Principal Investigator - Riccardo Bonazza

The Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities

• Current Projects

  
  
  • Membraneless interface using oscillating pistons
  • Shocked bubble experiments and computations
  • Magnetorheological Rayleigh-Taylor experiments

• Motivation and Facility

  
  
  • A brief introduction to the instabilities and motivation for the research
  • Pressure and imaging diagnostics
  • Facility description
  • Facility Images
  • Participation in HEDSA

Inactive Projects

• Membraneless interface using a retractable sinusoidal plate
• Shocked water layer experiments
• Shock cylinder interactions

WiSTL Personnel

List of Publications

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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