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The Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability induced by converging shock waves becomes more and more attractive because of its physical applications in shock-wave lithotripsy, inertial confinement fusion, turbulent mixing in scramjet and collapse in supernova.
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Si, T., Zhai, Z., Luo, X., Yang, J. (2015). Experimental Study of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Induced by Cylindrical Converging Shock Waves. In: Bonazza, R., Ranjan, D. (eds) 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 2. ISSW 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16838-8_38
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