Daniel S. Zimmerman, S.A. Triana, and D.P. Lathrop University of Maryland Physics, Geology, IREAP
NG43B-1492: Angular Momentum Transport in Turbulent Spherical Couette Flow
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Three Meter Experiment & Parameters
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The experiment is an approximately 2.92m diameter spherical tank of water mounted on bearings with an independently rotating 1.02m diameter inner sphere. Maximum possible rotation rates are 4Hz for the outer sphere and about 12Hz for the inner sphere, driven by a pair of 250kW electric motors with variable frequency drives. The torques on the boundariesprovide a global measurement of angular momentum flux Four ports in the lid allow measurements of pressure and wall shear stress 60cm distant from the axis and ultrasoundvelocimetry is possible 10-30cm from these ports.
Turbulent Multiple Stability
As the Rossby number Ro is varied, we observe many different turbulent flow states that arecharacterized by different torque demand and mean velocity profiles, and different large scale(m=1 and m=2 for Ro>2) coherent wave motions. In certain ranges of Ro the flow undergoes spontaneous transitions between adjacent states, leading to the bimodal distributions of torqueand azimuthal velocity velocity shown on the right. One transition is analyzed in detail here:
arxiv.org/abs/1107.5082Phys. Fluids 23, 065104 (2011)
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Pressure power spectral density vs. Ro, E = 1.6e-7 showing changes inlarge scale wave motions.
Bimodal probability distributionsof azimuthal velocity (top) and torque (bottom) Ro = 2.13, E = 2.1e-7
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Time series of azimuthal velocity near port (top) and inner sphere torque (bottom) Ro = 2.33 E = 5e-7.
νρ 2 riG= Torque
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The torque with the outer sphere stationary depends on Reynolds number in a way that is typical of turbulent drag, torque nearly proportional to the square of Reynolds number. We use the fit to this data to normalize the torque when the outer sphere revolves as well.
Shear Stress Concentration - Transport Inhomogeneity
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Normalizing measured torque by the torque predicted same Reynolds number withoutrotation nearly collapses the torque data for all measured parameters. Here the torque has been conditioned on flow state in those ranges of Ro where the torque is bimodal. The largescatter at low Rossby number is likely due to shaft seal drag dominating the torque. The implication of the collapse presented here is that the angular momentum transport factorizes, with a Rossby dependent prefactor unique to the geometry and a typical turbulent scaling withRe. The same behavior with a different Rossby dependence has been observed in Taylor-Couette flow, see: Paoletti and Lathrop, Phys. Rev. Lett. , 106 024501a (2011) andvan Gils et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024502 (2011).
Torque with Overall Rotation
G = f(Ro) g(Re)
Angular Momentum Transport Barrier? Wall shear & VelocityMeasurement Location
Fast zonal transportbarrier with waves? High Torque Low Torque
Dye Movie QR Links Ro = 2.33
The data for the H/L state transition are consistent with the formation of an angular momentumtransport barrier near the inner sphere. Fast fluid trapped at, above, and below the inner spherelowers the drag. The further transitions may be related to intensification of the transport barrier.Dye visualization along with the torque and measurements far above the inner sphere corroborates faster flow at all vertical distances above the inner sphere in the L state, stronglyreduced in the H state, but global velocimetry is needed to measure angular velocity profiles.
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We make measurements of the wall shear stress 60cm from the axis using a homemadeconstant temperature anemometry system with low cost RTD sensors. Using the wall shear stress in-situ calibration, we normalize the wall shear stress by that expected at the sameReynolds number with the outer sphere stationary. The normalized wall shear stress peaks at the same Ro where the normalized torque is minimized.
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The same anti-correlation between the long term mean wall shear stress on the outer sphere and the torque on the inner sphere is observed in shorter term fluctuations in those quantities at transition Rossby numbers, two of which are shown here. Torque (top) and wall shear stress(bottom) are normalized by their mean values. In all cases, the lower torque is concurrent with higher shear stress, implying a different pattern of wall shear stress on the outer sphere as Ro is varied. At about Ro = 7, there seems to be a peak in “upward” transport of angular momentum but an overall reduction in transport.
Future Work - Hydromagnetic Experiments
The hydrodynamic phase of this experiment using water has finished as we work to prepare for experiments with liquid sodium metal. As of this meeting the experiment is 73% full of sodium and we await shipment of the remaining material. Above left are the original drums that we have used, in the center is a thermal image of the sphere 66% full of warm sodium, and on the right is a drum with heaters and insulating mantle. We will recieve theremaining sodium this month and hope that the three meter experiment will soon show self-excited dynamo action in a laboratory experiment geometrically similar to Earth’s core.
YouTube Sodium Fill Time Lapse
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Omega F-2020RTD Array
Low Cost CTA Schematic
More information:Ph.D. Thesis
complex.umd.edu/papers/zimmerman_thesis.pdf
Taylor-Couette:Paoletti and Lathrop (2011)
arxiv.org/abs/1011.3475
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