High-temperature hydrodynamics
We investigate the propagation of shock waves in heterogeneous and/or non-newtonian media, including interfaces separating different materials, and radiation-dominated flows. We also use direct simulations of the mass, momentum, and energy equations, as well as semi-analytical modeling techniques.Target applications include energy sciences (high-energy-density physics, inertial confinement fusion), hypersonics.
Past and current high-temperature hydrodynamics flow projects
- High-energy-density hydrodynamics
- Shock compression
- Hydrodynamic instabilities (Rayleigh-Taylor, Kelvin-Helmholtz, Richtmyer-Meshkov, Crow)
- Vorticity and vortex ring dynamics
- Turbulence
- Transport and constitutive properties of materials under extreme conditions
- Radiation-hydrodynamics
- X-ray-generated impulse
- Radiation diffusion waves (Marshak)
- Thermal transport in laser-matter interaction