The influence of initial conditions on turbulent mixing due to Richtmyer-Meshkov instability

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 654, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-139

  Thornber, B ^a   Drikakis, D ^a   Youngs, D L ^b   Williams, R J R ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

INITIAL CONDITIONS; KINETIC ENERGY SPECTRA; KINETIC-ENERGY DECAY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERTURBATION POWER; POWER LAW EXPONENT; RICHTMYER MESHKOV INSTABILITY; VOLUME FRACTION PROFILE;

MIXING;

KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 77957151979     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010000492     Document Type: Article

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