Wave-number dependence of the transitions between traveling and standing vortex waves and their mixed states in the Taylor-Couette system.

Previous numerical investigations of the stability and bifurcation properties of different nonlinear combination structures of spiral vortices in a counter-rotating Taylor-Couette system that were done for fixed axial wavelengths are supplemented by exploring the dependence of the vortex phenomena waves on their wavelength. This yields information about the experimental and numerical accessibility of the various bifurcation scenarios. Also backward bifurcating standing waves with oscillating amplitudes of the constituent traveling waves are found.