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Modeling turbulent mixing

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Abstract

Fluid mixing is an important phenomenon in many physical applications from supernova explosions to genetic structure formations. Moving interfaces between distinct fluids in a multi-fluid system are often unstable. Small perturbations at such interfaces grow as a result of nonlinear hydrodynamic processes, and evolve into turbulent mixing regions. In this work, we present theoretical models to predict the mixing growth rates and numerical simulations for the chaotic mixing fluids. Our results are in good agreement with experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationShock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2011 - Proceedings of the Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter
Pages1611-1614
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event17th Biennial Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 2011 APS SCCM - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Jun 26 2011Jul 1 2011

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1426
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference17th Biennial Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 2011 APS SCCM
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period06/26/1107/1/11

Keywords

  • Hydrodynamic instabilities
  • turbulent mix

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