Observation and analysis of emergent coherent structures in a high-energy-density shock-driven planar mixing layer experiment

Doss, Forrest William; Flippo, Kirk Adler; Merritt, Elizabeth Catherine

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.023101

Title: Observation and analysis of emergent coherent structures in a high-energy-density shock-driven planar mixing layer experiment

Journal Article · Wed Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review E

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.023101· OSTI ID:1402602

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Coherent emergent structures have been observed in a high-energy-density supersonic mixing layer experiment. A millimeter-scale shock tube uses lasers to drive Mbar shocks into the tube volume. The shocks are driven into initially solid foam (60 mg/cm³) hemicylinders separated by an Al or Ti metal tracer strip; the components are vaporized by the drive. Before the experiment disassembles, the shocks cross at the tube center, creating a very fast (ΔU > 200 km/s) shear-unstable zone. After several nanoseconds, an expanding mixing layer is measured, and after 10+ ns we observe the appearance of streamwise-periodic, spanwise-aligned rollers associated with the primary Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of mixing layers. We additionally image roller pairing and spanwise-periodic streamwise-aligned filaments associated with secondary instabilities. New closures are derived to connect length scales of these structures to estimates of fluctuating velocity data otherwise unobtainable in the high-energy-density environment. Finally, this analysis indicates shear-induced specific turbulent energies 10³ – 10⁴ times higher than the nearest conventional experiments. Because of difficulties in continuously driving systems under these conditions and the harshness of the experimental environment limiting the usable diagnostics, clear evidence of these developing structures has never before been observed in this regime.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1402602

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1295979

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-16-20044; PLEEE8; TRN: US1703240

Journal Information:: Physical Review E, Vol. 94, Issue 2; ISSN 2470-0045

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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