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

The temporal evolution of a water-sand interface driven by gravity is experimentally investigated. By means of a Fourier analysis of the evolving interface the growth rates are determined for the different modes appearing in the developing…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Lange , M. Schröter , M. A. Scherer , A. Engel , I. Rehberg

The effects of isothermal stratification strength on vorticity dynamics for single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) are examined using two dimensional fully compressible wavelet-based direct numerical simulations. The simulations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-17 Scott A. Wieland , Peter E. Hamlington , Scott J. Reckinger , Daniel Livescu

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

The dynamics of turbulent mixing induced by Rayleigh-Taylor instability are heavily dependent on the acceleration experienced by the fluids and the frequency content of the initial interface between them. Both are readily controllable in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-17 J. T. Horne-Jones , D. J. Glinnan , A. G. W. Lawrie , R. J. R. Williams

We investigate bubble deformations in an homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow by means of direct numerical simulations of a single bubble in turbulence. We examine interface deformations by decomposing the local radius into the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-24 Aliénor Rivière , Kamel Abahri , Stéphane Perrard

The linear growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at ionization fronts is investigated via perturbation analysis in the limit of incompressible fluids. In agreement with previous numerical studies is found that absorption of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Massimo Ricotti

The shock wave instability induced when interacting with a small waviness on an interface was investigated analytically and numerically. The perturbation to the shock was phenomenologically treated assuming this as the consequence of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Markhotok

This paper studies the dynamics of an incompressible fluid driven by gravity and capillarity forces in a porous medium. The main interest is the stabilization of the fluid in Rayleigh-Taylor unstable situations where the fluid lays on top…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Francisco Gancedo , Rafael Granero-Belinchon , Stefano Scrobogna

This article sheds light on the late-time influence of initial conditions in Boussinesq Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence using an approach combining direct numerical simulations, machine learning and theory. The initial conditions are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sébastien Thévenin , Benoît-Joseph Gréa

We study the dynamics of the interface given by two incompressible viscous fluids in the Stokes regime filling a 2D horizontally periodic strip. The fluids are subject to the gravity force and the density difference induces the dynamics of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Francisco Gancedo , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Elena Salguero

We investigate some unstable behavior of the interface given by two incompressible fluids of different densities evolving by the regular Stokes law with gravity force. In the unstable scenario, where the denser fluid lies above the lighter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Francisco Gancedo , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Zhongtian Hu , Elena Salguero , Yao Yao

This paper investigates the well-posedness and Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability for a system of two-dimensional nonhomogeneous incompressible fluid, subject to the non-slip and Naiver-slip boundary conditions at the outer and inner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Liang Li , Quan Wang

In this paper, we are interested in the nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for the gravity-driven incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier-slip boundary conditions around a smooth increasing density profile $\rho_0(x_2)$ in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Tien-Tai Nguyen

We investigate the linear instability of flows that are stable according to Rayleigh's criterion for rotating fluids. Using Taylor-Couette flow as a primary test case, we develop large Reynolds number matched asymptotic expansion theories.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Kengo Deguchi , Ming Dong

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of two layers of immiscible, inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational fluids through a full nonlinear system. Our goal is to establish a virial theorem and prove the polynomial growth of slope and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Haocheng Yang

We study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at a prominence-corona transition region in a non-linear regime. Our aim is to understand how the presence of neutral atoms in the prominence plasma influences the instability growth rate, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 E. Khomenko , A. Diaz , A. de Vicente , M. Collados , M. Luna

We assess experimentally the scaling laws that characterize the mixing region produced by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a confined porous medium. In particular, we wish to assess experimentally the existence of a superlinear scaling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-02 Marco De Paoli , Diego Perissutti , Cristian Marchioli , Alfredo Soldati

A numerical investigation for the stability of the incompressible slip flow of normal quantum fluids (above the critical phase transition temperature) inside a microslab where surface acoustic waves propagate along the walls is presented.…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kwang-Hua Chu

We numerically calculate the growth and saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability caused by the deceleration of relativistic outflows with Lorentz factor {\Gamma} = 10, 30, and 100. The instability generates turbulence whose scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul C. Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen