Effect of viscosity on Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities

KO Mikaelian - Physical Review E, 1993 - APS
… We consider the effect of viscosity on Rayleigh-Taylor … To calculate the stabilizing effect
of viscosity on the RM instability we will follow Richtmyer's approach of treating a shock as an …

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

P Carlès, S Popinet - European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids, 2002 - Elsevier
… theoretical prediction of the effect of viscosity on the RM … [11]), in which only viscosity and
non-linear couplings were … provided which includes the effects of viscosity, surface tension …

Effects of surface tension and viscosity on the growth rates of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities

SI Sohn - Physical Review E, 2009 - APS
… instability is known as RichtmyerMeshkov RM instability 2 . The … Since Rayleigh 1 and
Richtmyer 2 first considered these … surface tension in fluids of arbitrary viscosity and find linear and …

Effect of viscosity and surface tension on the growth of Rayleigh–Taylor instability and RichtmyerMeshkov instability induced two fluid interfacial nonlinear structure

MR Gupta, R Banerjee, LK Mandal, R Bhar… - Indian Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
… The effect of viscous drag and surface tension on the nonlinear two fluid interfacial … –Taylor
instability and RichtmyerMeshkov instability have been investigated. Viscosity and surface …

Effects of transverse magnetic field and viscosity on the RichtmyerMeshkov instability

Z Qiu, Z Wu, J Cao, D Li - Physics of Plasmas, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
… Recently, it was found that viscosity can suppress the “kink-… under the effects of magnetic
field and viscosity with a single-… magnetic field and the viscosity act as stabilizing mechanisms; …

Effects of viscosity and elasticity on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

YB Sun, JJ Tao, RH Zeng, XT He - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
… The impulsively accelerated Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) of a fluid-solid interface is
… but decay due to the combined effects of elasticity and viscosity. The dispersion relation of …

Viscous nonlinear theory of RichtmyerMeshkov instability

P Carlès, S Popinet - Physics of Fluids, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
… We propose a quantitative prediction of the effect of viscosity on the weakly nonlinear impulsive
RichtmyerMeshkov instability between two fluids of arbitrary density and viscosity. This …

The richtmyer-meshkov instability

M Brouillette - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2002 - annualreviews.org
… The effect of these localized pressure variations across the interface is to increase the
penetration of the heavy fluid into the light one near the crests and the penetration of the lighter …

Reynolds number effects on the single-mode Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

B Walchli, B Thornber - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
… cases at relatively high Reynolds number, the effects of viscosity are less well understood.
Mikaelian made early investigations into the effects of viscosity on the RTI and RMI [18]. …

Microscopic RichtmyerMeshkov instability under strong shock

P Sun, J Ding, S Huang, X Luo, W Cheng - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
… The present finding illustrates the significant role of the viscosity effect in RMI flows at a small
scale (low Re). We stress again that the viscosity effect is a primary reason for the different …