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The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) refers to the baroclinic generation of vorticity at a perturbed density interface when impacted by a shock wave. It is often thought of as the impulsive limit of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Manuel Lombardini , Ralf Deiterding

Turbulent mixing due to hydrodynamic instabilities occurs in a wide range of science and engineering applications such as supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion. The experimental, theoretical and numerical studies help us to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Tulin Kaman , Ryan Holley

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) occurs when a shock wave passes through an interface between fluids of different densities, a phenomenon prevalent in a variety of scenarios including supersonic combustion, supernovae, and inertial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-15 Usman Rana , Thomas Abadie , David Chapman , Nathan Joiner , Omar Matar

The effects of initial conditions on the evolution of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) at early to intermediate times are analysed, using numerical simulations of an idealised version of recent shock tube experiments performed at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Michael Groom , Ben Thornber

The mixing of materials due to the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and the ensuing turbulent behavior is of intense interest in a variety of physical systems including inertial confinement fusion, combustion, and the final stages of stellar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-29 Nicholas J. Nelson , Fernando F. Grinstein

Early to intermediate time behaviour of the planar Richtmyer--Meshkov instability (RMI) is investigated through direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the evolution of a deterministic interfacial perturbation initiated by a $\textrm{Ma}=1.84$…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Michael Groom , Ben Thornber

Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) plays an important role in many areas of science and engineering, from supernovae and fusion to scramjets and nano-fabrication. Classical Richtmyer-Meshkov instability is induced by a steady shock and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Desmond Hill , Snezhana Abarzhi

Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) plays important role in nature and technology, from supernovae and fusion to scramjets and nano-fabrication. Canonical Richtmyer-Meshkov instability is induced by a steady shock and impulsive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-22 Aklant K. Bhowmick , Desmond L. Hill , Miccal Matthews , Snezhana I. Abarzhi

The compression of a cylindrical gas bubble by an imploding molten lead (Pb) shell may be accompanied by the development of the Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability at the liquid-gas interface due to the initial imperfection of the interface.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-13 Victoria Suponitsky , Sandra Barsky , Aaron Froese

This paper investigates the influence of different broadband perturbations on the evolution of a Richtmyer--Meshkov turbulent mixing layer initiated by a Mach 1.84 shock traversing a perturbed interface separating gases with a density ratio…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-25 Michael Groom , Ben Thornber

The mean momentum and heavy mass fraction, turbulent kinetic energy, and heavy mass fraction variance fields, as well as the budgets of their transport equations, are examined at several times during the evolution of a narrowband…

In the present paper, an efficient method to generate "pure" cylindrically converging shock wave without a following contact surface is proposed firstly. Then, the Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities of two interfaces driven by the generated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-09 Wei-Gang Zeng , Yu-Xin Ren , Jianhua Pan

Turbulent Richtmyer--Meshkov instability (RMI) is investigated through a series of high resolution three dimensional smulations of two initial conditions with eight independent codes. The simulations are initialised with a narrowband…

The classical Richtmyer-Meshkov instability is a hydrodynamic instability characterizing the evolution of an interface following shock loading. In contrast to other hydrodynamic instabilities such as Rayleigh-Taylor, it is known for being…

Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability (RMI) is a complicated phenomenon that occurs when a shockwave passes through a perturbed interface. Over a thousand hydrodynamic simulations were performed to study the formation of RMI for a parameterized…

The Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability occurs when a perturbed interface between two fluids undergoes impulsive acceleration due to a shock wave. In this paper, a numerical investigation of the RM instability during the reshock process is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Demei Li , Tao Yang , Yanbiao Gan , Lingyan Lian , Aiguo Xu

We have investigated the effects of a smooth transition layer at the contact discontinuity on the growth of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) by hydrodynamic numerical simulations and derived an empirical condition for the suppression…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Takayoshi Sano , Kazuki Ishigure , Fransisco Cobos-Campos

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) poses a major challenge in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) due to its role in mixing and performance degradation. We report the first experimental observation of passive freeze-out of RMI in a…

Shock-driven multiphase mixing occurs in many physical systems such as explosive dispersal of chemical or biological agents, in the evolution of supernova remnants, and in supersonic and detonative combustion engines. This mixing process is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-02 Vasco O. Duke-Walker , Jacob A. McFarland

We develop a gradient based optimization approach for the equations of compressible, Lagrangian hydrodynamics and demonstrate how it can be employed to automatically uncover strategies to control hydrodynamic instabilities arising from…

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