Effects of Initial Conditions on Compressible Mixing in Supernova-Relevant Laboratory Experiments |
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Authors: | A R Miles M J Edwards J A Greenough |
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Institution: | (1) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA;(2) University of Maryland, MD, USA |
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Abstract: | In core-collapse supernovae, strong blast waves drive interfaces susceptible to Rayleigh–Taylor (RT), Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM),
and Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instabilities. In addition, perturbation growth can result from material expansion in large-scale
velocity gradients behind the shock front. Laser-driven experiments are designed to produce a strongly shocked interface whose
evolution is a scaled version of the unstable hydrogen–helium interface in core-collapse supernovae such as SN 1987A. The
ultimate goal of this research is to develop an understanding of the effect of hydrodynamic instabilities and the resulting
transition to turbulence on supernovae observables that remain as yet unexplained.
This paper represents a summary of recent results from a computational study of unstable systems driven by high Mach number
shock and blast waves. For planar multimode systems, compressibility effects preclude the emergence of a regime of self-similar
instability growth independent of the initial conditions (ICs) by allowing for memory of the initial conditions to be retained
in the mix-width at all times. With higher-dimensional blast waves, divergence restores the properties necessary for establishment
of the self-similar state, but achieving it requires very high initial characteristic mode number and high Mach number for
the incident blast wave. Initial conditions predicted by some recent stellar calculations are incompatible with self-similarity. |
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