@misc{KurganskySeeligKleinetal., author = {Kurgansky, Michael V. and Seelig, Torsten and Klein, Marten and Will, Andreas and Harlander, Uwe}, title = {Mean flow generation due to longitudinal librations of sidewalls of a rotating annulus}, series = {Geophysical \& Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics}, volume = {114}, journal = {Geophysical \& Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics}, number = {6}, issn = {1029-0419}, doi = {10.1080/03091929.2019.1692829}, pages = {762}, abstract = {Laboratory experiments with a rotating cylindrical annulus arereported that reveal a prograde jet, which is adjacent to a (longitu-dinally) librating inner straight cylindrical wall. Here, wall libration isrealised as a time-harmonic modulation of the inner cylinder's rota-tion rate. The outer cylindrical wall and bottom and top lids rotatewith constant angular velocity. The main purpose of our study is tocontribute to a qualitative and quantitative understanding of non-linearities that are present in oscillating, but centrifugally stable,vertical boundary layers frequently encountered in rotating wall-bounded flows. We consider a problem that is in a sense comple-mentary to that of previous works that focused on oscillating Ekmanlayers but neglected the vertical Stokes-Stewartson layers. A sim-ple analytical model is proposed that is able to predict the magni-tude and spatial structure of the emerging prograde near-wall jet interms of nonlinearity inherent in the inner cylinder's boundary layerdynamics.}, language = {en} } @misc{GhasemiKleinHarlanderetal., author = {Ghasemi, Abouzar and Klein, Marten and Harlander, Uwe and Kurgansky, Michael V. and Schaller, Eberhard and Will, Andreas}, title = {Mean flow generation by G{\"o}rtler vortices in a rotating annulus with librating side walls}, series = {Physics of Fluids}, volume = {28}, journal = {Physics of Fluids}, number = {056603}, doi = {10.1063/1.4948406}, pages = {1 -- 23}, abstract = {Time periodic variation of the rotation rate of an annulus induces in supercritical regime an unstable Stokes boundary layer over the cylinder side walls, generating G{\"o}rtler vortices in a portion of a libration cycle as a discrete event. Numerical results show that these vortices propagate into the fluid bulk and generate an azimuthal mean flow. Direct numerical simulations of the fluid flow in an annular container with librating outer (inner) cylinder side wall and Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations as diagnostic equations are used to investigate generation mechanism of the retrograde (prograde) azimuthal mean flow in the bulk. First, we explain, phenomenologically, how absolute angular momentum of the bulk flow is mixed and changed due to the propagation of the G{\"o}rtler vortices, causing a new vortex of basin size. Then we investigate the RANS equations for intermediate time scale of the development of the G{\"o}rtler vortices and for long time scale of the order of several libration periods. The former exhibits sign selection of the azimuthal mean flow. Investigating the latter, we predict that the azimuthal mean flow is proportional to the libration amplitude squared and to the inverse square root of the Ekman number and libration frequency and then confirms this using the numerical data. Additionally, presence of an upscale cascade of energy is shown, using the kinetic energy budget of fluctuating flow.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KleinGhasemiSeeligetal., author = {Klein, Marten and Ghasemi, Abouzar and Seelig, Torsten and Borcia, Ion-Dan and Harlander, Uwe and Will, Andreas}, title = {Mean flow generation and inertial wave attractors in a librating annulus: DNS and theory}, series = {European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 13 April - 17 May 2015}, booktitle = {European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 13 April - 17 May 2015}, publisher = {European Geophysical Society}, address = {Katlenburg-Lindau}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KleinBorciaEgbersetal., author = {Klein, Marten and Borcia, Ion-Dan and Egbers, Christoph and Ghasemi, Abouzar and Harlander, Uwe and Kurgansky, Michael V. and Schaller, Eberhard and Seelig, Torsten and Will, Andreas}, title = {Inertial Waves and Wave Excitation Mechanisms in Annular Cavities: Simulations, Experiments and Theory}, series = {European Turbulence Conference ETC14, Lyon, 2013}, booktitle = {European Turbulence Conference ETC14, Lyon, 2013}, pages = {2}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KleinGhasemiHarlanderetal., author = {Klein, Marten and Ghasemi, Abouzar and Harlander, Uwe and Will, Andreas}, title = {Inertial wave excitation and wave