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Abstract
The Rayleigh's capillary instability of a cylindrical fluid interface can be suppressed by the centrifugal force due to coaxial rotation when the outer fluid is heavier than the inner one. Thus, wave motions on the rotationally stabilized cylindrical interfaces can occur in natural and technological processes, notwithstanding the lack of coherent treatment in the literature. This work provides a supplementary linear analysis of various wave motions in a three-dimensional framework for two-phase inviscid fluid systems with cylindrical interfaces stabilized by rotation. Many previous results found in the literature are recast in a general from. With gravity acting perpendicularly to the rotation axis, the interface disturbance is considered as an externally forced wave motion. The condition for the stability of the gravity-induced interface displacement in a two-phase rotating system is found to be exactly the same as that for the one-phase case such as an air column in a rotating liquid.
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