On the swirling flow between rotating coaxial disks
Abstract
A system of ordinary differential equations which describe the steady flow of a Navier-Stokes fluid is considered. The fluid is contained between two parallel, infinite, plane disks. The disks are rotating about a common axis with constant angular velocities. A proof is provided concerning the existence of a solution of the differential equations for the case in which the larger angular velocity is less than a constant C, roughly equal to 1.5. A solution exists also if the disks rotate in the same direction and the difference of the squares of the angular velocities is less than the square of C.
- Publication:
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Journal of Differential Equations
- Pub Date:
- July 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0022-0396(75)90072-8
- Bibcode:
- 1975JDE....18..423E
- Keywords:
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- Coaxial Flow;
- Navier-Stokes Equation;
- Parallel Plates;
- Rotating Disks;
- Steady Flow;
- Swirling;
- Angular Velocity;
- Boundary Value Problems;
- Differential Equations;
- Existence Theorems;
- Rotating Fluids;
- Turbulent Flow;
- Uniqueness Theorem;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer