Affiliation:
1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Abstract
Taylor–Couette flow (TCF) is often used as a simplified model for complex rotating flows in the interior of stars and accretion discs. The flow dynamics in these objects is influenced by magnetic fields. For example, quasi-Keplerian flows in Taylor–Couette geometry become unstable to a travelling or standing wave in an external magnetic field if the fluid is conducting; there is an instability even when the flow is hydrodynamically stable. This magnetorotational instability leads to the development of chaotic states and, eventually, turbulence, when the cylinder rotation is sufficiently fast. The transition to turbulence in this flow can be complex, with the coexistence of parameter regions with spatio-temporal chaos and regions with quasi-periodic behaviour, involving one or two additional modulating frequencies. Although the unstable modes of a periodic flow can be identified with Floquet analysis, here we adopt a more flexible equation-free data-driven approach. We analyse the data from the transition to chaos in the magnetized TCF and identify the flow structures related to the modulating frequencies with dynamic mode decomposition; this method is based on approximating nonlinear dynamics with a linear infinite-dimensional Koopman operator. With the use of these structures, one can construct a nonlinear reduced model for the transition.
This article is part of the theme issue ‘Taylor–Couette and related flows on the centennial of Taylor’s seminal
Philosophical Transactions
paper (part 1)’.
Funder
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
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1. Routes to turbulence in Taylor–Couette flow;Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences;2023-03-13
2. Taylor–Couette and related flows on the centennial of Taylor’s seminalPhilosophical Transactionspaper: part 2;Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences;2023-03-13