Evolution of length scales and statistics of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability from direct numerical simulations

VK Tritschler, M Zubel, S Hickel, NA Adams - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
In this study we present direct numerical simulation results of the Richtmyer-Meshkov
instability (RMI) initiated by Ma= 1.05, Ma= 1.2, and Ma= 1.5 shock waves interacting with a …

Three-dimensional simulation of a RichtmyerMeshkov instability with a two-scale initial perturbation

RH Cohen, WP Dannevik, AM Dimits, DE Eliason… - Physics of …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
size scale of the grid as well as transverse dimensions of the shock tube. Since pairwise
interaction of disparate-scale … of RichtmyerMeshkov instability for such a two-scale perturbation…

Rayleigh–Taylor and RichtmyerMeshkov instabilities: A journey through scales

Y Zhou, RJR Williams, P Ramaprabhu, M Groom… - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrodynamic instabilities such as Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and RichtmyerMeshkov (RM)
instabilities usually appear in conjunction with the Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instability and are …

Scaling interface length increase rates in RichtmyerMeshkov instabilities

V Kilchyk, R Nalim, C Merkle - Journal of fluids …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… of this interface through a process known as RichtmyerMeshkov (R–M) instability. The time
… As expected, the interface length increase rate scales almost linearly with the refraction-…

Permanence of large eddies in Richtmyer-Meshkov turbulence with a small Atwood number

O Soulard, F Guillois, J Griffond, V Sabelnikov… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
… -scale properties of a self-similar Richtmyer-Meshkov turbulent mixing zone with a small
Atwood number and in an infinite domain are investigated. The existence of large-scale … -scale

Impact of domain size and statistical errors in simulations of homogeneous decaying turbulence and the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

B Thornber - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
… the impact of saturation of the length scales. Experimental studies are dimensionally
constrained, and as such, independence from length scale saturation can be inferred but not …

Experimental validation of a RichtmyerMeshkov scaling law over large density ratio and shock strength ranges

B Motl, J Oakley, D Ranjan, C Weber, M Anderson… - Physics of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
… time and length scales, in an event such as a core-collapse supernova. The relevance of
shock tube experiments to ICF is that the hydrodynamics may be studied on a larger …

Turbulent mixing measurements in the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

C Weber, N Haehn, J Oakley, D Rothamer… - Physics of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
… diffusion equations with a length scale increasing as t 2/3 in the absence of dissipation. A
similar result is obtained by Youngs 18 using a length scale, velocity scale, and a simple …

Large-eddy simulation and multiscale modelling of a RichtmyerMeshkov instability with reshock

DJ Hill, C Pantano, DI Pullin - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2006 - cambridge.org
… On one hand, the presence of shocks in three-dimensional flows, whose length scale is
of the order of the mean free path, implies that the numerical method must be of a shock…

An experimental investigation of the turbulent mixing transition in the RichtmyerMeshkov instability

CR Weber, NS Haehn, JG Oakley… - Journal of fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
… Turbulent length scales In this section, turbulent length scales are measured from within the
mixing layer using the mole fraction fields. Of primary interest are the Taylor microscale and …