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In this article we consider the inhomogeneous incompressible Euler equations describing two fluids with different constant densities under the influence of gravity as a differential inclusion. By considering the relaxation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Björn Gebhard , József J. Kolumbán , László Székelyhidi

Guo--Tice formally established in 2011 that the Rayleigh--Taylor instability inevitably occurs within stratified compressible viscous fluids in a slab domain $\mathbb{R}^2\times (h_-,h_+)$, irrespecive of the presence of interfacial surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Fei Jiang , Han Jiang , Song Jiang

We investigate the Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the two interfaces in a phase-separated three-component Bose-Einstein condensate in the mean-field framework. The subsequent dynamics in the immiscible three-component condensate has been…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-01 Arpana Saboo , Soumyadeep Halder , Subrata Das , Sonjoy Majumder

The Plateau-Rayleigh instability shows that a cylindrical fluid flow can be destabilized by surface tension. Similarly, capillary forces can make an elastic cylinder unstable when the elastocapillary length is comparable to the cylinder's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 F. Magni , D. Riccobelli

When a viscous fluid partially fills a Hele--Shaw channel, and is pushed by a pressure difference, the fluid interface is unstable due to the Saffman--Taylor instability. We consider the evolution of a fluid region of finite extent, bounded…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-20 Michael C Dallaston , Michael J W Jackson , Liam C Morrow , Scott W McCue

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

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability occurs in a variety of scenario as a consequence of fluids of different densities pushing against the density gradient. For example, it is expected to occur in the ion acceleration of solid density targets…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Z. Liu , M. K. Zhao , P. L. Bai , X. J. Yang , R. Qi , Y. Xu , J. W. Wang , Y. X. Leng , J. H. Bin , R. X. Li

We consider the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the early evolution of the rarefied radio bubbles (cavities) observed in many cooling flow clusters of galaxies. The top of a bubble becomes prone to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabio Pizzolato , Noam Soker

Using air to displace a viscous fluid contained in Hele-Shaw cell can create a fingering pattern at the interface between the fluids, if the capillary number exceeds a critical value. This Saffman-Taylor instability is revisited for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-03 Ilyesse Bihi , Michael Baudoin , Jason E. Butler , Christine Faille , Farzam Zoueshtiagh

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities are prevalent in many physical regimes ranging from astrophysical to laboratory plasmas and have primarily been studied using fluid models, the majority of which have been ideal fluid models. This work is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 John Rodman , Petr Cagas , Ammar Hakim , Bhuvana Srinivasan

This letter investigates the effect of shear on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI). Even simple uniform shear strongly influences the instability; longer waves are completely stabilized when density stratification is large (higher Atwood…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-24 Raunak Raj , Anirban Guha

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

We study the Hele-Shaw immiscible displacements when all surfaces tensions on the interfaces are zero. The Saffman-Taylor instability occurs when a less viscous fluid is displacing a more viscous one, in a rectangular Hele-Shaw cell. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-19 Gelu Paşa

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) refers to the baroclinic generation of vorticity at a perturbed density interface when impacted by a shock wave. It is often thought of as the impulsive limit of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Manuel Lombardini , Ralf Deiterding

We investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth steady density profile solution of the threedimensional nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of a uniform gravitational field, including a Rayleigh-Taylor…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Guoxi Ni

The hydrodynamic instabilities of propagating interfaces in Hele-Shaw channels or porous media under the influence of an imposed flow and gravitational acceleration are investigated within the framework of Darcy's law. The stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-13 Joel Daou , Prabakaran Rajamanickam

The Saffman-Taylor problem addresses the morphological instability of an interface separating two immiscible, viscous fluids when they move in a narrow gap between two flat parallel plates (Hele-Shaw cell). In this work, we extend the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Parisio , F. Moraes , Jose A. Miranda , Michael Widom

This work investigates the morphological stability of a soft body composed of two heavy elastic layers, attached to a rigid surface and subjected only to the bulk gravity force. Using theoretical and computational tools, we characterize the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-21 Davide Riccobelli , Pasquale Ciarletta

When a liquid slams into a solid, the intermediate gas is squeezed out at a speed that diverges when approaching the moment of impact. Although there is mounting experimental evidence that instabilities form on the liquid interface during…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Devaraj van der Meer

We study the equations obtained from linearizing the compressible Navier-Stokes equations around a steady-state profile with a heavier fluid lying above a lighter fluid along a planar interface, i.e. a Rayleigh-Taylor instability. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-25 Yan Guo , Ian Tice