A general buoyancy-drag model for the evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 347-353

  Srebro, Yair ^a,b   Elbaz, Yoni ^a,b   Sadot, Oren ^a,b   Arazi, Lior ^c   Shvarts, Dov ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Buoyancy drag model; Direct numerical simulation; Hydrodynamic instability; Shock tube experiment

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GROWTH (MATERIALS); HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SHOCK TUBES;

ATWOOD NUMBER; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY; RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 1642577230     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034603213094     Document Type: Article

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