Experimental characterization of initial conditions and spatio-temporal evolution of a small-Atwood-number Rayleigh–Taylor mixing layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112006001959zbMath1104.76015OpenAlexW2983391787MaRDI QIDQ3419091

Malcolm J. Andrews, Oleg Schilling, Nicholas J. Mueschke

Publication date: 6 February 2007

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112006001959

zbMATH Keywords

particle-image velocimetryplanar laser-induced fluorescence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17)

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