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This work is devoted to the theoretical study of the stability of two superposed horizontal liquid layers bounded by two solid planes and subjected to a horizontal temperature gradient. The liquids are supposed to be immiscible with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. Madruga , C. Perez-Garcia , G. Lebon

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

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 convective stability of a thin, infinite fluid layer with a rectangular cross-section, subject to imposed heat fluxes at the top and bottom and fixed temperature along the vertical sides. The instability threshold depends…

Recently, Kaladze and Misra [Phys. Scr. 99 (2024) 085013] showed that the tropospheric stratified fluid flows may be unstable by the effects of the negative temperature gradient and the temperature-dependent density inhomogeneity arising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-30 A. P. Misra , T. D. Kaladze , D. T. Kaladze , L. Tsamalashvili

We present a new hydrodynamic model for incompressible binary fluids that is thermodynamically consistent and non-isothermal. This model follows the generalized Onsager principle and Boussinesq approximation and preserves the volume of each…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-14 Shouwen Sun , Liangliang Lei , Qi Wang

Convection of an internally heated fluid, confined between top and bottom plates of equal temperature, is studied by direct numerical simulation in two and three dimensions. The unstably stratified upper region drives convection that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-30 David Goluskin , Erwin P. van der Poel

The convective instability in a plane liquid layer with time-dependent temperature profile is investigated by means of a general method suitable for linear stability analysis of an unsteady basic flow. The method is based on a non-normal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Doumenc , T. Boeck , B. Guerrier , M. Rossi

A statistical-mechanical investigation is performed on Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of a dilute classical gas starting from the Boltzmann equation. We first present a microscopic derivation of basic hydrodynamic equations and an expression…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takafumi Kita

The evolution of three-dimensional, cellular convective flows in a plane horizontal layer of a Boussinesq fluid heated from below is well studied. Here we review results from the investigation of this system as well as a number of related…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-22 Zhe Wu

We present high-resolution direct numerical simulation studies of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection in a closed cylindrical cell with an aspect ratio of one. The focus of our analysis is on the finest scales of convective turbulence, in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-04 Janet D. Scheel , Mohammad S. Emran , Joerg Schumacher

This work studies two-dimensional fixed-flux Rayleigh-B\'enard convection with periodic boundary conditions in both horizontal and vertical directions and analyzes its dynamics using numerical continuation, secondary instability analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-12 Chang Liu , Manjul Sharma , Keith Julien , Edgar Knobloch

Dry granular material flowing on rough inclines can experience a self-induced Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability followed by the spontaneous emergence of convection cells. For this to happen, particles are different in size and density, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-06 Umberto d'Ortona , Nathalie Thomas

In order to explore the effects of climate change on atmospheric convection and the water cycle, we develop and analyse an extension of the Rainy-B\'enard model, which is itself a moist version of the Rayleigh-B\'enard model of dry…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 Gregory N. Dritschel , Steven M. Tobias , Douglas J. Parker , Lorenzo Tomassini

Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection displays a large-scale order in the form of rolls and cells on lengths larger than the layer height once the fluctuations of temperature and velocity are removed. These turbulent superstructures are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-30 Ambrish Pandey , Janet D. Scheel , Jörg Schumacher

The coarsening and wavenumber selection of striped states growing from random initial conditions are studied in a non-relaxational, spatially extended, and far-from-equilibrium system by performing large-scale numerical simulations of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. R. Paul , K-H. Chiam , M. C. Cross , P. F. Fischer

We apply a probabilistic clustering method, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to characterize the largescale dynamics of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection. The method, introduced in Frihat et al. 2021, is applied to a collection of snapshots in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-23 Bérengère Podvin , Laurent Soucasse , François Yvon

Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in slender cylindrical cells exhibits rich dynamics of the large-scale circulation (LSC), with several rolls stacked on top of each other. We propose that the elliptical instability is the mechanism…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-05 Lukas Zwirner , Andreas Tilgner , Olga Shishkina

A novel phase field method is proposed to model the continuous transition of binary fluids exhibiting temperature sensitive miscibility gap, from immiscible state to miscible state via partially miscible states. The model is employed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-28 Anubhav Dubey , Constantin Habes , Holger Marschall , Sakir Amiroudine

The analysis of the Rayleigh-B\'enard instability due to the mass diffusion in a fluid-saturated horizontal porous layer is reconsidered. The standard diffusion theory based on the variance of the molecular position growing linearly in time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Antonio Barletta