Richtmyer - Meshkov instability of arbitrary shapes

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Mikaelian, Karnig O ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; VISCOSITY;

FOURIER EXPANSION; JETTING; RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY;

SHOCK WAVES;

INSTABILITY;

EID: 15844421588     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1848547     Document Type: Article

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