Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov 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 Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM)
instabilities usually appear in conjunction with the Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instability and are …

Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instability induced flow, turbulence, and mixing. II

Y Zhou - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instabilities are well-known
pathways towards turbulent mixing layers, in many cases characterized by significant mass …

Physics principles of inertial confinement fusion and US program overview

OA Hurricane, PK Patel, R Betti, DH Froula… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) has existed as a field of study since the 1970s, but the field
was born out of the Cold War. In the decades since the 1960s, pioneering research …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulent mixing and transition criteria of flows induced by hydrodynamic instabilities

Y Zhou, TT Clark, DS Clark, S Gail Glendinning… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In diverse areas of science and technology, including inertial confinement fusion (ICF),
astrophysics, geophysics, and engineering processes, turbulent mixing induced by …

Modeling collapse and accretion in turbulent gas clouds: implementation and comparison of sink particles in AMR and SPH

C Federrath, R Banerjee, PC Clark… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Star formation is such a complex process that accurate numerical tools are needed to
quantitatively examine the mass distribution and accretion of fragments in collapsing …

The formation of massive star systems by accretion

MR Krumholz, RI Klein, CF McKee, SSR Offner… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Massive stars produce so much light that the radiation pressure they exert on the gas and
dust around them is stronger than their gravitational attraction, a condition that has long …

Fornax: A flexible code for multiphysics astrophysical simulations

MA Skinner, JC Dolence, A Burrows… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the design and implementation of our new multigroup,
multidimensional radiation hydrodynamics code F ornax and provides a suite of code tests …

Reynolds number effects on Rayleigh–Taylor instability with possible implications for type Ia supernovae

WH Cabot, AW Cook - Nature Physics, 2006 - nature.com
Spontaneous mixing of fluids at unstably stratified interfaces occurs in a wide variety of
atmospheric, oceanic, geophysical and astrophysical flows. The Rayleigh–Taylor instability …

A comparative study of disc–planet interaction

M de Val-Borro, RG Edgar, P Artymowicz… - Monthly Notices of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We perform numerical simulations of a disc–planet system using various grid-based and
smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) codes. The tests are run for a simple setup where …

CASTRO: A new compressible astrophysical solver. I. Hydrodynamics and self-gravity

AS Almgren, VE Beckner, JB Bell, MS Day… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new code, CASTRO, that solves the multicomponent compressible
hydrodynamic equations for astrophysical flows including self-gravity, nuclear reactions, and …