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Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, is operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36. By acceptance of this article, the publisher recognizes that the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty- free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or to allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. Los Alamos National Laboratory requests that the publisher identify this article as work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy. Los Alamos National Laboratory strongly supports academic freedom and a researcher's right to publish; as an institution, however, the Laboratory does not endorse the viewpoint of a publication or guarantee its technical correctness.

FORM 836 (10/96)

LA-UR-02-2212 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

Title: Statistical Comparison between Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Shock-Accelerated Gas Cylinders

Author(s): William J. Rider, James R. Kamm, Cindy A. Zoldi, and Christopher D. Tomkins

Submitted to: WCCM V Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 7–12, 2002, Vienna, Austria http://lib-www.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00818827.pdf

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WCCM VFifth World Congresson

ComputationalMechanicsJuly 7–12, 2002, Vienna,Austria

Eds.:H.A. Mang, F.G.Rammerstorfer,J.Eberhardsteiner

Statistical Comparison between Experiments and NumericalSimulations of Shock-Accelerated Gas Cylinders

William J. Rider, James R. Kamm�, Cindy A. Zoldi, and Christopher D. Tomkins

LosAlamosNationalLaboratoryMS D413, LosAlamos,NM 87545, USA

e-mail:[email protected]

Key words: Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, high resolution numerical methods, validation, fractalspectrum,waveletanalysis

AbstractWe present detailed spatial analysis comparing experimental dataandnumerical simulation results forRichtmyer-Meshkov instability experimentsof Prestridgeetal. [11] andTomkinsetal. [19]. Theseexper-imentsconsist,respectively, of oneandtwo diffusecylinders of sulphur hexaflouride(SF� ) impulsivelyacceleratedby a Mach 1.2 shockwave in air. The subsequent fluid evolution andmixing is driven bythe deposition of baroclinic vorticity at the interfacebetween the two fluids. Numerical simulations oftheseexperiments areperformedwith threedifferentversions of high resolution finite volumeGodunovmethods,including anew weightedadaptiveRunge-Kutta(WARK) scheme[15]. Wequantify thenatureof the mixing using using integral measures aswell as fractal analysis andcontinuous wavelet trans-forms.Our investigation of thegascylinderconfigurations follows thepath of our earlier studiesof thegeometrically anddynamically morecomplex gas“curtain” experiment [13, 14]. In thosestudies, wefound significant discrepanciesin the details of the experimentally measured mixing andthe details ofthenumericalsimulations. Hereweevaluate theeffectsof thesehydrodynamicintegration techniquesonthediffuse gascylindersimulations, which we quantitatively compare with experimentaldata.

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1 Introduction

We examinethedetailed structure of experimentsandsimulations involving shock-driven mixing initi-atedby theRichtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability [3]. Theexperimentsconsist of a heavy gas(SF� ) thatis introducedinto a light gas(air) by a configurablenozzle and is impulsively acceleratedby a planarMach1.2shock wave; see[16, 17] for details. In previouswork [13, 14], we examined theshock-drivenevolution of a varicose-profile, thin gaslayer (a gas“curtain”); the presentwork examines shockinter-actions with oneor two diffuse gascylinders.The fluid mixing in these experimentsis driven by thedeposition of baroclinic vorticity at the interfacebetweenthe two fluids, producing the RM instability.Multi-exposure flow visualization is obtainedwith laser-sheet illumination, providing several snapshotsof theSF� volumefraction.

Our computational simulationswereperformedwith different codes andalgorithms,to examinetheef-fectsof the numerics on the characteristicsof the computed mixing flow. Theseresults do not includeexplicitly modeled viscousterms;a morelimited setof complementarysimulationsof this configurationwith equationsthatdo contain viscoustermsindicatesno substantial differencein thecomputedresults.TheRAGE code[1] employs a high resolution Godunov methodthat is implemented in a dimensionallysplit Lagrange-remap(SLR) fashion with a linearizedtwo-shock Riemannsolver. This codehasgen-uine multimaterial capability , with local thermal, pressure,andmomentum equilibri um enforced.Thiscodealsohasanadaptive meshrefinement (AMR) feature,which wasactivated in thecalculations.TheCUERVO codeis principally usedto investigateadvancednumerical integration techniquesandusesaGodunov methodwith a simple multimaterial treatment introduced by Bell et al. [2]. This codeusesunsplit differencing (bothspatial andtemporal) togetherwith anadaptive quadratic two-shock Riemannsolver [12] in either a standard high resolution unsplit direct Eulerian (UDE) method or with a newweighted adaptive Runge-Kutta(WARK) scheme[15].

