Effect of compressibility on strong shock and turbulence interactions

Abstract

The interactions between turbulent flows and shock waves are important in many natural processes as well as scientific and engineering applications, such as volcanic eruption, supernova explosion, detonation, medical application of shock wave lithotripsy to break up kidney stones, and energy application of the implosion of a cryogenic fuel capsule for inertial confinement fusion where very high rates of compression and expansion waves are generally observed. These phenomena are strongly nonlinear and proven to be very complex to understand with existing tools. One of the fundamental building blocks in these complex processes and applications is the canonical problem of the interaction of isotropic turbulence and a normal shock. The underlying physics in