Review of theoretical modelling approaches of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities and turbulent mixing

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

Volumn 368, Issue 1916, 2010, Pages 1809-1828

  Abarzhi, Snezhana I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Invariants and scaling and symmetry; Rayleigh taylor instabilities; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

MIXING PROCESS; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL MODELLING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TURBULENT MIXING;

MIXING;

EID: 77950934326     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0020     Document Type: Review

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