We comparethe experimental imageswith the computed results both qualitatively andquantitatively.Given the sensitive dependence on the initial conditions for theseflows, onecannot perform pointwisecomparisonof theflowfields.Therefore,weexaminethedataandresultswith moregeneral methods.Thequantitativeanalysistechniquesweconsiderincludefractal analysisandcontinuouswavelettransforms.With thesemethodswe seekto quantify flow structuresover a rangeof length scales.We find thatsomesimulation results correspondquantitatively to experimentsat certain length scales,while others deviatesignificantly. Thedetails of thenumerical integrationappear to play a significantrole in this variation.

Thispaper is structuredasfollows.Theexperimentalconfigurationis discussedin furtherdetail in�2. A

brief description of thesimulation codes is providedin�3. Theanalysistechniques arebriefly described

in�4. Resultsareprovidedin

�5, foll owedby a summaryin

�6.

2 The Shock Tube Richtmyer-Meshkov Experiment

Richtmyer-Meshkov experimentswereconductedat the Los Alamos facility (Fig. 1) by Prestridge etal. [11] andTomkinset al. [19]. We describe thembriefly andfocus on aspects that arerelevant to ourcurrent discussion.Theexperimental apparatusis a ����� m shock tubewith a ����� cm ����� cmsquare testsection.Thedriversection is pressurized beforetheshot, andtherupturing of apolypropylenediaphragmproducesa Mach ���� planar shock. In the test section, heavy SF� gasis injected vertically through anozzle in the top, andremoved by suction through an exhaust plenum at the bottom. Thenozzle shapeimposes a specified shapeon thecrosssection of theSF� , which hasa downwardvelocity of ����� cm/s.

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Figure1: Photographof theshocktubeexperimentalfacility.

Theexperimentsof interestused single or doublecolumn(s)of SF� . In thelatter case, Tomkinsetal. [19]consider several valuesof the inter-cylinder spacing � for fixed cylinder diameter� ; we examine thethreecases ������������ , ����� , and ���� . The evolution of the subsequent flow, which is illuminatedbya horizontal laserlight sheet, remainsapproximately two-dimensional for the spanof the experiment(althoughit eventually transitions to a full y three-dimensional flow) andexhibits substantial shot-to-shotrepeatability. A tracermaterialconsistingof glycol fog (with characteristicdroplet dimension of ������� m)is addedto the SF� to greatly enhance the dynamic range of the images,which arecaptured by CCDcamera.A detailed discussionof theexperimentalapparatus,including a discussionof theflow trackingcharacteristics of theglycol fog andexperimentalerroranalysis,is givenby Rightley et al. [17] Images,which areobtainedat ��� , ����� , ! �� , "���� , #���� , and �����$� s aftershock impact with thecylinder(s),have apixel resolution of �%�����&� cm '�����&� cm.Theimageintensity corresponds to thevolumefraction of SF� ,sincethesignal registeredat theCCDis proportional to thenumberof scatterersin eachpixel volume.

The imagedflows aretransitional (i.e., not fully turbulent) in nature, with an integral scalecirculation-based Reynoldsnumberof �$���)( – ���!* , ameasuredTaylor microscaleReynoldsnumberof �+�����!� , andaTaylor microscalelength of �,����� mm.Table1 providestheinitial gaspropertiesusedin thesimulations.

Table1: Physical propertiesof thegasesused in thesimulations.

- . / 021 3Material (g cm465 ) (dyncm467 ) (erg 8 K g 4:9 ) (dyn scm467 )

Pre-Shock Air �����!�';��� 465 ����<��=>��� � ���?"@� #���<!�'>��� � ����<A>��� 4 (Post-Shock Air ���� �"B>���@465 ���� ��C>��� � ���?"@� #���<!�'>��� � ����<A>����4 (Pre-Shock SF� �����!�'>����465 ����<��=>��� � �����@� �����! '>��� � �����A>����4 (

3 Numerical Simulations

Several aspects of the numerical simulationsgreatly influence the computed results. All computationswererun in a frameof referencein which thepost-shock SF� structure is approximatelystationary; theimposed translational velocity counteractsthe shock- andvorticity-inducedvelocity of the cylinder(s),thereby decreasing thehorizontal motionof theSF� structurethrough thecomputational mesh.

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Figure 2: Initial volume fractions for the simulations: from left to right, the single cylinder and the�����D�E���� , ����� , and ���� double cylinders.

