Effect of shear on Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at small Atwood number

Akula, Bhanesh; Andrews, Malcolm J.; Ranjan, Devesh

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.033013

Title: Effect of shear on Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at small Atwood number

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Authors:: Akula, Bhanesh; Andrews, Malcolm J.; Ranjan, Devesh

Publication Date:: Thu Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2013

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1103940

Resource Type:: Publisher's Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review E

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 87; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1539-3755

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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                    Akula, Bhanesh, Andrews, Malcolm J., and Ranjan, Devesh. Effect of shear on Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at small Atwood number.  United States: N. p., 2013. 
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                    Akula, Bhanesh, Andrews, Malcolm J., & Ranjan, Devesh. Effect of shear on Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at small Atwood number.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.033013

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"Effect of shear on Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at small Atwood number".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.033013.

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  title        = {Effect of shear on Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at small Atwood number},

  author       = {Akula, Bhanesh and Andrews, Malcolm J. and Ranjan, Devesh},

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