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Turbulence has a profound impact on the evolution of gas and dust in protoplanetary disks (PPDs), from driving the collisions and the diffusion of dust grains, to the concentration of pebbles in giant vortices, thus, facilitating…

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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

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…

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…

The amplification of a magnetic field due to the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) is investigated by two-dimensional MHD simulations. Single-mode analysis is adopted to reveal definite relation between the nonlinear evolution of RMI and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Takayoshi Sano , Katsunobu Nishihara , Chihiro Matsuoka , Tsuyoshi Inoue

The interaction between gas and dust in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) plays a crucial role in setting the stage of planet formation. In particular, the streaming instability (SI) is well recognized as the mechanism for planetesimal formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai

We study the formation and dynamics of shock waves initiated by a repulsive potential in a superfluid unitary Fermi gas by using the order-parameter equation. In the theoretical framework, the regularization process of shock waves mediated…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-03 Wen Wen , Tiankun Shui , Yafei Shan , Changping Zhu

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

Droplet-based interphase synthesis provides means to produce nanoparticles with low polydispersity by controlling mass transport through droplet dynamics. An experimentally validated model, based on coupled computational fluid dynamics with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-17 Vivekananda Bal , Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya

The Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability has long been an interesting subject due to its fundamental significance in scientific research, as well as its crucial role in engineering applications. In this study, the contribution of shock Mach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-13 Satyvir Singh

Particles suspended in a fluid exert feedback forces that can significantly impact the flow, altering the turbulent drag and velocity fluctuations. We study flow modulation induced by particles heavier than the carrier fluid in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-13 A. Sozza , M. Cencini , S. Musacchio , G. Boffetta

Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 Chih-Yueh Wang , Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko

A collisionless shock wave is treated as a streaming plasma instability in the interstellar medium (ISM). We assume that in a steady state, this instability propagates through the ISM as a self-driven plasma instability, whereby the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-30 Vladimir Zekovic , Bojan Arbutina

The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) under multi-mode perturbation in compressible flow is probed via the Discrete Boltzmann Modeling (DBM) with tracers. The distribution of tracers provides clear boundaries between light and heavy fluids…

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We investigate the effect of inertial particles dispersed in a circular patch of finite radius on the stability of a two-dimensional Rankine vortex in semi-dilute dusty flows. Unlike the particle-free case where no unstable modes exist, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-05 Shuai Shuai , Darish Jeswin Dhas , Anubhab Roy , M. Houssem Kasbaoui

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

Efficient mixing in high-speed compressible flows, crucial for scramjet operation, can be significantly enhanced by shock wave interactions. This study employs Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) to comprehensively examine the interaction…

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Simulations and observations of the low-latitude magnetosphere-magnetosheath boundary layer indicate that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) drives vortex structures that enhance plasma mixing and magnetic reconnection, influencing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Silvia Ferro , Fabio Bacchini , Giuseppe Arrò , Francesco Pucci , Pierre Henri

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

Previous experiments have revealed that shock waves in thermally relaxing gases, such as ionizing, dissociating and vibrationally excited gases, can become unstable. To date, the mechanism controlling this instability has not been resolved.…

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