Compressibility effects in Rayleigh-Taylor instability-induced flows

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

Volumn 368, Issue 1916, 2010, Pages 1681-1704

  Gauthier, S ^a   Le Creurer, B ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Compressible flows; Compressible turbulent mixing layers; Rayleigh taylor instability

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MACH NUMBER; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; STABILITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECTS; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; FINITE SPEED; HELMHOLTZ; INCOMPRESSIBLE LIMIT; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INSTABILITY CRITERION; LINEAR STABILITY; MIXING LAYERS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERFECT FLUID; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY; STATISTICAL MODELS; TURBULENT MIXING LAYERS; TURBULENT REGIME; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

EID: 77950945678     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0139     Document Type: Article

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