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Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jun 27;100(25):254503. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.254503. Epub 2008 Jun 27.

Investigation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with stereolithographed interfaces.

Physical review letters

Christian Mariani, Marc Vandenboomgaerde, Georges Jourdan, Denis Souffland, Lazhar Houas

Affiliations

  1. Polytech'Marseille - Dpt Mécanique Energétique - IUSTI/UMR CNRS 6595 Technopôle de Château Gombert, 5 rue Enrico Fermi, 13013 Marseille, France.

PMID: 18643665 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.254503

Abstract

A novel method to set highly accurate initial conditions has been designed in the context of shock tube experiments for the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability study. Stereolithography has been used to design the membrane supports which initially materialize the gaseous interface. The visualizations of both heavy-light and light-heavy sinusoidal interfaces were carried out with laser sheet diagnostics. Experiments are in very good agreement with theory and simulations for the heavy-light case, but probably due to the membrane effects, quickly deviate from them in the light-heavy configuration.

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