A vortex model for Richtmyer-Meshkov instability accounting for finite Atwood number

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Likhachev, Oleg A ^a   Jacobs, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DATA ACQUISITION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILITY;

ATWOOD NUMBERS; FINITE ATWOOD NUMBERS; RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY; UNIFORM DENSITY FLUIDS;

VORTEX FLOW;

MODEL; VORTEX;

EID: 15844412608     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1863276     Document Type: Article

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