3.1 Initial Conditions

The initial conditions for the SF� areextremely important becausethe first shock-cylinder interactiondeterminesmuchof baroclinic vorticity deposition, which greatly influencesthe subsequent evolution.Our previousgascurtain study [13, 14] used experimentaldatato initialize the simulations; however,in this work we useidealized initial data.Efforts arepresently underway to obtainhigh resolution ini-tial condition images to be usedin computational initialization. For this study, we operateon initiallyGaussian regions of SF� (full-width at half-maximumdiameter � of ����� cm and ���� cm for the singleanddouble cylinders,respectively) with a numerical isotropic diffusion operator, using an empiricallychosennumber of diffusion iterationssothat resulting volumefraction profiles correspondto initial ex-perimental measurements. Figure2 contains plots of the SF� centerline volume fractions usedas theiniti al conditions for eachsimulation.

3.2 Simulation Codes

Computations were done with two hydrocodes: RAGE, an adaptive grid Godunov method[1], andCUERVO, a Godunov codefor investigating advancedhydrodynamicsalgorithms[12]. Both codesnom-inally solve themultimaterial Eulerequationsof compressibleflow. We performedsimulationswith twodifferentcodesto quantify theeffect of thedifferentsolution algorithmsin thesecodesonthelarge-scale(integral)andsmall-scale(statistical) characteristicsof thesimulatedshock-inducedmixing flow. Neitherof thesecodes includesexplicitly modeledviscousterms;however, a limited number of complementarysimulationswith equationscontaining viscoustermsindicatesno substantial differencein thecomputedresults.

RAGE is ahigh resolutionGodunov codein which thehydroalgorithmis operatorsplit andimplementedin a Lagrange-remapfashion with a linearizedtwo-shock Riemannsolver. Thecode hasgenuinemulti-material capability with the fluids forced to be in local thermal,pressure,andmomentum equilibrium.RAGE contains adaptive meshrefinement (AMR) technology, which we employed to meshthe entireshock tube, with reflective boundariesat edges of the computational domain.Additionally, RAGE iscapable of effectively util izing themostmoderncomputing resourcesavailable.

CUERVO is principally usedto investigate advanced numerical integration techniques. CUERVO hasunsplit differencing (both spatial and temporal), a basicmultimaterial treatment [2], and an adaptivequadratic two-shock Riemannsolver [12] with either a standard high resolution unsplit direct Eule-rian methodor the new weighted adaptive Runge-Kutta scheme [15]. In the present calculations, out-flow boundaryconditions areimposedat theedgesof thecomputational mesh,which is comprisedof a� cm F� cmdomain.

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3.3 New Hydrodynamics Algorithm

Our earliergascurtain comparisons suggestedthatthehydrodynamicsalgorithm playsa significant rolein the computed dynamics.The standard numerical methods did not faithfully reproduce the details oftheexperimentalgascurtain data,which led usto careful consideration of the basichydrodynamicsal-gorithm.Thatinvestigation, togetherwith numerical tests,suggestedthatthehigh-ordertermsassociatedwith acoustic wave propagationmayhave affected our gascurtain simulations. Thosecalculationsalsoexhibitedasurprisingdegreeof temporaloscillations;suchbehavior is related to sound wavesinteractingwith density variationsin theflow. Further examination indicatedthatsuch featuresareoftennotdetectedby thespatial differencing, prompting usto consider temporal adaptationof thealgorithm.

Standard differencing methods are typically adaptive in space, with the time differencing remainingidentical for all cells (andusually all time steps). That is, adaptivity—by which we meandifferencingalgorithm adaptivity, not meshadaptivity—is implementedsolely throughthespatial differencingopera-tor. Instead,we emplytwo independent methods to estimatethetime advancementandthen nonlinearlymergetheseresults usinglimiting techniquesborrowedfrom spatial differencingmethods.Thisapproachis a defacto acknowledgement that thetemporal field is varying in a way that is not reflectedin thespa-tial profiles. In a sense,thecomputed flow field is not evolving in a manner consistent with hyperbolicself-similarity, sothattime andspacedifferencesmaynot befreely exchanged.

