@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} }