Small Atwood number Rayleigh-Taylor experiments

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1916, 2010, Pages 1663-1679

  Andrews, Malcolm J ^a   Dalziel, Stuart B ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiments; Rayleigh taylor instability; Small Atwood number; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

MIXING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

ATWOOD NUMBERS; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; HIGH FIDELITY; MIXING EXPERIMENTS; MIXING PROCESS; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; TURBULENT MIXING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77950931627     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0007     Document Type: Review

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