drift rate of the vortex system relative to the cavity. It is shown that the core differential rotation modifies the azimuthal velocity profile, resulting in a change in the instability thresholds. Due to an additional azimuthal flow, the drift velocity of the same type vortices in the two cases is different. The effect of the core differential rotation on the dispersion relations for various instability modes has been investigated.

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The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 18-71-10053).

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Subbotin, S., Kozlov, V. Effect of Differential Rotation of Oscillating Inner Core on Steady Flow Instability in a Rotating Sphere. Microgravity Sci. Technol. 32, 825–836 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-020-09806-y

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