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The aim of this paper is to show time-decay estimates of solutions to linearized two-phase Navier-Stokes equations with surface tension and gravity. The original two-phase Navier-Stokes equations describe the two-phase incompressible…

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This paper concerns the dynamics of two layers of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid lying atop one another. The lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom, and the upper fluid is bounded above by a trivial fluid of constant…

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In this paper, we construct growing modes of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations about generic stationary shear flows of the boundary layer type in a regime of sufficiently large Reynolds number: $R \to \infty$. Notably, the shear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Emmanuel Grenier , Yan Guo , Toan T. Nguyen

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

We investigate the stabilizing effects of the magnetic fields in the linearized magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) problem of a nonhomogeneous incompressible viscous magnetohydrodynamic fluid of zero resistivity in the presence of a uniform…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

It is well-known that at the high Reynolds number, the linearized Navier-Stokes equations around the inviscid stable shear profile admit growing mode solutions due to the destabilizing effect of the viscosity. This phenomenon, called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Andrew Yang , Zhu Zhang

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is a key process in many fields of Physics ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. It is usually analyzed deriving the linearized fluid equations, but the physics behind the instability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A Bret

We consider the motion of two superposed immiscible, viscous, incompressible, capillary fluids that are separated by a sharp interface which needs to be determined as part of the problem. Allowing for gravity to act on the fluids, we prove…

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We investigate the effect of surface tension on the linear Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability in stratified incompressible viscous fluids with or without (interface) surface tension. The existence of linear RT instability solutions with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Changsheng Dou , Jialiang Wang , Weiwei Wang

Bresch--Desjardins--Gisclon--Sart had derived that the capillarity slows down the growth rate of Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability in an inhomogeneous incompressible fluid endowed with internal capillarity based on a linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Fei Jiang , Yajie Zhang , Zhipeng Zhang

We prove the existence of weak solutions to steady, compressible non-Newtonian Navier-Stokes system on a bounded, two- or three-dimensional domain. Assuming the viscous stress tensor is monotone satisfying a power-law growth with power $r$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Cosmin Burtea , Maja Szlenk

We study the two-phase, horizontally periodic, quasistationary Stokes flow in two dimensions driven by surface tension and gravity effects in the general context of fluids with (possibly) different viscosities and densities. The sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Daniel Böhme , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

We establish criteria of stability and instability for the stratified compressible magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem. More precisely, if under the stability condition $\Xi <1$, we show the existence of unique solution with algebraic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

In this paper, we investigate the instability of the trivial steady states to the incompressible viscous fluid with Navier-slip boundary conditions. For the linear instability, the existence of infinitely many normal mode solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Tien-Tai Nguyen

We investigate the instability and stability of specific steady-state solutions of the two-dimensional non-homogeneous, incompressible, and viscous Navier-Stokes equations under the influence of a general potential $f$. This potential is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Liang Li , Tao Tan , Quan Wang

We develop a general transfer-matrix formalism for determining the growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a fluid system with spatially varying density and viscosity. We use this formalism to analytically and numerically treat…

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We investigate in this paper the global stability of the compressible viscous surface waves in the absence of surface tension effect with a steady-state violating Rayleigh-Taylor instability and the reference domain being the horizontal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Guilong Gui , Zhifei Zhang

We consider the free boundary problem for two layers of immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluid in a uniform gravitational field, lying above a rigid bottom in a three-dimensional horizontally periodic setting. The effect of surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Yanjin Wang , Ian Tice

Linear stability of inviscid, parallel, and stably stratified shear flow is studied under the assumption of smooth strictly monotonic profiles of shear flow and density, so that the local Richardson number is positive everywhere. The…

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Linearized stability of incompressible viscous fluid flows in a thin spherical shell is studied by using the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations on a sphere. The stationary flow on the sphere has two singularities (a sink and a source)…

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