Secondary instabilities in shock-induced transition to turbulence

Advances in Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2004, Pages 139-148

  Vorobieff, P ^a,b   Tomkins, C ^b   Kumar, S ^b   Goodenough, C ^b   Mohamed, N G ^a   Benjamin, R F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow visualization; Hydrodynamics; Richtmyer Meshkov instability

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; GAS COLUMNS; RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY (RMI); VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

SHOCK WAVES;

EID: 4644338816     PISSN: 1353808X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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