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The Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability is ubiquitously observed, yet has traditionally been studied using ideal fluid models. Collisionality can vary strongly across the fluid interface, and previous work demonstrates the necessity of kinetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-15 John Rodman , James Juno , Bhuvana Srinivasan

We derive here a new stability criterion for two-fluid interfaces. This criterion ensures the existence of "stable" local solutions that do no break down too fast due to Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. It can be seen both as a two-fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 David Lannes

We review three different types of viscoelastic surface instabilities: The Rayleigh -- Plateau, the Saffman -- Taylor and the Faraday instability. These instabilities are classical examples of hydrodynamic surface instabilities. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Lindner , C. Wagner

In an effort to study the stability of contact lines in fluids, we consider the dynamics of an incompressible viscous Stokes fluid evolving in a two-dimensional open-top vessel under the influence of gravity. This is a free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

We study the inviscid limit problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation on a half-plane with a Navier boundary condition depending on the viscosity. On one hand, we prove the $L^2$ convergence of Leray solutions to the solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Matthew Paddick

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

Linear stability analysis currently fails to predict turbulence transition in canonical viscous flows. We show that two alternative models of the boundary condition for incipient perturbations at solid walls produce linear instabilities…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-11 John O. Dabiri , Anthony Leonard

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability commonly arises in compressible systems with time-dependent acceleration in practical applications. To capture the complex dynamics of such systems, a two-component discrete Boltzmann method is developed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Hao Xu , Hailong Liu , Demei Li , Bailing Chen

It is known that an axisymmetric viscous film flowing down the outside of a thin vertical fiber becomes unstable to interfacial perturbations. We present an experimental study using fluids with different densities, surface tensions and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Linda B. Smolka , Justin North , Bree K. Guerra

In the present treatise, a stability analysis of the bottom boundary layer under solitary waves based on energy bounds and nonmodal theory is performed. The instability mechanism of this flow consists of a competition between streamwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-25 Joris C. G. Verschaeve , Geir K. Pedersen , Cameron Tropea

We consider an incompressible viscous flow without surface tension in a finite- depth domain of three dimension, with free top boundary. This system is governed by a Naiver-Stokes equation in a moving domain and a transport equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Lei Wu

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 effects of polymer additives on Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability of immiscible fluids is investigated using the Oldroyd-B viscoelastic model. Analytic results obtained exploiting the phase-field approach show that in polymer solution…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , L. Vozella

We experimentally study gravity-capillary wave turbulence on the interface between two immiscible fluids of close density with free upper surface. We locally measure the wave height at the interface between both fluids by means of a highly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Bruno Issenmann , Claude Laroche , Eric Falcon

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Makoto Hirota , Philip J. Morrison

We consider the evolution of two incompressible fluids with homogeneous densities $\rho_-<\rho_+$ subject to gravity described by the inviscid Boussinesq equations and provide the explicit relaxation of the associated differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Björn Gebhard , József J. Kolumbán

In this paper, we investigate steady two-dimensional free-surface flows of an inviscid and incompressible fluid emerging from a nozzle, falling under gravity and impinging onto a horizontal wall. More precisely, for any given atmosphere…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Jianfeng Cheng , Lili Du , Zhouping Xin

In a turbulent boundary layer over a smooth flat plate with zero pressure gradient, the intermediate structure between the viscous sublayer and the free stream consists of two layers: one adjacent to the viscous sublayer and one adjacent to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 G. I. Barenblatt , A. J. Chorin , V. M. Prostokishin

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

We obtain the local existence and uniqueness for a system describing interaction of an incompressible inviscid fluid, modeled by the Euler equations, and an elastic plate, represented by the fourth-order hyperbolic PDE. We provide a~priori…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Igor Kukavica , Amjad Tuffaha