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—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 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 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 Carles, 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 …

Freeze‐out and the effect of compressibility in the RichtmyerMeshkov instability

KO Mikaelian - Physics of Fluids, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
Richtmyer’s prescription. Previous calculations and experiments on the RichtmyerMeshkov
instability are analyzed, it is explained why they have not detected the failure of Richtmyer’s …

Velocity measurements in turbulent gaseous mixtures induced by RichtmyerMeshkov instability

F Poggi, MH Thorembey, G Rodriguez - Physics of Fluids, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
action of a shock wave with such a TMZ will intensify the turbulent mixing by baroclinic effect.
… Indeed, the presence of different viscosities and thermal conductivities in the mixing zone …

Experimental study of the RichtmyerMeshkov instability of incompressible fluids

CE Niederhaus, JW Jacobs - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2003 - cambridge.org
… that the fluid viscosity is important. Thus, the primary effect of viscosity in these experiments
is to reduce the number of coils observed in the vortex cores. Viscosity causes the vorticity to …

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]. …