Vortex-accelerated secondary baroclinic vorticity deposition and late-intermediate time dynamics of a two-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov interface

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3730-3744

  Peng, Gaozhu ^a   Zabusky, Norman J ^a   Zhang, Shuang ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); KINETIC ENERGY; SHOCK WAVES; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

BAROCLINIC CIRCULATION; INTERFACIAL DENSITY GRADIENT; VORTICITY DEPOSITION;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; VORTEX SHEET; VORTICITY;

EID: 0345770427     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1621628     Document Type: Article

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