TY - GEN A1 - Kurgansky, Michael V. A1 - Seelig, Torsten A1 - Klein, Marten A1 - Will, Andreas A1 - Harlander, Uwe T1 - Mean flow generation due to longitudinal librations of sidewalls of a rotating annulus T2 - Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics N2 - 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. KW - boundary layer structure KW - geophysical and geological flows KW - longitudinal libration Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2019.1692829 SN - 1029-0419 VL - 114 IS - 6 SP - 762 ER -