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🌀 Taylor-Couette Flow: Vortex Cells and the Critical Taylor Number (2D section)

2D plan view and axial section of fluid between two rotating cylinders: laminar Couette shear, the critical Taylor number near 1708, and the growth of counter-rotating Taylor vortex cells. Uses the same analytical profile and amplitude model as the 3D page, with four numerical checks.

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2D plan view and axial section of fluid between two rotating cylinders: laminar Couette shear, the critical Taylor number near 1708, and the growth of counter-rotating Taylor vortex cells. Uses the same analytical profile and amplitude model as the 3D page, with four numerical checks.

Taylor-CouetteTaylor numbervortex cellsCouette flowhydrodynamic stability

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