Theweightedadaptive Runge-Kuttamethod(WARK) scheme[15] uses a nonlinear combinationof theusual stagesof theRunge-Kuttamethodasfollows. A linearmultistepmethod(Adams-Bashforth) andaforward-in-timetechnique(Lax-Wendroff style)arebothusedto advancethevariables.Wherethesolu-tion varies smoothly in time, i.e., if thesetwo results agree to somechosen accuracy, thehigh accuracyschemeresult will berecovered.Wherethesolution variesgreatly, i.e., if thetwo results aresufficientlydifferent in magnitudeor vary in sign, thenthetime differencing is modifiedby weights thatarechosento biasthe solution in favor of the smoother time variation. This nonlinearcombination mustbe com-puted separately on the fluxesso that the resultant method remains in conservation form. The effect ofthe temporal adaptation is to make the time differencing a nonlinear, convex combination of the twomethods basedon thesmoothnessof each time derivative estimate.

4 Analysis Techniques

Sincepointwisecomparisonof theevolving unstableflow is problematic,we employ statistical methodsby which to gaugethesub-integral scalebehavior. Specifically, we measure the local fractal dimensionandthecontiuouswavelet energyspectrum, by which we canquantitatively compare, over somerangeof length scales,experimentalobservations andcomputational results.See[9] for further details.

Fractalanalysishasbeenusedextensively to characterize,both theoretically andexperimentally, turbu-lent fluid phenomena[18]. We consider the variation method[5] for computing the fractal dimensionof a surface.For a given scale G , onecalculatesthe upperand lower envelopesof the datain local G -neighborhoods.The G -variation, computedasmeanof thedifferencebetweenthesesurfaces,is thenusedto estimatethe overall fractal dimension.The algorithm for this calculation is both moreefficient thanthat for the conventional fractal box counting approach [7] and lesscomplicatedto implement. Fromtheseresults we infer the local fractal dimension (akin to the “coveragedimension” of [4]), which isthe scaling exponent betweeneachpair of variation-dimension/length-scalesdata. Although numericalapproximations to the fractal dimensionsuffer from a numberof shortcomings[8], suchconsiderations

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do not prevent fractal analysis from providing a useful measure with which to quantitatively compareexperimentaldataor numerical results thatcontain complex structure.

The continuouswavelet transform (CWT) [6] is a spectral technique in which a given function or datasetis projectedontodilated andtranslatedversionsof a basisfunction, known asthe“motherwavelet”.TheCWT is basically a generalized convolution betweenthefunction of interestanda scaledandtrans-latedversion of the motherwavelet. The CWT hasmany applications in dataanalysis [10], includingthe quantification of turbulent flow data[6, 20]. Due to the required natureof the motherwavelet, theCWT characterizes local behavior, unlike the Fourier transform, which quantifies global (or periodic)characteristics. The motherwavelet we consider is the isotropic Marr or “Mexican hat” wavelet givenby H$IKJMLONQPR�DIS UT;V 7 P�WYX�Z[I\T�V 7 �� @PO�!] �^ , where V 7C_ J 72` N 7 . Thewaveletenergy spectrum [6] canbe obtained in termsof the CWT by integratingover translation space, resulting in a scale-dependentmeasure by which experimentsandsimulationscanbequantitatively compared.

5 Results

Wefocusouranalysisonthefinal experimentalvolumefraction image,at �����a� saftershock-SF� contact,to examinethemaximumeffect of thenonlinear flow evolution. Calculations wererun on mesheswithb J+�E�����@ and �����&� with all schemesand,additionally, at

b J��E�����!�@� for theSLR scheme.TheSLRcalculations have anoverall asymptotic convergencerateof approximately unity.

5.1 The Single Cylinder

Resultsfor thesingle cylindervolumefraction images,local �dc , andCWTspectraareshown in Figure3.The local �ec valuesof the simulations areall comparable except at the largestscales, wherethe SLRvalues increase,albeit in a manner different from theexperiment.Relatively large valuesof �6c at largescales werealsoseenin our earliergascurtain study. All simulations overestimatethe CWT energy atsmallerscales,but theUDE andWARK resultsmostclosely approximatetheexperimentover thelargestrange of scales. Integral scale measures,given in Table2, alsoshowthat the UDE andWARK resultsmostnearlyapproximate theexperiment in these dimensions.

5.2 The Double Cylinder

Resultsfor the volume fraction images,local ��c , and CWT spectra for the three configurationsareshown in Figure4, 5, and6, respectively. The �����f�g���� configuration shows the tightestcoupling of

Table2: Integral scale measures of thecylindersat hi�j�����k� s.

