Oscillations of a standing shock wave generated by the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

KO Mikaelian - Physical Review Fluids, 2016 - APS
In a typical Richtmyer-Meshkov experiment a fast moving flat shock strikes a stationary
perturbed interface between fluids A and B creating a transmitted and a reflected shock, both …

Experiments on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with an imposed, random initial perturbation

JW Jacobs, VV Krivets, V Tsiklashvili, OA Likhachev - Shock Waves, 2013 - Springer
A vertical shock tube is used to perform experiments on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability
with a three-dimensional random initial perturbation. A membraneless flat interface is formed …

Experimental study of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in a cylindrical converging shock tube

T Si, Z Zhai, X Luo - Laser and Particle Beams, 2014 - cambridge.org
The interaction of a cylindrical converging shock wave with an initially perturbed gaseous
interface is studied experimentally. The cylindrical converging shock is generated in an …

Velocity measurements in turbulent gaseous mixtures induced by Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

F Poggi, MH Thorembey, G Rodriguez - Physics of Fluids, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
Instantaneous velocity measurements in a gaseous mixture arising from the shock wave-
induced Richtmyer–Meshkov instability are conducted for the first time in a shock tube. Laser …

Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with a rippled reshock

Y Zhang, Y Zhao, J Ding, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The reshocked Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) is examined in three different
configurations via shock-tube experiments: RMI at a single-mode interface with a planar …

An experimental and numerical investigation of the dependency on the initial conditions of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

M Vandenboomgaerde, D Souffland, C Mariani… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The nonlinear evolution of 2D single-mode Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities is investigated
through experiments in shock tube and numerical simulations. In our shock tube, the …

On the late-time growth of the two-dimensional Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in shock tube experiments

RV Morgan, R Aure, JD Stockero… - Journal of Fluid …, 2012 - cambridge.org
In the present study, shock tube experiments are used to study the very late-time
development of the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability from a diffuse, nearly sinusoidal, initial …

A membraneless experiment for the study of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability of a shock-accelerated gas interface

MA Jones, JW Jacobs - Physics of Fluids, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
Previous Richtmyer–Meshkov instability experiments carried out in shock tubes have been
hampered by the need to separate the two gases with a thin plastic membrane. As a result …

The richtmyer-meshkov instability

M Brouillette - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2002 - annualreviews.org
The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability arises when a shock wave interacts with an interface
separating two different fluids. It combines compressible phenomena, such as shock …

Experimental study of incompressible Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

JW Jacobs, JM Sheeley - Physics of Fluids, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
The Richtmyer–Meshkov instability of a two‐liquid system is investigated experimentally.
These experiments utilize a novel technique that circumvents many of the experimental …