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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 618, Issue -, Pages 305-322Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008004230
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- french Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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We address the issue of the convective or absolute nature of the instability of core-annular pipe flows, in experiments using two miscible fluids of equal density but different viscosities, the core fluid being much less viscous than the wall one. We use a concentric co-current injection of the two fluids, An axisymmetric parallel base state is obtained downstream the injector. The core radius R-1 and the Reynolds number Re of the so-obtained base state are varied independently due to the control of the flow rate of each fluid. However, a downstream destabilization of this base state was observed within the explored range of the two control parameters R-1 and Re. Moreover, the fixed location of this destabilization, observed for some particular parameters, suggests an absolute nature of the instability. We present a tentative delineation of the nature (convective or absolute) of the instability and discuss the accessible measurements to experimentally address this issue.
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