Numerical simulations of droplet evaporation and breakup effects on heterogeneous detonations

BJ Musick, M Paudel, PK Ramaprabhu… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Evaporation and breakup of droplets are critical phenomena in the liquid-fueled, multiphase
detonation process. Understanding the relevant conditions and times for each process is …

[HTML][HTML] Synchrotron radiography of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability driven by exploding wire arrays

J Strucka, B Lukic, M Koerner, JWD Halliday, Y Yao… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present a new technique for the investigation of shock-driven hydrodynamic phenomena
in gases, liquids, and solids in arbitrary geometries. The technique consists of a pulsed …

Simultaneous measurements of kinetic and scalar energy spectrum time evolution in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability upon reshock

CD Noble, AM Ames, R McConnell, J Oakley… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (Richtmyer, Commun. Pure Appl. Maths, vol. 13, issue 2,
1960, pp. 297–319; Meshkov, Fluid Dyn., vol. 4, issue 5, 1972, pp. 101–104) of a twice …

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 …

Improved mixing-width model for the linear stage of reshocked Richtmyer–Meshkov turbulence

F Sun, Y Song, Y Wang, Y Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulent mixing induced by reshocked Richtmyer–Meshkov instability widely occurs in both
natural phenomena, such as supernova explosions, and high-energy-density applications …

Shock-driven three-fluid mixing with various chevron interface configurations

SR West, JD Sadler, PD Powell, Y Zhou - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
When a shock wave crosses a density interface, the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability causes
perturbations to grow. Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities arise from the deposition of vorticity …

Instabilities of a circular moderately dense particle cloud impacted by an incident shock

P Zhang, H Zhang - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
Shock-driven gas-particle flows exist in a wide variety of physical systems, covering the
range from dilute to dense regime. There are a lot of fundamental questions remaining to be …

Simulations of three-layer Richtmyer–Meshkov mixing in a shock tube

JD Sadler, PD Powell, M Schalles, C Louie… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The Richtmyer–Meshkov instability causes perturbations to grow after a shock traverses a
fluid density interface. This increases the mixing rate between fluid from either side of the …

Influence of Density Ratios on Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability with Non-Equilibrium Effects in the Reshock Process

T Yang, C Lin, D Li, H Lai - Inventions, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in a two-component system during the reshock process
for various density ratios is studied through the discrete Boltzmann method. Detailed …

Convergent Richtmyer-Meshkov instability on two-dimensional tri-mode interfaces

Z Zhai, J Xu, X Luo - Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2024 - Springer
Interfacial fluid mixing driven by a shock wave is a common phenomenon that occurs
frequently in basic science research and in a variety of applications. In this work, shock-tube …