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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 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

We derive a theoretical model for the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT)-like instability for a thin foil accelerated by an intense laser, taking into account finite wavelength effects in the laser wave field. The latter leads to the diffraction of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bengt Eliasson

We study the turbulent evolution originated from a system subjected to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a double density at high resolution in a 2 dimensional geometry using a highly optimized thermal Lattice Boltzmann code for GPUs. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Ripesi , L. Biferale , S. F. Schifano , R. Tripiccione

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

The nonlinear evolution of two fluid interfacial structures like bubbles and spikes arising due to the combined action of Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability or due to that of Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 M. R. Gupta , Labakanta Mandal , Sourav Roy , Rahul Banerjee , Manoranjan Khan

In this contribution, we derive a gas-liquid two-scale multi-fluid model with capillarity effects to enable a novelinterface regularization approach for multi-fluid models. As this unified modelling is capable of switching from theinterface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Arthur Loison , Samuel Kokh , Teddy Pichard , Marc Massot

In [F. Jiang, S. Jiang, On instability and stability of three-dimensional gravity driven viscous flows in a bounded domain, Adv. Math., 264 (2014) 831--863], Jiang et.al. investigated the instability of Rayleigh--Taylor steady-state of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Fei Jiang

Variable density flows occur in a variety of different systems with a wide range of scales, from astrophysics to atmospheric flows to inertial confinement fusion or reacting flows. Given the inherent limitations of RANS simulations, it is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-01 Jan Felix Heyse , Zhu Huang , Gianluca Iaccarino

We investigate the linear evolution of Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability in the framework of an ideal two-fluid plasma model. The two-fluid plasma equations of motion are separated into a base state and a set of linearized equations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Yuan Li , Abeer Bakhsh , Ravi Samtaney

We study the existence of unstable classical solutions of the Rayleigh--Taylor instability problem (abbr. RT problem) of an inhomogeneous incompressible viscous fluid in a bounded domain. We find that, by using an existence theory of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Fei Jiang , Youyi Zhao

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 report a high-resolution numerical study of two-dimensional (2D) miscible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) incompressible turbulence with the Boussinesq approximation. An ensemble of 100 independent realizations were performed at small Atwood number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Quan Zhou

The effects of different initial density distributions on the evolution of buoyancy-driven homogeneous variable-density turbulence (HVDT) at low (0.05) and high (0.75) Atwood numbers are studied by using high-resolution direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-06 Denis Aslangil , Daniel Livescu , Arindam Banerjee

Rayleigh--Taylor fluid turbulence through a bed of rigid, finite-size, spheres is investigated by means of high-resolution Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), fully coupling the fluid and the solid phase via a state-of-the art Immersed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-05 G. Sardina , L. Brandt , G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino

In this paper, the coupled Rayleigh-Taylor-Kelvin-Helmholtz instability(RTI, KHI and RTKHI, respectively) system is investigated using a multiple-relaxation-time discrete Boltzmann model. Both the morphological boundary length and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-24 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Yudong Zhang , Qingkai Zeng

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

Traditional mathematical models of Hele--Shaw flow consider the injection (or withdrawal) of an air bubble into (or from) an infinite body of viscous fluid. The most commonly studied feature of such a model is how the Saffman-Taylor…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-19 Liam C. Morrow , Nicolas De Cock , Scott W. McCue

We use a lattice gas cellular automata model in the presence of random dynamic scattering sites and quenched disorder in the two-phase immiscible model with the aim of producing an interface dynamics similar to that observed in Hele-Shaw…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-06 R. M. Azevedo , R. R. Montenegro-Filho , M. D. Coutinho-Filho

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable flames are a key component of Type Ia and Iax supernovae explosions, but their complex hydrodynamics is still not well understood. These flames are affected not only by the RT instability, but also by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 E P Hicks