attractors in a librating annulus: DNS}, series = {European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014}, booktitle = {European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 02 May 2014}, publisher = {European Geophysical Society}, address = {Katlenburg-Lindau}, language = {en} } @misc{KleinSeeligKurganskyetal., author = {Klein, Marten and Seelig, Torsten and Kurgansky, Michael V. and Ghasemi, Abouzar and Borcia, Ion-Dan and Will, Andreas and Schaller, Eberhard and Egbers, Christoph and Harlander, Uwe}, title = {Inertial wave excitation and focusing in a liquid bounded by a frustum and a cylinder}, series = {Journal of Fluid Mechanics}, journal = {Journal of Fluid Mechanics}, number = {vol. 751}, issn = {1750-6859}, doi = {10.1017/jfm.2014.304}, pages = {255 -- 297}, abstract = {The mechanism of localized inertial wave excitation and its efficiency is investigated for an annular cavity rotating with Ω0 . Meridional symmetry is broken by replacing the inner cylinder with a truncated cone (frustum). Waves are excited by individual longitudinal libration of the walls. The geometry is non-separable and exhibits wave focusing and wave attractors. We investigated laboratory and numerical results for the Ekman number E ≈ 10-6. inclination α = 5.71◦ and libration amplitudes ε 0.2 within the inertial wave band 0 < ω < 2Ω0 . Under the assumption that the inertial waves do not essentially affect the boundary-layer structure, we use classical boundary-layer analysis to study oscillating Ekman layers over a librating wall that is at an angle α = 0 to the axis of rotation. The Ekman layer erupts at frequency ω = f∗, where f∗ ≡ 2Ω0 sin α is the effective Coriolis parameter in a plane tangential to the wall. For the selected inclination this eruption occurs for the forcing frequency ω/Ω0 = 0.2. For the librating lids eruption occurs at ω/Ω0 = 2. The study reveals that the frequency dependence of the total kinetic energy Kω of the excited wave field is strongly connected to the square of the Ekman pumping velocity wE (ω) that, in the linear limit, becomes singular when the boundary layer erupts. This explains the frequency dependence of non-resonantly excited waves. By the localization of the forcing, the two configurations investigated, (i) frustum libration and (ii) lids together with outer cylinder in libration, can be clearly distinguished by their response spectra. Good agreement was found for the spatial structure of low-order wave attractors and periodic orbits (both characterized by a small number of reflections) in the frequency windows predicted by geometric ray tracing. For 'resonant' frequencies a significantly increased total bulk energy was found, while the energy in the boundary layer remained nearly constant. Inertial wave energy enters the bulk flow via corner beams, which are parallel to the characteristics of the underlying Poincar{\´e} problem. Numerical simulations revealed a mismatch between the wall-parallel mass fluxes near the corners. This leads to boundary-layer eruption and the generation of inertial waves in the corners.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KleinGhasemiSeeligetal., author = {Klein, Marten and Ghasemi, Abouzar and Seelig, Torsten and Borcia, Ion-Dan and Harlander, Uwe and Will, Andreas}, title = {DNS of inertial wave attractors in a librating annulus with height-dependent gap width}, series = {15th European turbulence conference (ETC), Delft, The Netherlands (2015)}, booktitle = {15th European turbulence conference (ETC), Delft, The Netherlands (2015)}, abstract = {Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of inertial wave attractors have been carried out in a librating Taylor-Couette system with broken mirror symmetry in the radial-axial cross-section. The inertial wave excitation mechanism and its localisation at the edges was clarified by applying boundary layer theory. Additional resonance peaks in the simulated response spectra were found to agree with low-order wave attractors obtained by geometric ray tracing. Numerics and theory are in qualitative agreement with recent lab experiments.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KleinGhasemiSeeligetal., author = {Klein, Marten and Ghasemi, Abouzar and Seelig, Torsten and Borcia, Ion-Dan and Harlander, Uwe and Will, Andreas}, title = {DNS of inertial wave attractors in a librating annular cavity with a height-dependent gap}, series = {ICTW 19, Book of Abstracts, 19th International Couette-Taylor Workshop, June 24 - 26, 2015 Cottbus, Germany}, booktitle = {ICTW 19, Book of Abstracts, 19th International Couette-Taylor Workshop, June 24 - 26, 2015 Cottbus, Germany}, address = {Cottbus}, pages = {122 -- 123}, language = {en} }