sandbox/kaitaotang/README

Welcome to the sandbox of Kaitao Tang. I obtained my PhD degree at the Department of Engineering Sience, University of Oxford in July 2025, and am continuing within the same research group as a postdoc. Here are the archived Basilisk codes for some problems I have investigated since September 2019.

Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability with surface tension

• Publication: Tang, K., Mostert, W., Fuster, D., & Deike, L. (2021). Effects of surface tension on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in fully compressible and inviscid fluids. Physical Review Fluids, 6(11), 113901.
• Code: rmst.c.

Laminar droplet bag breakup with MD film perforation

• Publication: Tang, K., Adcock, T. A. A., & Mostert, W. (2023). Bag film breakup of droplets in uniform airflows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 970, A9.
• Code: dw14l11.c.

Transverse collision of two perturbed liquid rims

• Publication: Tang, K., Adcock, T. A. A., & Mostert, W. (2024). Fragmentation of Colliding Liquid Rims. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 987, A18.
• Code: docoll3d.c.

Turbulent aerobreakup

• Publication: Tang, K., Adcock, T. A., & Mostert, W. (2025). Droplet bag formation in turbulent airflows. Physical Review Fluids, 10(3), 033604.
• Code: turb_inlet_imposed.h; dw14l11_turb.c.

Auxiliary models

• Taylor-Culick rim recession on a spherical shell: stc14l11.c.