Rayleigh-Taylor instability in compressible fluids

Technical Report · Mon Nov 05 04:00:00 EST 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6438368· OSTI ID:6438368

Sturtevant, B ^[1]

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1. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA (USA). Graduate Aeronautical Labs.

This is a report of the progress during the past year of the shock-tube study of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, initiated under the sponsorship of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in September, 1982. The purpose of this research program, as stated in the original proposal, is: to investigate the nonlinear processes initiated by shock wave interaction with gas-gas interfaces. In particular, the nonlinear stage of shock-initiated Rayleigh-Taylor instability, the secondary instabilities (e.g., Kelvin-Helmholtz instability) arising therefrom and the concomitant mixing of the two fluids are of interest.''

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA); California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA (USA). Graduate Aeronautical Labs.
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6438368
• Report Number(s): UCRL-CR-105617; ON: DE91005221
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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640400* -- Fluid Physics
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
AIR
COMPRESSIBLE FLOW
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTS
FLUID FLOW
FLUIDS
GASES
INSTABILITY
INSTABILITY GROWTH RATES
IONIZING RADIATIONS
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
NONMETALS
PROGRESS REPORT
RADIATIONS
RARE GASES
RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY
SHOCK TUBES
SHOCK WAVES
X RADIATION
XENON