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The Rayleigh capillary instability of a cylindrical interface between two immiscible fluids is one of the most fundamental in fluid dynamics. As Plateau observed from energetic considerations and Rayleigh clarified through hydrodynamics,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas R. Powers , Dengfu Zhang , Raymond E. