Gortler vortices in wall jet flow on a rotating cylinder

Hot-wire anemometry, smoke visualization and nonlinear calculations were used to study the wall jet on a cylinder with rotation. It was found that streamwise vortices are amplified in convex wall jet flow without rotation and that the maximum amplitude was higher than for the concave case. Furthermore, the transition region was located downstream compared with the concave wall jet. Rotation was found to destabilize the convex wall jet, i.e., the transition region appeared upstream compared with nonrotation. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.