Localization and spreading of contact discontinuity layers in simulations of compressible dissipationless flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 348-364

  Zabusky, N J ^a   Gupta, S ^a   Gulak, Y ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated flows; Contact discontinuity localization; Contact discontinuity spreading; Richtmyer Meshkov

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED FLOWS; COMPRESSIBLE EULER EQUATIONS; CONTACT DISCONTINUITIES; CONTACT DISCONTINUITY LOCALIZATION; CONTACT DISCONTINUITY SPREADING; LAYER WIDTH; LOCALISATION; PIECEWISE PARABOLIC METHOD; RICHTMYER-MESHKOV;

EID: 0038008328     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(02)00045-1     Document Type: Article

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