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Fingering instabilities akin to the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in fluids have been observed in a binary granular system consisting of dense and small particles layered on top of lighter and larger particles, when the system is…

We study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) of electrostatic plane wave perturbations in compressible relativistic magnetoplasma fluids with thermal ions under gravity in three different cases of when (i) electrons are in isothermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 R. Dey , A. P. Misra

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 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

The effects of velocity shear on the unstable modes driven by the effective gravity (Rayleigh-Taylor and interchange) and resistive drift wave instabilities for inhomogeneous equilibrium fluid/plasma density are analyzed for the localized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yanzeng Zhang , S. I. Krasheninnikov , A. I. Smolyakov

The two-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability(RMI) system and the coexisting system combined with Rayleigh-Taylor Instability(RTI) are simulated with a multiple-relaxation time discrete Boltzmann model. It is found that, for the RMI…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-14 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang

We report a novel measurement of the late time self-similar growth constant $\alpha_B$ of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) from controlled initial perturbations. To this end, we have developed a laser-driven experiment, fielded on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-14 A. Shimony , C. M. Huntington , K. A. Flippo , Y. Elbaz , S. A. MacLaren , D. Shvarts , G. Malamud

We develop a weakly nonlinear, multi-mode theory for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) on a time-varying spherical interface, fully incorporating mode couplings and the Bell-Plesset (BP) effects arising from interface convergence. Our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Xilai Li , Yilin Wu , Zhengnuo Chen , Mengqi Yang , Jie Zhang

This work focuses on the interfacial dynamics with interfacial mass flux in the presence of acceleration and surface tension. We employ the general matrix method to find the fundamental solutions for the linearized boundary value problem…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-07 D. V. Ilyin , S. I. Abarzhi

Early studies on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) primarily relied on the Navier-Stokes (NS) model. As research progresses, it becomes increasingly evident that the kinetic information that the NS model failed to capture is of great value…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-04 Jie Chen , Aiguo Xu , Yudong Zhang , Dawei Chen , Zhihua Chen

The effects of compressibility on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) are investigated by inspecting the interplay between thermodynamic and hydrodynamic non-equilibrium phenomena (TNE, HNE, respectively) via a discrete Boltzmann model (DBM).…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-26 Huilin Lai , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yanbiao Gan , Yangjun Ying , Sauro Succi

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

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is a key process in many fields of Physics ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. It is usually analyzed deriving the linearized fluid equations, but the physics behind the instability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A Bret

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

The Rayleigh--Taylor instability (RTI) is an ubiquitous phenomenon that occurs in inertial-confinement-fusion (ICF) implosions and is recognized as an important limiting factor of ICF performance. To analytically understand the RTI dynamics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 D. E. Ruiz

The magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability (MRTI) governs plasma mixing and transport in a wide range of astrophysical and laboratory systems. Owing to computational constraints, MRTI is often studied using two-dimensional (2D) simulations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-03 Manohar Teja Kalluri , Andrew Hillier

It is shown how the variable density model (VDM) that governs the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) for the miscible mixing of two incompressible fluids can be transformed into a diffusive version of the inhomogeneous, incompressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-03 John D. Gibbon

We study Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at the coronal-prominence boundary by means of 2.5D numerical simulations in a single-fluid MHD approach including a generalized Ohm's law. The initial configuration includes a homogeneous magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Khomenko , A. Diaz , A. de Vicente , M. Collados , M. Luna

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

The onset of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied a compressible Brownian Yukawa fluid mixture on the ``molecular'' length and time scales of the individual particles. As a model, a two-dimensional phase-separated symmetric binary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Wysocki , H. Löwen