Principal Investigator - Riccardo Bonazza

Research Areas

• The Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities

  
  
  • A brief introduction to the instabilities and motivation for the research
  • Pressure and imaging diagnostics
  • Studies with membranes used to create the interface
  • Membraneless interfaces using a retractable sinusoidal plate
  • Three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor studies
  • Shocked bubble experiments and computations
  • Magnetorheological Rayleigh-Taylor experiments
  • Participation in HEDSA

• Shock Cylinder Interactions

• Shocked Water Layer Experiments

WiSTL Facility 

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WiSTL Personnel

Shock Tube Tools

• Gas Dynamics Calculator
• Laser Sheet Optics Setup
• Physical Properties and Dimensionless Numbers/Constants
• Gas Dynamics x-t Diagram
• Linear Rayleigh-Taylor Theory Notes

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