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The steady axisymmetric flow between two concentric spheres with inner one rotating and outer one stationary is further investigated for the gap width of σ=0.18. A continuation method is applied to study the bifurcation structure of the discretized governing equations. The resulting Jacobian matrix along with a test function approach is used to locate bifurcation points. A bifurcation diagram of the flow is constructed for Re≤1500.
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Luo, WJ., Yang, RJ. (1998). Numerical simulation of a spherical Taylor-Couette flow bifurcation by a continuation method. In: Bruneau, CH. (eds) Sixteenth International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 515. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0106583
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