| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Short Primer on Basic Averaging and Modeling Approaches for Turbulent Mixing Instabilities | |
| Single-Fluid Approach: Example of Dam's k-¿ Model | p. 7 |
| Single-Fluid Statistical Equations | p. 7 |
| An Elementary Single-Fluid Closure: The Incompressible k-¿ Model | p. 11 |
| An Extension to Variable Densities: Dam's k-¿ Model | p. 13 |
| Two-Fluid Approach: Example of Awe's Model | p. 17 |
| Two-Fluid Statistical Equations | p. 17 |
| An Elementary Two-Fluid Closure: Awe's Model | p. 23 |
| Summary of Part I | p. 29 |
| "OD" Reduction of Experiments and Models in Mixing Instabilities | |
| Mixing Instabilities in Developed Regime: Phenomenology of Energy Balances | p. 33 |
| Review of Different Instability Types and Regimes | p. 33 |
| "OD" Energy Balance in Self-Similar, Incompressible, Developed Regime at Zero Atwood Number | p. 34 |
| "OD" Turbulent Energy and Structure in Self-Similar, Incompressible, Developed Regime at Zero Atwood Number | p. 37 |
| "OD" Reduction of Evolution Equations of Hydrodynamic Models | p. 43 |
| Reconstruction by Dam's k-¿ Model of Developed Mixing Instabilities | p. 47 |
| Comments on the "Richtmyer-Meshkov" Calibration of Coefficients C¿O and <$>\sigma_{\varrho}<$> | p. 47 |
| "OD" Reconstruction by Dam's k-¿ Model of Basic Self-Similar Instabilities | p. 49 |
| General Remarks, Reconstruction of the Directed Kinetic Energy | p. 49 |
| Construction and Resolution of the "OD" Differential System | p. 49 |
| Realizability of Turbulent Closures | p. 54 |
| Estimation of Errors Introduced by the "OD" Approach | p. 54 |
| "OD Rayleigh-Taylor" Calibration of Coefficients C¿O and <$>\sigma_{\varrho}<$> | p. 55 |
| Discussion of the "OD" Results | p. 55 |
| Stability and the RT Case with Self-Similar Variable Acceleration | p. 56 |
| Conclusions on Dam's k-¿ Model | p. 60 |
| Awe's Two-Fluid Model of Developed Mixing Instabilities | p. 63 |
| "OD" Reconstruction by Awe's Two-Fluid Model of Basic Self-Similar Instabilities | p. 63 |
| General Remarks, Drag Characteristic Length Scale | p. 63 |
| Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Cases | p. 64 |
| Kelvin-Helmholtz Case | p. 66 |
| Calibration of Coefficients Ci and Cd of Awe's Two-Fluid Model | p. 70 |
| Effect of the Coefficients on KH, RT, and RM Instabilities | p. 70 |
| Stability and the RT Case with Self-Similar Variable Acceleration | p. 71 |
| Summary of Part II | p. 75 |
| Comparative Assessment of Models, New Development Approaches | |
| Comparison of Single- and Two-Fluid Approaches | p. 79 |
| Summary of "OD" Reconstructions of the Three Instabilities by the Single- and Two-Fluid Models | p. 79 |
| About the "Rayleigh-Taylor" Source Term in Single-FluidModels | p. 81 |
| Two-fluid Realizability of Single-Fluid Closures of Turbulent Fluxes | p. 84 |
| The "Two-Fluid Extended" Single-Fluid Approach | p. 86 |
| Specific Treatment of Shocks: Constraints on Models | p. 93 |
| Qualitative Phenomenology of Interaction Between a Shock and Velocity or Density Heterogeneities | p. 93 |
| Preliminary Comments on Modeling of Shock-Heterogeneity Interaction | p. 96 |
| On Artificial Dissipation in a Two-Fluid Medium | p. 99 |
| Basic Bias Estimates of Dam's k-¿ and Awe's Two-Fluid Models Applied to Shock-Turbulence Interaction | p. 102 |
| Some Perspectives on Further Developments of Models | p. 107 |
| About Second-Order Extensions of Single-Fluid Turbulent Mixing Models | p. 107 |
| Molecular Interdiffusion, Demixing, and Separation of Geometric and Turbulent Scales | p. 109 |
| Interdiffusion | p. 109 |
| Geometric and Turbulent Scales | p. 112 |
| <$$$> Self-Similar Variable Acceleration Rayleigh-Taylor Flows (SSVARTs) | p. 113 |
| Extension of SSVARTs to n < -2 | p. 113 |
| Spectral Quasi-Equilibrium and Relevance of Models in SSVARTs | p. 115 |
| Summary of Part III | p. 119 |
| Conclusion, Future Modeling Trends | p. 121 |
| Notations and Acronyms | p. 125 |
| Modeling of Noise Term | p. 129 |
| Correction of the Input Energy, KI, of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability | p. 131 |
| Turbulent Flux of k Expressed in Two-Fluid Terms | p. 133 |
| About the Effects of Compressibility on Closures of Turbulent Fluxes | p. 135 |
| References | p. 137 |
| Index | p. 147 |
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