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We investigate the shock-induced turbulent mixing between a light and heavy gas, where a Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) is initiated by a $\Ma = 1.5$ shock wave. The prescribed initial conditions define a deterministic multimode…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 V. K. Tritschler , B. J. Olson , S. K. Lele , S. Hickel , X. Y. Hu , N. A. Adams

We study the Richtmyer--Meshkov (RM) instability of a relativistic perfect fluid by means of high order numerical simulations with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The numerical scheme adopts a finite volume Weighted Essentially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-04 Olindo Zanotti , Michael Dumbser

The effect of optically thin radiative cooling on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of three dimensional jets is investigated via linear stability theory and nonlinear hydrodynamical simulation. Two different cooling functions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jianjun Xu , Philip Hardee , James Stone

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 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 motion of unstable fluid interface due to Richtmyer - Meshkov (RM) instability incorporating with density variation has been studied in a spherical target using Lagrangian formulation. During the compression in Inertial Confinement…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Labakanta Mandal , Sourav Roy , Rahul Banerjee , Manoranjan Khan , M. R. Gupta

We study the stability of a non-rotating single-component jet using two-dimensional special relativistic hydrodynamic simulations. By assuming translational invariance along the jet axis, we exclude the destabilization effect by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Jin Matsumoto , Youhei Masada

Jets from active galactic nuclei in the centers of galaxy clusters inflate cavities of low density relativistic plasma and drive shock and sound waves into the intracluster medium. When these waves overrun previously inflated cavities, they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel H. Friedman , Sebastian Heinz , Eugene Churazov

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

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

We present the results of simulations of the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability in a cooled, slab symmetric system. The parameters were chosen to approximate the physical conditions typically found in jets from young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Downes , T. P. Ray

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

Molecular Dynamic (MD) approach is applied to study the converging cylindrical shock waves in a dense Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluid. MD method is based on tracking of the atom motions and hence it has an fundamental advantages over hydrodynamic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 V. Zhakhovskii , K. Nishihara , M. Abe

Context. Relativistic jets from Active Galactic Nuclei are observed to be collimated on the parsec scale. When the pressure between the jet and the ambient medium is mismatched, recollimation shocks and rarefaction shocks are formed.…

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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…

We investigate the linear evolution of Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability in the framework of an ideal two-fluid plasma model. The two-fluid plasma equations of motion are separated into a base state and a set of linearized equations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Yuan Li , Abeer Bakhsh , Ravi Samtaney

Both the dynamics and the observational properties of relativistic jets are determined by their interaction with the ambient medium. A crucial role is played by the contact discontinuity at the jet boundary, which in the presence of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Pavel Abolmasov , Omer Bromberg

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous cooling state is carried out to identify the conditions for stability of a granular gas of rough hard spheres. The description is based on the results…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-10 Vicente Garzó , Andrés Santos , Gilberto M. Kremer

The interaction of a Mach 1.45 shock wave with a perturbed planar interface between sulphur hexafluoride and air is studied through high-resolution two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) shock-capturing adaptive mesh refinement…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-13 Man Long Wong , Daniel Livescu , Sanjiva K. Lele

We performed one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with detailed cooling, heating and chemical processes to examine the thermal stability of shocked gas in cold neutral medium (CNM) and molecular clouds. We find that both CNM and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Takuhiro Aota , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Yuri Aikawa