Experiments on the three-dimensional incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Chapman, P R ^a   Jacobs, J W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTEX FLOW;

ATWOOD NUMBER; LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33746714333     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2214647     Document Type: Article

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