Vortex paradigm for accelerated inhomogeneous flows: Visiometrics for the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Environments

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 31, Issue , 1999, Pages 495-536

  Zabusky, Norman J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated flows; Vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); VORTEX FLOW; INTERNET; MORPHOLOGY; VISCOMETERS;

ACCELERATED INHOMOGENEOUS FLOWS; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW;

ACCELERATION; INHOMOGENEOUS FLOW; RAYLEIGH WAVE; VORTEX;

EID: 0033489603     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.31.1.495     Document Type: Article

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