Collaboration and competition between Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and Rayleigh-Taylor instability

F Chen, A Xu, G Zhang - Physics of fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The two-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability (RMI) system and the coexisting system
combined with Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) are simulated with a multiple-relaxation time …

Effect of viscosity on Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities

KO Mikaelian - Physical Review E, 1993 - APS
We consider the effect of viscosity on Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM)
instabilities by deriving a moment equation for fluids with arbitrary density and viscosity …

Long-term effect of Rayleigh–Taylor stabilization on converging Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

X Luo, F Zhang, J Ding, T Si, J Yang, Z Zhai… - Journal of Fluid …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a three-dimensional single-mode light/heavy
interface is experimentally studied in a converging shock tube. The converging shock tube …

Evolution of length scales and statistics of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability from direct numerical simulations

VK Tritschler, M Zubel, S Hickel, NA Adams - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
In this study we present direct numerical simulation results of the Richtmyer-Meshkov
instability (RMI) initiated by Ma= 1.05, Ma= 1.2, and Ma= 1.5 shock waves interacting with a …

Effects of the initial perturbations on the Rayleigh—Taylor—Kelvin—Helmholtz instability system

F Chen, A Xu, Y Zhang, Y Gan, B Liu, S Wang - Frontiers of Physics, 2022 - Springer
The effects of initial perturbations on the Rayleigh—Taylor instability (RTI), Kelvin—
Helmholtz instability (KHI), and the coupled Rayleigh—Taylor—Kelvin—Helmholtz instability …

On the role of rarefaction/compression waves in Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with reshock

H Li, Z He, Y Zhang, B Tian - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) with reshock is characterized with the interaction
between the mixing zone (MZ) and multiple waves, of which the process has not been fully …

Formula for growth rate of mixing width applied to Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

F Gao, Y Zhang, Z He, B Tian - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The mixing zone width and its growth rate are of great significance in the study of the
Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI). In this paper, a formula for the growth rate of the mixing …

Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities: A journey through scales

Y Zhou, RJR Williams, P Ramaprabhu, M Groom… - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrodynamic instabilities such as Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM)
instabilities usually appear in conjunction with the Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instability and are …

Numerical simulation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in initially nonuniform flows and mixing with reshock

J Bai, B Wang, T Wang, K Liu - Physical Review E, 2012 - APS
Based on previous instability experiments of the double mode perturbed interface in initially
nonuniform flows, we numerically investigate the effect of the nonuniformity of flows on the …

Numerical study of initial perturbation effects on Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in nonuniform flows

J Xiao, J Bai, T Wang - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
The effects of an initial perturbation on Richtmyer-Meshkov instability are numerically
studied by simulating the process of incident shock (Ma= 1.27) impacting different groups of …