Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

The Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) occurs when two fluids of different density are impulsively accelerated. Normally this is by the passage of a shock wave. The development of the instability begins with small amplitude perturbations which initially grow linearly with time. This is followed by a nonlinear regime with bubbles appearing in the case of a light fluid penetrating a heavy fluid, and with spikes appearing in the case of a heavy fluid penetrating a light fluid. A chaotic regime eventually is reached and the two fluids mix. This instability can be considered the impulsive-acceleration limit of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability.{{cite journal |last1=Zhou |first1=Ye |title=Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities: A journey through scales |journal=Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena |date=September 2021 |volume=423 |page=132838 |doi=10.1016/j.physd.2020.132838 |bibcode=2021PhyD..42332838Z |hdl=10871/124449 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167278920308393#! |access-date=15 July 2022|hdl-access=free }}

Dispersion Relation

For ideal MHD

$(\omega^2 - 2k_\parallel ^2 / \beta )(\omega ^4 - (2/ \beta + 1)k^2 \omega^2 +2k_\parallel^2k^2 / \beta )=0$

For Hall MHD

${\displaystyle (\omega ^{2}-2k_{\parallel }^{2}/\beta )(\omega ^{4}-(2/\beta +1)k^{2}\omega ^{2}+2k_{\parallel }^{2}k^{2}/\beta )-2d_s^2 k_\parallel^2 k^2 \omega^2(\omega^2 - k^2)/ \beta =0}$

For QMHD

${\displaystyle {\displaystyle ((1+2/ \beta c^2)\omega ^{2}-2k_{\parallel }^{2}/\beta )((1+2/ \beta c^2)\omega ^{4}-(2/\beta +1)k^{2}\omega ^{2}+2k_{\parallel }^{2}k^{2}/\beta )-2d_{s}^{2}k_{\parallel }^{2}k^{2}\omega ^{2}(\omega ^{2}-k^{2})/\beta =0}}$

History

R. D. Richtmyer provided a theoretical prediction,{{cite journal |first=Robert D. |last=Richtmyer |title=Taylor Instability in a Shock Acceleration of Compressible Fluids |journal=Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics |volume=13 |issue= 2|pages=297–319 |year=1960 |doi=10.1002/cpa.3160130207 |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1257762/ }} and E. E. Meshkov (Евгений Евграфович Мешков)^(ru) provided experimental verification.{{Cite journal |title=Instability of the Interface of Two Gases Accelerated by a Shock Wave |journal=Soviet Fluid Dynamics |volume=4 |issue=5 |pages=101–104 |year=1969 |doi=10.1007/BF01015969 |bibcode=1972FlDy....4..101M |last1=Meshkov |first1=E. E |s2cid=123494913 }} Materials in the cores of stars, like Cobalt-56 from Supernova 1987A were observed earlier than expected. This was evidence of mixing due to Richtmyer–Meshkov and Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities. {{Cite web |title=Richtmyer meshkov instability |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/unsupported_browser}}

Examples

During the implosion of an inertial confinement fusion target, the hot shell material surrounding the cold D–T fuel layer is shock-accelerated. This instability is also seen in magnetized target fusion (MTF)."On the collapse of a Gas Cavity by an Imploding Molten Lead Shell and Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability" Victoria Suponitsky, et al. General Fusion Inc, 2013 Mixing of the shell material and fuel is not desired and efforts are made to minimize any tiny imperfections or irregularities which will be magnified by RMI.

Supersonic combustion in a scramjet may benefit from RMI as the fuel-oxidants interface is enhanced by the breakup of the fuel into finer droplets. Also in studies of deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) processes show that RMI-induced flame acceleration can result in detonation.

References

{{cite journal | last=Mikaelian | first=Karnig O. | title=Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities in stratified fluids | journal=Physical Review A | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=31 | issue=1 | date=1985-01-01 | issn=0556-2791 | doi=10.1103/physreva.31.410 | pages=410–419| pmid=9895490 | bibcode=1985PhRvA..31..410M | s2cid=21139629 | url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1068669/ }}

External links

[http://silver.neep.wisc.edu/~shock/rmintro.html Wisconsin Shock Tube Laboratory]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070625232823/http://ctr.stanford.edu/ResBriefs03/abarzhi1.pdf New type of interface evolution in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability]
[https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/csp_001c/pdf/ov3_1.pdf Recent Advances in Indirect Drive ICF Target Physics at LLNL]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20041023055149/http://www.llnl.gov/casc/calendar/nikiforakis.072904.html Emergence of Detonation in the Flowfield Induced by Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050125073538/http://www.td.mw.tum.de/tum-td/de/forschung/pub/CD_Mayinger/339.pdf Propagation of Fast Deflagrations and Marginal Detonations in Hydrogen-Air Mixtures]
[http://www.me.unm.edu/~kalmoth/fluids/dx3/dx3.html Mushrooms+Snakes: a visualization of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability]
[https://www.mth.msu.edu/~wei/RMI.html Conjugate Filter OscillationReduction (CFOR) scheme for the 2D Richtmyer–Meshkov instability]
[https://web.arizona.edu/~fluidlab/ Experiments on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability at the University of Arizona] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230142723/http://web.arizona.edu/~fluidlab/ |date=2006-12-30 }}

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