Experimental study of a Neimark-Sacker bifurcation in axially forced Taylor-Couette flow

Publication Year
2006

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

A variation of the classical Taylor-Couette system is studied where, with the outer cylinder stationary, the inner cylinder rotates at constant angular velocity while executing harmonic oscillations in the axial direction. Experiments reveal a Hopf (Neimark-Sacker) bifurcation from a limit cycle to a torus. Alternating bands of frequency-locked and quasi-periodic flow are observed and identified. Power spectral plots and (delay reconstructed) Poincare maps are used to characterize the temporal dynamics. Results are presented on the rotation number variation across parameter space, the shape and growth of frequency-locked resonance horns, and the spatial development of the flow considerably beyond the primary transition surface.

Journal
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Volume
558
Pages
1-32
Date Published
07/2006
ISBN
0022-1120
Short Title
J. Fluid Mech.