Dynamics of two-dimentional Rayleigh-Taylor bubbles for fluids with a finite density contrast

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2190-2197

  Abarzhi, Snezhana I ^a   Glimm, James ^b,c   Lin, An der ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

COHERENT STRUCTURE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BUBBLE VELOCITY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID INTERFACE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MIXING;

EID: 0042283615     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1583732     Document Type: Article

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