Mixing Fluids

Using everyday items and liquids that can be found at the local grocery store we can investigate complex fluid flows and fluid mixing that is important to many areas of science. With hands-on experimentation we observe the interaction of mixing fluids of varying density.

Videos:

• Floating and Falling Flows:
  • https://youtu.be/9IFwZu6xQrM?si=hZKM1-B2bX47FDf-
• Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability:
  • https://youtu.be/qgamfo86FQo?si=JnB3s4LKlXQNTafi
• What is Turbulence? Turbulent Fluid Dynamics are Everywhere:
  • https://youtu.be/v5IoP9Pc-Y0?si=Ai0TJrEGfAqKwJY7

Popular works:

• An overview of multiple hydrodynamic instabilities and their applications by Ye Zhou:
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167278920308393
• A short but detailed write up of the underlying mathematics of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability:
  • http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Richtmyer-Meshkov_instability_and_re-accelerated_inhomogeneous_flows

Technical Works:

• A further in depth paper on Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability and Rayleigh Taylor turbulent mixing by Zhou:
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157317302958