Investigation of Rayleigh–Taylor turbulence and mixing using direct numerical simulation with experimentally measured initial conditions. I. Comparison to experimental data

DOI10.1063/1.3064120zbMath1183.76366OpenAlexW2055732636MaRDI QIDQ5304369

Nicholas J. Mueschke, Oleg Schilling

Publication date: 18 March 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3064120

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsmixingRayleigh-Taylor instabilityturbulent diffusionflow simulationnumerical analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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