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The dynamics of a thin liquid film on the underside of a curved cylindrical substrate is studied. The evolution of the liquid layer is investigated as the film thickness and the radius of curvature of the substrate are varied. A…

Fluid instabilities like Rayleigh-Taylor,Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability can occur in a wide range of physical phenomenon from astrophysical context to Inertial Confinement Fusion(ICF).Using Layzer's potential flow model,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Manoranjan Khan , Labakanta Mandal , Rahul Banerjee , Sourav Roy , M. R. Gupta

The dynamics of Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence convection in presence of an alternating, time periodic acceleration is studied by means of extensive direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations. Within this framework, we discover a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 G. Boffetta , M. Magnani , S. Musacchio

The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) under multi-mode perturbation in compressible flow is probed via the Discrete Boltzmann Modeling (DBM) with tracers. The distribution of tracers provides clear boundaries between light and heavy fluids…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-28 Hanwei Li , Aiguo Xu , Ge Zhang , Yiming Shan

In this paper, we investigate the Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid flows rotating with an constant angular velocity, and evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Ran Duan , Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

We study phase-separating fluid mixtures as they demix in the presence of chemical reactions that maintain them away from thermodynamic equilibrium. We show that in such chemically active emulsions the interplay of chemical reactions, phase…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-22 Charu Datt , Jonathan Bauermann , Nazmi Burak Budanur , Frank Jülicher

We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of turbulent shear flows, with and without rotation, in the context of a simple but physically motivated closure of the equation governing the evolution of the Reynolds stress tensor. We show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pascale Garaud , Gordon I. Ogilvie

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

The Rayleigh-Plateau instability occurs when surface tension makes a fluid column become unstable to small perturbations. At nanometer scales, thermal fluctuations are comparable to surface energy densities. Consequently, at these scales,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Bryn Barker , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia

We analyse the process of convective mixing in two-dimensional, homogeneous and isotropic porous media with dispersion. We considered a Rayleigh-Taylor instability in which the presence of a solute produces density differences driving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-08 Marco De Paoli , Guru Sreevanshu Yerragolam , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) occurs at the interface of two media when the heavier fluid is accelerated into the lighter fluid and is a prototypical hydrodynamic event present in many physical events. In high energy physics, this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-03 Prasannabalaji Sundaram , Aditi Sengupta , Tapan K. Sengupta

The Rayleigh--Taylor instability which is responsible for the occurrence of narrow upward jets are studied in the scope of the nonhydrostatic model with horizontally--nonuniform density and the Newtonian cooling. As analysis shows, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-02 V. P. Goncharov , V. I. Pavlov

The onset of the Rayleigh-Benard instability in a horizontal fluid layer is investigated by assuming the fluid as a binary mixture and the concentration buoyancy as the driving force. The focus of this study is on the anomalous diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-18 A. Barletta , B. Straughan

This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of two immiscible and incompressible fluids in a cylindrical domain, which are separated by a sharp interface. In case that the heavy fluid is situated on top of the light fluid, one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Mathias Wilke

We revisit the canonical Rayleigh-Taylor instability and investigate the case of a thin film of fluid upon the underside of an inclined plane. The presence of a natural flow along the plane competes with the conventional droplet forming…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 P. -T Brun , Adam Damiano , Pierre Rieu , Gioele Balestra , François Gallaire

For years, astrophysicists, plasma fusion and fluid physicists have puzzled over Rayleigh-Taylor turbulent mixing layers. In particular, strong discrepancies in the growth rates have been observed between experiments and numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Olivier Poujade , Mathieu Peybernes

Instabilities in thermodynamic systems are often undesirable, as they can lead to loss of control or even catastrophic behavior. Yet, the same mechanisms can also generate rich nonequilibrium behavior and may play a constructive role in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-08 Aaron Beyen , Francesco Casini , Christian Maes

The origin of large and small particle axial bands in long rotating tumblers is a long-standing question. Using DEM simulations, we show that this axial segregation is due to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability which is characterized by the fact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Umberto d'Ortona , Richard Lueptow , Nathalie Thomas

A concise review is given of astrophysically motivated experimental and theoretical research on Taylor-Couette flow. The flows of interest rotate differentially with inner cylinder faster than outer one but are linearly stable against…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 H. Ji , J. Goodman

In Rayleigh-Benard convection and Taylor-Couette flow cellular patterns emerge at the onset of instability and persist as large-scale coherent structures in the turbulent regime. Their long-term dynamics has been thoroughly characterised…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-26 Daniel Feldmann , Marc Avila