[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 …

A novel compressible enstrophy transport equation-based analysis of instability during Magnus–Robins effects for high rotation rates

VK Suman, P Sundaram, JK Puttam, A Sengupta… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The effects of compressibility on the instability of a two-dimensional flow past a rotating
cylinder executing high rotation rates are investigated, in detail, using a novel analysis …

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 …

Effects of velocity shear layer on detonation propagation in a supersonic expanding combustor

J Dai, F Xu, X Cai, Y Mahmoudi - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigates the mechanism of detonation propagation in a stoichiometric
hydrogen–oxygen mixture with non-uniform flow velocity entering an expanding combustor …

Studying the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in convergent geometry under high energy density conditions using the Decel platform

DA Yager-Elorriaga, FW Doss, GA Shipley… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The “Decel” platform at Sandia National Laboratories investigates the Richtmyer–Meshkov
instability (RMI) in converging geometry under high energy density conditions [Knapp et al …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling of direct-drive cylindrical implosion experiments with an Eulerian radiation-hydrodynamics code

JP Sauppe, BM Haines, S Palaniyappan… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Recent improvements to xRAGE, Los Alamos National Laboratory's Eulerian radiation-
hydrodynamics code, have enabled the computation of laser-driven experiments relevant to …

A method for examining ensemble averaging forms during the transition to turbulence in HED systems for application to RANS models

S Pellone, AM Rasmus, CA Di Stefano, EC Merritt… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper discusses a strategy to initialize a two-dimensional (2D) Reynolds-averaged
Navier–Stokes model [LANL's Besnard–Harlow–Rauenzahn (BHR) model] in order to …

Effects of the secondary baroclinic vorticity on the energy cascade in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

N Peng, Y Yang, Z Xiao - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We investigate the effect of the secondary baroclinic vorticity (SBV) on the energy cascade in
the mixing induced by the multi-mode Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI). With the aid of …

Coupled Richtmyer–Meshkov and Kelvin–Helmholtz instability on a shock-accelerated inclined single-mode interface

Q Cao, J Li, H Wang, Z Zhai, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
The coupling of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) and Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI),
referred to as RM-KHI, on a shock-accelerated inclined single-mode air–SF. The linear …

[HTML][HTML] Shock-driven hydrodynamic instability of a sinusoidally perturbed, high-Atwood number, oblique interface

AM Rasmus, CA Di Stefano, KA Flippo, FW Doss… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A shock incident on an interface will cause any initial perturbations on that interface to grow.
When the shock front is parallel to the interface, the perturbations grow due to the Richtmyer …