Drift, diffusion and divergence
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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Turbulent Taylor–Couette flow displays traces of axisymmetric Taylor vortices even at high Reynolds numbers. With this motivation, Feldmann & Avila (2025) J. Fluid Mech, 1008, R1, carry out long-time numerical simulations of axisymmetric high-Reynolds-number Taylor–Couette flow. They find that the Taylor vortices, using the only degree of freedom that remains available to them, carry out Brownian motion in the axial direction, with a diffusion constant that diverges as the number of rolls is reduced below a critical value.