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 …

Discrete Boltzmann modeling of Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Effects of interfacial tension, viscosity, and heat conductivity

J Chen, A Xu, D Chen, Y Zhang, Z Chen - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
The two-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in compressible flow with
intermolecular interactions is probed via the discrete Boltzmann method. The effects of …

Effect of chemical reaction on mixing transition and turbulent statistics of cylindrical Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

Z Yan, Y Fu, L Wang, C Yu, X Li - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations of a three-dimensional cylindrical Richtmyer–Meshkov
instability with and without chemical reactions are carried out to explore the chemical …

Instability evolution of a shock-accelerated thin heavy fluid layer in cylindrical geometry

M Yuan, Z Zhao, L Liu, P Wang, NS Liu… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Instability evolutions of shock-accelerated thin cylindrical SF layers surrounded by air with
initial perturbations imposed only at the outer interface (ie the 'Outer'case) or at the inner …

Richtmyer–Meshkov instability of a single-mode heavy–light interface in cylindrical geometry

J Li, H Wang, Z Zhai, X Luo - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instability of a single-mode SF 6–air interface subjected to a
convergent shock is investigated experimentally. The convergent shock tube is specially …

Hydrodynamic instabilities of a dual-mode air–SF6 interface induced by a cylindrically convergent shock

Y Liang, L Liu, X Luo, CY Wen - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Shock-tube experiments are performed on the convergent Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM)
instability of a multimode interface. The temporal growth of each Fourier mode perturbation …

The transition to turbulence in rarefaction-driven Rayleigh–Taylor mixing: Effects of diffuse interface

R Wang, Y Song, Z Ma, D Ma, L Wang, P Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Effects of interface diffusion on the transition to turbulence in rarefaction-driven flows are
numerically investigated via Implicit Large-Eddy simulation. Three-dimensional, multimode …

Analysis of wave converging phenomena inside the shocked two-dimensional cylindrical water column

S Xu, W Fan, W Wu, H Wen, B Wang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Due to the curvature of the droplet surface, the propagation of transmitted waves is complex
inside a droplet impacted by an incident shock wave. The wave converging phenomena …

Experimental study on a light–heavy interface evolution induced by two successive shock waves

H Wang, Q Cao, C Chen, Z Zhai, X Luo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Richtmyer–Meshkov instability induced by two successive shock waves is experimentally
studied in a specific shock tube. To create two successive shock waves synchronously, a …

Scale-to-scale energy transfer in rarefaction-driven Rayleigh–Taylor instability-induced transitional mixing

R Wang, Y Song, Z Ma, Y Zhang, J Wang, Y Xu… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The rarefaction-driven Rayleigh–Taylor instability-induced mixing flow is numerically
investigated via large eddy simulation. Prior analyses of interfacial diffusion are conducted …