A numerical study of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability driven by cylindrical shocks

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 974-992

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Graham, Mary Jane ^b,c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXPLOSIONS; FUSION REACTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SHOCK WAVES; STABILITY;

CYLINDRICAL SHOCKS; NONLINEAR GROWTH RATES; RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY; SUPERNOVA;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0032048470     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869624     Document Type: Article

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