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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

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…

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 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

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

Efficient modeling of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) is essential to many engineering tasks, including high-speed combustion and drive and capsule geometry optimization in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). In the latter, RMI…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-21 Daniel Messenger , Daniel Serino , Balu Nadiga , Marc Klasky

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

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 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…

Robust, broadly applicable fluid-structure interaction (FSI) algorithms remain a challenge for computational mechanics. In previous work, we introduced an immersed interface method (IIM) for discrete surfaces and an extension based on an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Qi Sun , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , Boyce E. Griffith

We present two new Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics, in a systematic comparison with moving-mesh, SPH, and stationary (non-moving) grid methods. The new methods are designed to simultaneously capture advantages of both smoothed-particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins

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

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

We develop a stochastic model for the velocity gradients dynamics along a Lagrangian trajectory. Comparing with different attempts proposed in the literature, the present model, at the cost of introducing a free parameter known in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-23 Rodrigo M. Pereira , Luca Moriconi , Laurent Chevillard

We develop a novel multiscale model of interface motion for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) for two-dimensional, inviscid, compressible flows with vorticity, which yields a fast-running…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Raag Ramani , Steve Shkoller

The correct evaluation of gradients is at the cornerstone of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. Using an integral approach to estimate gradients has proven to enhance accuracy substantially. Such approach retains the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Domingo García-Senz , Rubén M. Cabezón , José A. Escartín

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

At the heart of any method for computational fluid dynamics lies the question of how the simulated fluid should be discretized. Traditionally, a fixed Eulerian mesh is often employed for this purpose, which in modern schemes may also be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-13 Volker Springel

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

This work primarily focuses on the study of three gradient reconstruction techniques applied to the calculation of viscous terms in a cell-centered, finite volume formulation for general unstructured grids. The work also addresses different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-13 Frederico Bolsoni Oliveira , João Luiz F. Azevedo
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