We suggest an easily obtained laboratory configuration to observe jet
and vortex flows for the Richtmyer–Meshkov (accelerated
inhomogeneous flow) environment. A hemispherical bubble in air
with density ratio of 5 is placed against an ideally reflecting wall
and struck by a planar shock. This also models a spherical bubble
struck symmetrically by two identical approaching shocks, that is, a
“reshock” configuration. For all Mach numbers
(M = 1.2, 1.5, and 2.0), our axisymmetric simulations show
that the heavy hemispherical bubble expands axially away from the wall
as a jet, and a weaker vortex ring moves radially along the wall. In
addition, when M = 1.5, a ringlike vortex projectile (VP) of
small diameter follows closely behind the reflected shock and is
associated with its moving triple point. This VP contains an entrained
shocklet and quadrupole structure of dilatation. Various methods are
applied to quantify the emerging coherent structures.