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In the classical Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability, initial conditions are forgotten and the growth of the mixing layer becomes self-similar when short wavelength modes couple to generate longer wavelength modes. In this paper, we explore…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-16 Mingxuan Liu , Elizabeth P. Hicks

The magnetic-Rayleigh--Taylor (MRT) instability is a ubiquitous phenomenon that occurs in magnetically-driven Z-pinch implosions. It is important to understand this instability since it can decrease the performance of such implosions. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 D. E. Ruiz

It is still an open problem whether the inhibition phenomenon of Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability by horizontal magnetic field can be mathematically proved in a non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Youyi Zhao

We consider the long-standing problem of Rayleigh-Taylor instability with variable acceleration, and focus on the early-time dynamics of an interface separating incompressible ideal fluids of different densities subject to an acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Des L. Hill , Aklant K. Bhowmick , Snezhana I. Abarzhi

The linearized Navier-Stokes equations for a system of superposed immiscible compressible ideal fluids are analyzed. The results of the analysis reconcile the stabilizing and destabilizing effects of compressibility reported in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Livescu

In this research, the height, curvature and velocity of the bubble tip in Rayleigh-Taylor instability at arbitrary Atwood number with horizontal magnetic field are investigated. To support the earlier simulation and experimental results,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Rahul Banerjee

Early turbulence in periodic cylinder arrays is of particular interest in many practical applications to enhance mixing and material/heat exchange. In this study, we reveal a new early transition pathway to a chaotic wavy state and drag…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-17 Lu Zhu , Rich R. Kerswell

We theoretically study the Plateau-Rayleigh instability of a thin viscous film covering a fiber consisting of a rigid cylindrical core coated with a thin compressible elastic layer. We develop a soft-lubrication model, combining the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-20 Bharti Bharti , Andreas Carlson , Tak Shing Chan , Thomas Salez

This paper concerns a diffuse interface model for the flow of two incompressible viscoelastic fluids in a bounded domain. More specifically, the fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but with a small transition region, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Yadong Liu , Dennis Trautwein

It is well known that the Poiseuille flow of a visco-elastic polymer fluid between plates or through a tube is linearly stable in the zero Reynolds number limit, although the stability is weak for large Weissenberg numbers. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernard Meulenbroek , Cornelis Storm , Alexander N. Morozov , Wim van Saarloos

The late-time growth of single-mode immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor instability is investigated over a comprehensive range of the Reynolds numbers ($1\leq Re \leq 10000$) and Atwood numbers $(0.05 \leq A \leq 0.7)$ using an improved lattice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Haowei Huang , Zhenhua Xia , Hong Liang , Yajing Zong , Jiangrong Xu

We study the sedimentation of finite-size inertial particles in a Rayleigh-Taylor-like setup using state-of-the-art direct numerical simulations. The falling particles are observed to produce two distinct regions: a leading mixing layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-28 Simone Tandurella , Marco Edoardo Rosti , Stefano Musacchio , Guido Boffetta

The linear stability analysis of the pressure-driven flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a plane channel is performed to examine the effects of viscous heating-induced buoyancy on the ``purely elastic instability" predicted by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-06 Ankush Kamboj , Ramkarn Patne , P. A. L. Narayana , Kirti Chandra Sahu

The potential flow of an incompressible inviscid heavy fluid over a light one is considered. The integral version of the method of matched asymptotic expansion is applied to the construction of the solution over long intervals of time. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 V. M. Cherniavski , Yu. M. Shtemler

The pair of fluids, FC72- 1cSt silicone oil, exhibiting temperature-sensitive miscibility gap is considered in this study to investigate the classical Rayleigh-B\'enard-Marangoni (RBM) instability. The system of fluids is considered at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-15 Anubhav Dubey , Saumyakanta Mishra , S. V. Diwakar , Sakir Amiroudine

The effects of a dispersed particulate phase on the onset of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a fluid layer is studied theoretically by means of a two-fluid Eulerian modelization. The particles are non-Brownian, spherical, with inertia and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Saad Raza , Silvia C. Hirata , Enrico Calzavarini

We prove the existence of a unique unstable strong solution in the sense of $L^1$-norm for an abstract Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem arising from stratified viscous fluids in Lagrangian coordinates based on a bootstrap instability method.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Weicheng Zhan

The effect of viscous drag and surface tension on the nonlinear two fluid inter facial structures induced by Rayleigh -Taylor instability and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability are investigated.Viscosity and surface tension play important roles…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. R. Gupta , Rahul Banerjee , L. K. Mandal , R. Bhar , H. C. Pant , Manoranjan Khan , M. K. Srivastava

It is well-known that the Rayleigh--Taylor (abbr. RT) instability can be completely inhibited by the quantum effect stabilization in proper circumstances leading to a cutoff wavelength in the \emph{linear} motion equations. Motivated by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Fei Jiang , Yajie Zhang , Zhipeng Zhang , Youyi Zhao

Elastic turbulence is a chaotic flow state observed in dilute polymer solutions in the absence of inertia. It was discovered experimentally in circular geometries and has long been thought to require a finite amplitude perturbation in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-08 Miguel Beneitez , Jacob Page , Rich R. Kerswell