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 …

Experiments on the late-time development of single-mode Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

JW Jacobs, VV Krivets - Physics of Fluids, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The late-time development of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability is studied in shock tube
experiments. This investigation makes use of the experimental apparatus and visualization …

An elaborate experiment on the single-mode Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

L Liu, Y Liang, J Ding, N Liu, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
High-fidelity experiments of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a single-mode air/interface
are carried out at weak shock conditions. The soap-film technique is extended to create …

Richtmyer–Meshkov instability: theory of linear and nonlinear evolution

K Nishihara, JG Wouchuk… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A theoretical framework to study linear and nonlinear Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) is
presented. This instability typically develops when an incident shock crosses a corrugated …

Simulations and model of the nonlinear Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

G Dimonte, P Ramaprabhu - Physics of Fluids, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The nonlinear evolution of the Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instability is investigated using
numerical simulations with the FLASH code in two dimensions. The purpose of the …

Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a quasi-single-mode interface

Y Liang, Z Zhai, J Ding, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Experiments on Richtmyer–Meshkov instability of quasi-single-mode interfaces are
performed. Four quasi-single-mode air/interfaces with different deviations from the single …

Explicit expressions for the evolution of single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities at arbitrary Atwood numbers

KO Mikaelian - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
We present explicit analytic expressions for the evolution of the bubble amplitude in
Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer-Meshkov RM instabilities. These expressions are valid …

Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on two-dimensional multi-mode interfaces

Y Liang, L Liu, Z Zhai, J Ding, T Si… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Shock-tube experiments on eight kinds of two-dimensional multi-mode air–SF interface with
controllable initial conditions are performed to examine the dependence of perturbation …

Mechanism and modelling of the secondary baroclinic vorticity in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

N Peng, Y Yang, J Wu, Z Xiao - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We elucidate the effect of the secondary baroclinic vorticity (SBV) on the Richtmyer–
Meshkov instability (RMI) accelerated by a weak incident shock and develop a vortex-based …

Experiments on the three-dimensional incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

PR Chapman, JW Jacobs - Physics of Fluids, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
The three-dimensional (3D) Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of incompressible, miscible
liquids with a 3D single-mode initial perturbation is investigated. This study uses the …