Shock gaseous cylinder interactions: Dynamically validated initial conditions provide excellent agreement between experiments and numerical simulations to late-intermediate time

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1203-1216

  Zhang, Shuang ^a,b   Zabusky, Norman J ^a   Peng, Gaozhu ^a   Gupta, Sandeep ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

EVOLVING STRUCTURES; RICHTMYER-MESHKOV ENVIRONMENT; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE CYLINDER; VORTICITY;

GAS CYLINDERS;

PHYSICS;

EID: 2442700100     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1651483     Document Type: Article

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