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 …

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 …

Compressive neural representations of volumetric scalar fields

Y Lu, K Jiang, JA Levine, M Berger - Computer Graphics Forum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present an approach for compressing volumetric scalar fields using implicit neural
representations. Our approach represents a scalar field as a learned function, wherein a …

Reynolds number effects on Rayleigh–Taylor instability with possible implications for type Ia supernovae

WH Cabot, AW Cook - Nature Physics, 2006 - nature.com
Spontaneous mixing of fluids at unstably stratified interfaces occurs in a wide variety of
atmospheric, oceanic, geophysical and astrophysical flows. The Rayleigh–Taylor instability …

Incompressible rayleigh–taylor turbulence

G Boffetta, A Mazzino - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Basic fluid equations are the main ingredient in the development of theories of Rayleigh–
Taylor buoyancy-induced instability. Turbulence arises in the late stage of the instability …

Artificial fluid properties for large-eddy simulation of compressible turbulent mixing

AW Cook - Physics of fluids, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
An alternative methodology is described for large-eddy simulation (LES) of flows involving
shocks, turbulence, and mixing. In lieu of filtering the governing equations, it is postulated …

The influence of initial conditions on turbulent mixing due to Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

B Thornber, D Drikakis, DL Youngs… - Journal of Fluid …, 2010 - cambridge.org
This paper investigates the influence of different three-dimensional multi-mode initial
conditions on the rate of growth of a mixing layer initiated via a Richtmyer–Meshkov …

Understanding the structure of the turbulent mixing layer in hydrodynamic instabilities

D Laney, A Mascarenhas, P Miller… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When a heavy fluid is placed above a light fluid, tiny vertical perturbations in the interface
create a characteristic structure of rising bubbles and falling spikes known as Rayleigh …

Energetics and lifetimes of local radio active galactic nuclei

RJ Turner, SS Shabala - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a model describing the evolution of Fanaroff–Riley type I and II radio active
galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the transition between these classes. We quantify galactic …