Editorial : Special issue on the 13th international workshop on the physics of compressible turbulent mixing

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Drikakis, Dimitris and Youngs, David L. and Williams, Robin J. R. and Schilling, Oleg and Dalziel, Stuart (2014) Editorial : Special issue on the 13th international workshop on the physics of compressible turbulent mixing. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 136 (9). 090201. (https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4027787)

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Abstract

The study of compressible turbulent mixing associated with Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM), Rayleigh-Taylor (RT), and Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instabilities is motivated by diverse applications in science and engineering, including supersonic combustion, detonation, instability of collapsing gas bubbles, stratified flows in geophysical applications, chemical engineering, inertial confinement fusion (ICF), supernovae, and molecular clouds. Further, the interaction of shock waves with materials is also of interest in biomedical applications, such as fragmentation of cancer cells during shockwave chemotherapy and cavitation damage to human tissues during lithotripsy. In many of these applications, the Reynolds number is very high and the instabilities rapidly lead to turbulent mixing. In the case of ICF, which is regarded as a promising approach to controlled thermonuclear fusion: (1) these instabilities lead to the growth of perturbations on the interfaces within the capsules; (2) perturbations grow into the nonlinear regime by mode coupling and eventually cause mixing of materials; and (3) material mixing inhibits thermonuclear burning of the fuel.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:54596
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    9 July 2014
    Published
    29 May 2014
    Accepted
    Notes:ASME ©
    Subjects:Technology > Chemical engineering
    Department:Faculty of Engineering
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:16 Oct 2015 13:04
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 11:10
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54596
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