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 on hydrodynamic instabilities of a shocked gas layer

Y Liang, X Luo - Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2023 - Springer
Hydrodynamic instabilities induced by a shock wave can be observed in both natural
phenomena and engineering applications, and are frequently employed to study gas …

[HTML][HTML] Late-time growth rate, mixing, and anisotropy in the multimode narrowband Richtmyer–Meshkov instability: The θ-group collaboration

B Thornber, J Griffond, O Poujade, N Attal… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulent Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) is investigated through a series of high
resolution three-dimensional simulations of two initial conditions with eight independent …

On the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability evolving from a deterministic multimode planar interface

VK Tritschler, BJ Olson, SK Lele, S Hickel… - Journal of Fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
We investigate the shock-induced turbulent mixing between a light and a heavy gas, where
a Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) is initiated by a shock wave with Mach number …

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 …

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 …

Dynamics of multilayer Rayleigh–Taylor instability at moderately high Atwood numbers

P Suchandra, D Ranjan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
This paper investigates the multilayer Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) using statistically
stationary experiments conducted in a gas tunnel. Employing diagnostics such as particle …

On shock-induced light-fluid-layer evolution

Y Liang, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Shock-induced light-fluid-layer evolution is firstly investigated experimentally and
theoretically. Specifically, three quasi-one-dimensional helium gas layers with different layer …

On Richtmyer–Meshkov finger collisions in a light fluid layer under reshock conditions

X Guo, Z Cong, T Si, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
The fingers known as bubbles (spikes) resulting from the penetration of light (heavy) fluids
into heavy (light) fluids are significant large-scale features of Richtmyer–Meshkov 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 …