The eruption of a high-pressure cylindrical heavy gas cloud

The physical explosion of a high-pressure and cylindrical dense gas (SF6) cloud has been simulated with the use of large eddy simulation (LES), and hybrid high-order schemes have been employed to solve the LES equations. Our results show that, while the shockwave is exploding from the SF6 to the air, it bifurcates into the reflected rarefaction wave and the transmitted shock, and a reverse shock also appears. The rarefaction wave moves inward first, the Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instabilities occur as the transmitted shock accelerates the interface between the SF6 and the air. Later, the rarefaction wave merges with the reverse shock, and finally converges at the origin of the cloud, which generates a strong circular reflected shock, and makes the flow field complex.