Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
KHFields

Animation of the CFD analysis results. Top-left plot: Pressure field. Top-right plot: Velocity magnitude and Arrow Surface. Bottom-left plot: Vorticity surface, vorticity contours, and velocity Arrow Surface. Bottom-right plot: Arrow Line. Left legend: Vorticity [1/a]. Top-right legend: Pressure [Pa]. Bottom-right legend: Velocity magnitude [m/s].

MassTransportKH

Mass transport simulation animation. Legend: Concentration [mol/m3].

ParticleTracingKH

Particle tracing simulation animation.

1Valerio Marra. March 18, 2014. COMSOL Blog. Simulating Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Climate Dynamics. https://www.comsol.com/blogs/simulating-kelvin-helmholtz-instability-climate-dynamics

2Abigail Beall. Soap-bubble cyclone is a deadly storm in miniature. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129530-100-soap-bubble-cyclone-is-a-deadly-storm-in-miniature/#.UwqNaPldXE0

3Bell, John & Colella, Phillip & Glaz, Harland. (1989). A second-order projection method for the Navier-Stokes equations. Journal of Computational Physics. 85. 257-283. 10.1016/0021-9991(89)90151-4.

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