jwjacobs@email.arizona.edu

520.621.8459

AME N731

Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Instability Laboratory

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Jeffrey W. Jacobs

Elwin G. Wood Distinguished Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Courses

Instrumentation Lab

AME 300 (Spring 2019)
AME 300 (Spring 2018)
AME 300 (Fall 2017)

Gasdynamics

AME 323 (Spring 2017)

Internal Combustion Engines

AME 434 (Fall 2018)

Research

AME 900 (Spring 2019)
AME 900 (Fall 2018)
AME 900 (Spring 2018)
AME 900 (Fall 2017)
AME 900 (Fall 2016)

Thesis

AME 910 (Spring 2017)
AME 910 (Fall 2016)

Dissertation

AME 920 (Fall 2017)

Selected Publications

Journals/Publications

Morgan, R. V., Cabot, W. H., Greenough, J. A., & Jacobs, J. W. (2018). Rarefaction-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Part 2. Experiments and simulations in the nonlinear regime. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, 838, 320-355.
Krivets, V. V., Ferguson, K. J., & Jacobs, J. W. (2017). Turbulent Mixing Induced by Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability. SHOCK COMPRESSION OF CONDENSED MATTER - 2015, 1793.
Morgan, R. V., Likhachev, O. A., & Jacobs, J. W. (2016). Rarefaction-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Part 1. Diffuse-interface linear stability measurements and theory. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, 791, 34-60.
Roberts, M. S., & Jacobs, J. W. (2016). The effects of forced small-wavelength, finite-bandwidth initial perturbations and miscibility on the turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor instability. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, 787, 50-83.
Jacobs, J. W., Krivets, V. V., Tsiklashvili, V., & Likhachev, O. A. (2013). Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with an imposed, random initial perturbation. SHOCK WAVES, 23(4), 407-413.
Jacobs, J. W., Krivets, V. V., Tsiklashvili, V., & Likhachev, O. A. (2013). Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with an imposed, random initial perturbation. Shock Waves, 23(4), 407-413.
Morgan, R. V., Aure, R., Stockero, J. D., Greenough, J. A., Cabot, W., Likhachev, O. A., & Jacobs, J. W. (2012). On the late-time growth of the two-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in shock tube experiments. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, 712, 354-383.
Morgan, R. V., Aure, R., Stockero, J. D., Greenough, J. A., Cabot, W., Likhachev, O. A., & Jacobs, J. W. (2012). On the late-time growth of the two-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in shock tube experiments. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 712, 354-383.
Tsiklashvili, V., E., P., Likhachev, O. A., & Jacobs, J. W. (2012). An experimental study of small Atwood number Rayleigh-Taylor instability using the magnetic levitation of paramagnetic fluids. Physics of Fluids, 24(5).
Tsiklashvili, V., Romero, C., Likhachev, O. A., & Jacobs, J. W. (2012). An experimental study of small Atwood number Rayleigh-Taylor instability using the magnetic levitation of paramagnetic fluids. PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, 24(5).
Aure, R., & Jacobs, J. W. (2009). Particle image velocimetry study of shock-induced single mode Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. SHOCK WAVES, VOL 2, PROCEEDINGS, 1193-1198.
Krivets, V. V., Long, C. C., Jacobs, J. W., & Greenough, J. A. (2009). Shock tube experiments and numerical simulation of the single mode three-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. SHOCK WAVES, VOL 2, PROCEEDINGS, 1205-+.
Long, C. C., Krivets, V. V., Greenough, J. A., & Jacobs, J. W. (2009). Shock tube experiments and numerical simulation of the single-mode, three-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, 21(11).
Long, C. C., Krivets, V. V., Greenough, J. A., & Jacobs, J. W. (2009). Shock tube experiments and numerical simulation of the single-mode, three-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. Physics of Fluids, 21(11), 1-9.
Olson, D. H., & Jacobs, J. W. (2009). Experimental study of Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a complex initial perturbation. PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, 21(3).

Poster Presentations

Sewell, E., Krivets, V., & Jacobs, J. W. (2018, July). Time Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements of the Richtmyer Meshkov Instability. 16th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing. Marseille, France.

Presentations

Ferguson, K., Mokler, M., & Jacobs, J. W. (2018, July). The Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in a Two-Shock Vertical Shock Tube. 16th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing. Marseille, France.
Ferguson, K., Sewell, E., & Jacobs, J. W. (2018, November). Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in a dual-shock vertical shock tube. 71st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. Atlanta, GA.
Jacobs, J. W. (2018, February). An Experimental Study of the Turbulent Development of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities. The Stockpile Stewardship Academic Alliances Program Symposium. Washington, DC: National Nuclear Security Administration.
Jacobs, J. W. (2018, July). Experiments and Models of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities. 16th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing. Marseille, France.
Jacobs, J. W., & Mokler, M. (2018, November). Experimental Study of the Incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability. 71st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. Atlanta, GA.
Mokler, M., Krivets, V., & Jacobs, J. W. (2018, July). Incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiments using Miscible and Immiscible Fluids. 16th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing. Marseille, France.
Jacobs, J. W. (2016, July). Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing. Sydney, Australia.
Jacobs, J. W. (2013, July). Vorticity and vortex models in shock accelerated gas inhomogeneities. 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves. Madison, WI.