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Instability at imploding gas layer impacted by convergent shock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2025

Juchun Ding Open the ORCID record for Juchun Ding [Opens in a new window] ,
Chengshuo Fan ,
Zhangbo Zhou Open the ORCID record for Zhangbo Zhou [Opens in a new window]  and
Xisheng Luo Open the ORCID record for Xisheng Luo [Opens in a new window]
Juchun Ding
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao 266237, PR China
Chengshuo Fan
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China
Zhangbo Zhou*
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China
Xisheng Luo
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, PR China
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Corresponding author: Zhangbo Zhou, zbzhou@ustc.edu.cn
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Abstract

This work reports high-fidelity shock-tube experiments on the convergent Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instability at a heavy gas layer. The convergent shock tube is designed based on shock dynamics theory, significantly mitigating interface deceleration and reflected shock. As a result, long-term observation of instability growth up to nonlinear stage, free of interface deceleration and reshock, is achieved. Various types of SF$_6$ layers surrounded by air with controllable thicknesses and shapes, created using a soap film technique, are examined. For thick layers, the evolutions of the outer and inner interfaces are nearly decoupled regardless of the layer shape. The weakly nonlinear model of Wang (Phys. Plasmas,vol. 22, 2015, p. 082702), designed for cylindrical RM instability at a single interface, provides a reasonable prediction of perturbation growth at the inner interface, while slightly underestimating instability growth at the outer interface, as it neglects the effects of rarefaction wave. For thin layers, perturbation growth is fastest at either interface when both interfaces initially possess in-phase perturbations, moderate when only one interface is initially perturbed and slowest when the two interfaces have anti-phase perturbations. This variation in growth rates is due to the fact that the evolution of a thin layer is influenced by both reverberating waves and interface coupling, with each factor being highly sensitive to the layer shape. The original vortex method is extended to address the convergent RM instability by incorporating the influences of unsteady background flow, interface coupling and reverberating waves into the transport of a vortex sheet. This extended vortex method enables accurate prediction of convergent RM instability at a gas layer, covering the full range from early linear to late nonlinear stages.

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Compressible Flows: Shock waves Instability: Shear-flow instability
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 1008 , 10 April 2025 , A9
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