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Recent experiments (Weisberg, Kevrekidis & Smits 1997) have demonstrated that the centrifugal instability leading to Taylor vortex flow can be controlled by harmonic oscillations of the inner cylinder in the axial direction. Marques & Lopez (1997) used linear Floquet analysis to study the control of the instability for the flow between two infinite length co-axial cylinders. However, nonlinear end-wall effects have not been investigated previously for the physically realistic case of finite length co-axial cylinders. In this paper, we use an accurate and efficient spectral-projection scheme for the nonlinear axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations to examine the endwalls effects and the breaking of space-time symmetries.
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Lopez, J.M., Shen, J. (1998). A numerical study of periodically forced flows using a spectral-projection method. In: Bruneau, CH. (eds) Sixteenth International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 515. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0106582
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