High-energy–density systems and astrophysical systems both involve hydrodynamic effects, including sources of pressure, shock waves, rarefactions and plasma flows. In the evolution of such systems, hydrodynamic instabilities naturally evolve. As a result, a fundamental understanding of hydrodynamic instabilities is necessary to understand their behaviour. This paper discusses the validity of a ...

The essence of shear instability is fully revealed both mathematically and physically. A general sufficient and necessary stable criterion is obtained analytically within linear context. It is the analogue of Kelvin-Arnol’d theorem, i.e., the stable flow minimizes the kinetic energy associated with vorticity. Then the mechanism of shear instability is explored by combining the mechanisms of bot...

106 LLE Review, Volume 71 Understanding the growth of perturbations due to hydrodynamic instabilities is important to the design of direct-drive targets for the National Ignition Facility (NIF). Direct-drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF) has the potential to be more efficient than indirect-drive ICF; however, there is the potential for greater growth of hydrodynamic instabilities due to the...

Transport of angular momentum is one of the thrust areas of astrophysical flows. Instabilities and hence the turbulence generated by it has been invoked to understand its role in angular momentum transport in hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic regime. Investigation of an unexplored region described by the parameter space Ω e < 0, Ωe being the epicyclic frequency, resulted in a powerful magnet...

The stability of liquid films on moving fibers is studied with a focus on effects caused by film-solid adhesion interactions and hydrodynamic interactions between the film and the surrounding gas. We show that at high fiber velocities (large Reynolds numbers) the film-gas hydrodynamic interactions induce instability in films, which would, otherwise, be stabilized by the adhesion interactions at...

Abstract The present study shows by a linear hydrodynamic stability analysis that an unstable mixed-layer deep circulation can be generated in the dry convective well-mixed layer entrainment from top. newly identified instability arises under two competing processes induced top entrainment: destabilization generating thermal perturbations and damping mechanical mixing. former latter, respective...

The Plateau-Rayleigh instability of a liquid column underlies a variety of fascinating phenomena that can be observed in everyday life. In contrast to the case of a free liquid cylinder, describing the evolution of a liquid layer on a solid fibre requires consideration of the solid-liquid interface. Here we revisit the Plateau-Rayleigh instability of a liquid coating a fibre by varying the hydr...

Recognizing that previous experimental studies on constant-pressure, outwardly propagating, spherical flames with imaging capability were limited to pressures less than about 5 atm, and that pressures within internal combustion engines are substantially higher, a novel experimental apparatus was designed to extend the environmental pressure to 60 atm. Results substantiate previous observations ...