The growth of fractal dimension of an interface evolution from the interaction of a shock wave with a rectangular block of SF6

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4158-4162

  Ng, Hoi Dick ^a   Abderrahmane, Hamid Ait ^b   Bates, Kevin R ^c   Nikiforakis, Nikos ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Richtmyer Meshkov instability; Shock wave; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; SHEAR FLOW; SHOCK WAVES; STABILITY; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TURBULENCE;

BOX-COUNTING METHOD; FRACTAL THEORY; INTERFACE EVOLUTION; MODEL-BASED OPC; MULTI-COMPONENT MODELING; PLANAR SHOCK WAVES; RECTANGULAR BLOCK; RICHTMYER MESHKOV INSTABILITY; SHOCK-WAVES;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 79957924325     PISSN: 10075704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2011.03.016     Document Type: Article

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