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Centrifugal instability

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Sequence of photographs showing the evolution of the centrifugal instability. Side view. The cylinder rotates anticyclonically.
The same as above for the cylinder of larger radius
Kelvin-Helmholtz type vortices at the periphery of the unstable annular region around the cylinder

for more detail see Afanasyev & Peltier, 1998

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