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 …

[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 …

Evaluation of turbulent mixing transition in a shock-driven variable-density flow

M Mohaghar, J Carter, B Musci, D Reilly… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The effect of initial conditions on transition to turbulence is studied in a variable-density
shock-driven flow. Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) evolution of fluid interfaces with two …

The transition to turbulence in shock-driven mixing: effects of Mach number and initial conditions

M Mohaghar, J Carter, G Pathikonda… - journal of fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The effects of incident shock strength on the mixing transition in the Richtmyer–Meshkov
instability (RMI) are experimentally investigated using simultaneous density–velocity …

Review of experimental Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in shock tube: from simple to complex

Z Zhai, L Zou, Q Wu, X Luo - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instability is regarded as a central role for understanding the
hydrodynamic processes involved in inertial confinement fusion, supersonic combustion and …

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 …

Large-amplitude effects on interface perturbation growth in Richtmyer–Meshkov flows with reshock

X Guo, T Si, Z Zhai, X Luo - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Experimental and theoretical studies on the Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instability of
heavy/light gaseous interfaces with reshock are performed. Both small and large initial …

Three-dimensional simulations of reshocked inclined Richtmyer-Meshkov instability: Effects of initial perturbations

M Mohaghar, J McFarland, D Ranjan - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
The effect of initial perturbations on the evolution of the inclined Richtmyer-Meshkov
turbulent mixing layer before and after reshock initiated by a shock wave with Mach number …

Experimental investigation of the inclined interface Richtmyer–Meshkov instability before and after reshock

J McFarland, D Reilly, S Creel, C McDonald, T Finn… - Experiments in …, 2014 - Springer
An experimental study on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) is presented, which used
a new experimental facility at Texas A&M University built for conducting shock-accelerated …

Two-length-scale turbulence model for self-similar buoyancy-, shock-, and shear-driven mixing

BE Morgan, O Schilling, TA Hartland - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
The three-equation kLa turbulence model [B. Morgan and M. Wickett, Three-equation model
for the self-similar growth of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities, Phys …