Browsing Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy by Author "Dalziel, Stuart"

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  • Rayleigh-Taylor mixing: confinement by stratification and geometry 

    Lawrie, Andrew (University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsSelwyn College, 2010-03-16)
    Rayleigh-Taylor instability has been an area of active research in fluid dynamics for the last twenty years, but relatively little attention has been paid to the dynamics of problems where Rayleigh-Taylor instability ...

  • The impact and rupture of a water-filled balloon on a rigid surface 

    Lund, Hugh Michael (University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2014-06-10)
    The dropping of a water-filled latex balloon onto a flat, rigid surface is an experiment that is known and has been performed by many, but on which there is no existing published work. High-speed images taken of the process ...