Review on hydrodynamic instabilities of a shocked gas layer

Y Liang, X Luo - Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2023 - Springer
Hydrodynamic instabilities induced by a shock wave can be observed in both natural
phenomena and engineering applications, and are frequently employed to study gas …

Hydrodynamic instabilities of two successive slow/fast interfaces induced by a weak shock

Y Liang, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Shock-induced instability developments of two successive interfaces have attracted much
attention, but remain a difficult problem to solve. The feedthrough and reverberating waves …

Effects of obstacles on shock-induced perturbation growth

H Wang, H Wang, Z Zhai, X Luo - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Effects of obstacles on interface evolution and mixing width induced by Richtmyer–Meshkov
instability are investigated experimentally and numerically. In the experiment, the soap film …

New interface formation method for shock–interface interaction studies

J Li, Q Cao, H Wang, Z Zhai, X Luo - Experiments in Fluids, 2023 - Springer
We propose a new interface formation method for shock–interface interaction studies by
using the super-hydrophobic–oleophobic surface instead of filaments to constrain the soap …

Convergent Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on two-dimensional dual-mode interfaces

J Xu, H Wang, Z Zhai, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
We report the first shock-tube experiments on two-dimensional dual-mode air–SF interfaces
with different initial spectra subjected to a convergent shock wave. The convergent shock …

Divergent Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a heavy gas layer

D Zhang, J Ding, T Si, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Experiments on divergent Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instability at a heavy gas layer are
performed in a specially designed shock tube. A novel soap-film technique is extended to …

The phase effect on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability of a fluid layer

Y Liang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Shock-induced finite-thickness fluid layer evolution is investigated numerically and
theoretically. Specifically, two-dimensional helium layers consisting of two interfaces owning …

Hydrodynamic instabilities of a dual-mode air–SF6 interface induced by a cylindrically convergent shock

Y Liang, L Liu, X Luo, CY Wen - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Shock-tube experiments are performed on the convergent Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM)
instability of a multimode interface. The temporal growth of each Fourier mode perturbation …

On shock-induced evolution of a gas layer with two fast/slow interfaces

Y Liang, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The shock-induced evolution of a gas layer with two fast/slow interfaces is investigated
theoretically and experimentally. Specifically, the gas layer is located between a lighter gas …

Experimental study on a light–heavy interface evolution induced by two successive shock waves

H Wang, Q Cao, C Chen, Z Zhai, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Richtmyer–Meshkov instability induced by two successive shock waves is experimentally
studied in a specific shock tube. To create two successive shock waves synchronously, a …