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Experimental study of the influence of the stabilizing properties of transitional layers on the turbulent mixing evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2004

Yu.A. KUCHERENKO ,
S.I. BALABIN ,
R.I. ARDASHOVA ,
O.E. KOZELKOV ,
A.V. DULOV  and
I.A. ROMANOV
Yu.A. KUCHERENKO
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Academician E.I. Zababakhin, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Chelyabinsk, Russia
S.I. BALABIN
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Academician E.I. Zababakhin, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Chelyabinsk, Russia
R.I. ARDASHOVA
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Academician E.I. Zababakhin, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Chelyabinsk, Russia
O.E. KOZELKOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Academician E.I. Zababakhin, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Chelyabinsk, Russia
A.V. DULOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Academician E.I. Zababakhin, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Chelyabinsk, Russia
I.A. ROMANOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Academician E.I. Zababakhin, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Chelyabinsk, Russia
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Abstract

Experiments conducted on the EKAP facility at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center–VNIITF concerning the stabilization of Rayleigh–Taylor instability-induced mixing in miscible liquids by the formation of a molecular diffusion (or transitional) layer between the liquids initially were described. The experiments had an Atwood number of 1/3. The acceleration was 3500 times that of Earth's gravity, and several values of diffusion layer thickness were considered. The experiments showed that the growth of the turbulent mixing zone could be delayed by adjusting the amplitude of the initial perturbations and the characteristic thickness of the diffusion layer. This has been observed in experiments conducted with water and mercury. The mixing layer evolution was imaged using X-ray radiography.

Keywords

Mixing delayMixing stabilizationTransitional layerTurbulent mixing
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 369 - 373
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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