Supercritical transition to turbulence in an inertially driven von Kármán closed flow
Supercritical transition to turbulence in an inertially driven von Kármán closed flow
We study the transition from laminar flow to fully developed turbulence for an inertially-driven von Karman flow between two counter-rotating large impellers fitted with curved blades over a wide range of Reynolds number (100 - 1 000 000). The transition is driven by the destabilisation of the azimuthal shear-layer, i.e., …