Effects of WENO flux reconstruction order and spatial resolution on reshocked two-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 805-836

  Latini, Marco ^a   Schilling, Oleg ^b   Don, Wai Sun ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixing properties; Numerical dissipation; Reshock; Richtmyer Meshkov instability; Weighted essentially non oscillatory (WENO) method

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MIXING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ESSENTIALLY NON-OSCILLATORY; FLUX RECONSTRUCTION; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER; MIXING PROPERTY; NUMERICAL DISSIPATION; RESHOCK; RICHTMYER MESHKOV INSTABILITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; WEIGHTED ESSENTIALLY NON-OSCILLATORY METHOD;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 33846382050     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.06.051     Document Type: Article

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