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 …

[HTML][HTML] Cavitation erosion by shockwave self-focusing of a single bubble

F Reuter, C Deiter, CD Ohl - Ultrasonics sonochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The ability of cavitation bubbles to effectively focus energy is made responsible for cavitation
erosion, traumatic brain injury, and even for catalyse chemical reactions. Yet, the …

Bacterial active matter

IS Aranson - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

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 …

Review of mass and momentum interactions during drop impact on a liquid film

G Liang, I Mudawar - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016 - Elsevier
Research on liquid drop impact, especially during the past two decades, has been motivated
by a need for better predictive capability in many industries. This paper will review published …

Two mechanisms of nanoparticle generation in picosecond laser ablation in liquids: the origin of the bimodal size distribution

CY Shih, R Streubel, J Heberle, A Letzel, MV Shugaev… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis of chemically clean and environmentally friendly nanoparticles through
pulsed laser ablation in liquids has shown a number of advantages over conventional …

Origins of the deflagration-to-detonation transition in gas-phase combustion

ES Oran, VN Gamezo - Combustion and flame, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes a 10-year theoretical and numerical effort to understand the
deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT). To simulate DDT from first principles, it is …

Tripled yield in direct-drive laser fusion through statistical modelling

V Gopalaswamy, R Betti, JP Knauer, N Luciani, D Patel… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Focusing laser light onto a very small target can produce the conditions for laboratory-scale
nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes. The lack of accurate predictive models, which are …

Shock-bubble interactions

D Ranjan, J Oakley, R Bonazza - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
When a shock wave propagates through a medium of nonuniform thermodynamic
properties, several processes occur simultaneously that alter the geometry of the shock …