The mixing transition in Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 511, Issue , 2004, Pages 333-362

  Cook, Andrew W ^a   Cabot, William ^a   Miller, Paul L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY CURRENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

MASS FLUX; MIXING ZONE; WAVE NUMBER; WAVELENGTH;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

INSTABILITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXING; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TAYLOR DISPERSION; TRANSITION FLOW;

EID: 3843150794     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112004009681     Document Type: Article

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