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 …

Review of theoretical modelling approaches of Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities and turbulent mixing

SI Abarzhi - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review the theoretical developments in the field of Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities and
turbulent mixing, discuss what is known and what is not known about the phenomenon, and …

Hydrodynamic instabilities of two successive slow/fast interfaces induced by a weak shock

Y Liang, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
Shock-induced instability developments of two successive interfaces have attracted much
attention, but remain a difficult problem to solve. The feedthrough and reverberating waves …

Richtmyer–Meshkov instability: theory of linear and nonlinear evolution

K Nishihara, JG Wouchuk… - … of the Royal …, 2010‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A theoretical framework to study linear and nonlinear Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) is
presented. This instability typically develops when an incident shock crosses a corrugated …

Growth of a Richtmyer-Meshkov turbulent layer after reshock

B Thornber, D Drikakis, DL Youngs, RJR Williams - Physics of Fluids, 2011‏ - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a numerical study of a reshocked turbulent mixing layer using high-
order accurate Implicit Large-Eddy-Simulations (ILES). Existing theoretical approaches are …

Interlinking Rayleigh–Taylor/Richtmyer–Meshkov interfacial mixing with variable acceleration and canonical Kolmogorov turbulence

SI Abarzhi - Physics of Fluids, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
Canonical turbulence and Rayleigh–Taylor/Richtmyer–Meshkov mixing with variable
acceleration are paradigmatic complexities in science, mathematics, and engineering, with …

What is certain and what is not so certain in our knowledge of Rayleigh–Taylor mixing?

SI Anisimov, RP Drake, S Gauthier… - … of the Royal …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Past decades significantly advanced our understanding of Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) mixing. We
briefly review recent theoretical results and numerical modelling approaches and compare …

High-amplitude effect on single-mode Richtmyer–Meshkov instability of a light–heavy interface

H Wang, H Wang, Z Zhai, X Luo - Physics of Fluids, 2023‏ - pubs.aip.org
The high-amplitude effect on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability flow characteristics is
investigated by examining the interaction of a planar shock with a single-mode air–SF 6 …

Review of nonlinear dynamics of the unstable fluid interface: conservation laws and group theory

SI Abarzhi - Physica Scripta, 2008‏ - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we briefly overview some theoretical approaches and empirical modeling
approaches of the nonlinear Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities, which have been developed over …

A consistent rescaled momentum transport method for simulating large density ratio incompressible multiphase flows using level set methods

S Ghods, M Herrmann - Physica Scripta, 2013‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Many multiphase flows relevant to natural phenomena and technical applications are
characterized by large density ratios between the phases or fluids. Numerical simulations of …