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1 - A first glimpse of Rayleigh–Taylor, Richtmyer–Meshkov, and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities

from Part 1 - Fundamentals

Ye Zhou
Ye Zhou
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California
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Summary

I will describe the earlier efforts in both hydrodynamic instability and turbulence mixing research and provide a broad non-mathematical overview of the significance of turbulence mixing on scientific and engineering applications. I will briefly explain several varied applications in which hydrodynamic instability plays a critical role, namely, inertial confinement fusion (ICF), supernova explosions, solar prominences, paintings, and combustions and detonations, among others, to provide the reader with an idea of what will be discussed later in the book.

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Rayleigh–Taylor instabilityRichtmyer–Meshkov instabilityKelvin–Helmholtz instabilityspikebubble
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Hydrodynamic Instabilities and Turbulence
Rayleigh–Taylor, Richtmyer–Meshkov, and Kelvin–Helmholtz Mixing
 , pp. 3 - 15
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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