Height(cm) Width (cm) AspectRatioGeometry Exp. SLR UDE ARK Exp. SLR UDE ARK Exp. SLR UDE ARK

SingleCyl. 1.60 1.24 1.51 1.52 1.37 0.93 1.30 1.30 1.17 1.33 1.16 1.17�����D�E���� 1.28 1.48 1.76 1.76 0.87 0.72 1.01 1.02 1.46 2.06 1.74 1.73�����D�E����� 1.72 1.64 2.13 2.14 0.76 0.72 0.92 0.92 2.26 2.28 2.32 2.33�����D�l ���� 1.77 1.66 2.30 2.30 0.72 0.69 0.92 0.93 2.45 2.41 2.50 2.47

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Figure3: Toprow: SF� volumefraction imagesof thesingle cylinderat hi�j�����k� spost-shockfor, fromleft to right, theexperiment (solid), SLRmethod with

b J%�m�����&� cm(dotted), UDE methodon thesamegrid (grey), andWARK methodon thesamegrid (dashed).Bottomrow: corresponding plotsof local �nc(left) andCWT spectrum (right) vs.scale.

the vortical structures, dueto the diffuseinitial condition (seeFig.2); the final state displays structureevocative of thesingle cylindercase(cf. Fig.3). Thecases with greater initial separation, Figs.5 and6,develop “mushroomcaps”, like thosein idealRM instability, which rotate with theinducedvorticity.

In all cases,theSLR methods giveslessroll-up in themushroom capsanda morepronounced“bridge”betweenthesestructures.For theSLRmethod, this mayberelatedto theminmodlimiter used. Overall,the grossmorphology of the UDE andWARK results (e.g.,the roll-up) qualitatively approximates theexperiment moreclosely thanSLR. The integral scalemeasures,given in Table2, arethe dimensionsof the box that boundsthe entire structure; in these measures, the morecompactSLR structuresmostclosely matchtheexperimentaldataoverall.

Examinationof thestatistical measuresrevealsdifferencesprimarily between theSLRandUDE/WARKcodes. In eachcase,thelocal �oc at smallerscalesis comparableamongthesimulations;at intermediatescales, the UDE andWARK results moreclosely matchthedata, especially in the �����p�q����� and ����cases. Only at the largest scales in the �����p�r���� and ���� doesthe behavior of the SLR results betterapproximatetheexperiment.

TheCWT spectraof thesimulationsarelargely comparableat thesmallest scales, againovershootingtheexperimentalvalues. TheUDE andWARK valuesarevirtually identical andmostclosely approximatetheexperimentoverall. Only in the �����D�E���� casedoestheSLRcodegiveslightly better CWT results.

6 Summary

Wehaveexaminedthegascurtain Richtmyer-Meshkov experimentsof Prestridgeetal. [11] andTomkinset al. [19] together with idealizednumerical simulations of these experimentsusing different hydrody-namicsalgorithms.All simulations exhibit qualitatively similar behavior for the single cylinder, whilethedouble cylinder appearsto bea moresensitive configuration. Although thenew WARK methodgavesuperior results for gascurtainsimulationsinitialized with anexperimentalimage,thisnew adaptivetime

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Figure4: Top row: SF� volumefraction imagesof the �M���s�D���� double cylinder at ht�u�����U� s post-shock for, from left to right, theexperiment(solid), SLRwith

b J%�m�����&� cm(dotted), UDE on thesamegrid (grey), andWARK on the samegrid (dashed).Bottom row: corresponding plots of local �:c (left)andCWT spectrum (right) vs.scale.

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b J%�m�����&� cm(dotted), UDE on thesamegrid (grey), andWARK on the samegrid (dashed).Bottom row: corresponding plots of local �:c (left)andCWT spectrum (right) vs.scale.

differencing algorithm is virtually identical, in fractal andwaveletspectra, to a standardUDE schemeinthesesimulationsof shockedgascylinderswith diffused idealized initi al conditions.Consistentwith thisresult, we speculatethatWARK andUDE results maydiffer at later (scaled) times,whennonlinearitiesin both the flow andthe algorithms would be morefully developed.Examination of experimentalpar-ticle imagevelocimetrydatawill help us to betterunderstand thedifferencesbetween experimentsandsimulations,aswill quantification of ensemblesof experimentalandsimulationrealizations.

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b J%�m�����&� cm(dotted), UDE on thesamegrid (grey), andWARK on the samegrid (dashed).Bottom row: corresponding plots of local �:c (left)andCWT spectrum (right) vs.scale.

Acknowledgements

Thiswork is availableasLosAlamosNational Laboratory report LA-UR-02-2212,andwasperformedatLosAlamosNational Laboratory, which is operatedby theUniversity of California for theUnitedStatesDepartment of Energy under contractW-7405-ENG-36.

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