Experiments on the three-dimensional incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
Experiments on the three-dimensional incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
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DOI:
10.1063/1.2214647
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发表时间:
2006-07
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
P. Chapman;J. Jacobs
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作者:
P. Chapman;J. Jacobs
The three-dimensional (3D) Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of incompressible, miscible liquids with a 3D single-mode initial perturbation is investigated. This study uses the apparatus of the earlier experiments of Niederhaus and Jacobs [J. Fluid Mech. 485, 243 (2003)] in which the instability is generated by impulsively accelerating a tank containing the two liquids. However, the present investigation uses a tank with square cross section allowing the generation of a square-mode 3D initial perturbation by lateral oscillation along the tank’s diagonal. Amplitude measurements of the 3D instability are found to be effectively collapsed by the dimensionless scaling used in the two-dimensional (2D) study and to be in good agreement with linear stability theory up until a dimensionless time kν0t≈1, later than is found for the 2D flow. Late-time 3D amplitude measurements show faster growth than 2D as is predicted by popular bubble models. However, late-time growth rate measurements are found to deviate from model...