Experiments on the late-time development of single-mode Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Jacobs, J W ^a   Krivets, V V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SHOCK TUBES; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY; VORTEX CORES; VORTEX STRUCTURES; WAVE NUMBER;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

INSTABILITY; MODEL; VORTEX;

EID: 15844418287     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1852574     Document Type: Article

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