Breakdown regimes of inertia waves in a precessing cylinder

A series of experimental studies have been made of the fluid behaviour in a completely filled, precessing, right circular cylinder. The tank was spun about its axis of symmetry and subjected to a forced precession at various excitation frequencies ω, nutation angles θ and at various Ekman numbers. This forcing excites a subset of the modes, called inertia waves, that are made possible by the Coriolis force that arises in a spinning environment. In these experiments, the fluid flow breakdown phenomena are investigated

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