Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities in multilayer fluids with surface tension

KO Mikaelian - Physical Review A, 1990 - APS
… -Taylor and the Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities in fluids undergoing a constant acceleration
or a shock, respectively. We analyze the general case of N fluids with arbitrary densities and …

The phase effect on the RichtmyerMeshkov instability of a fluid layer

Y Liang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
… finite-thickness fluid layer … RichtmyerMeshkov instability (RMI). A general linear model is
first established to quantify the phase effect on the RMI of the two interfaces of an arbitrary fluid

Rayleigh–Taylor and RichtmyerMeshkov instabilities in finite‐thickness fluid layers

KO Mikaelian - Physics of Fluids, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
… case of a finite-thickness fluid layer, of density p2 and thickness t, with semi-infinite fluids of
density p1 on one … Zhang, “General properties of a multilayer stratified fluids system,” Phys. …

Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities and mixing in stratified cylindrical shells

KO Mikaelian - Physics of Fluids, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
… Basic fluid flows occur in one of three geometries: planar, cylindrical, or spherical. … fluids
are present, the basic flow may be parallel or perpendicular to the interface(s) between the fluids

RichtmyerMeshkov instability: theory of linear and nonlinear evolution

K Nishihara, JG Wouchuk… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… corrugated material interface separating two fluids with different thermodynamic properties.
fluids, based on the dynamics of the contact surface circulation. RMI in solids and liquids is …

… simulations of a shock interacting with successive interfaces using the discontinuous Galerkin method: The multilayered RichtmyerMeshkov and Rayleigh–Taylor …

MT Henry de Frahan, P Movahed, E Johnsen - Shock Waves, 2015 - Springer
… In our setup, a shock impacts up to four adjacent fluids with … have on each other and the fluid
mixing as a function of time … and tends to reverse the RichtmyerMeshkov instability as the …

Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities and mixing in stratified spherical shells

KO Mikaelian - Physical Review A, 1990 - APS
… A few years ago we extended the Rayleigh-Taylor problem to an arbitrary number of
fluids, and similarly for the Richtmyer-Meshkov problem. … to multilayer

The effect of viscosity, surface tension and non-linearity on RichtmyerMeshkov instability

P Carlès, S Popinet - European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids, 2002 - Elsevier
… model of the RichtmyerMeshkov instability between two viscous fluids with surface tension
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Dependence of growth patterns and mixing width on initial conditions in RichtmyerMeshkov unstable fluid layers

BJ Balakumar, GC Orlicz, CD Tomkins… - Physica …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
… case of single interfaces rather than fluid layers. This is reflected … dominated post-shock
flows in fluid layers is limited to just a … In this paper, we contribute to the scarce literature on fluid

Shock tube experiments on the three-layer RichtmyerMeshkov instability

M Schalles, C Louie, K Peabody, J Sadler, Y Zhou… - … of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A vertical shock tube is used for experiments on the three-layer RichtmyerMeshkov instability.
Two closely spaced membrane-less interfaces are formed by the flow of two different …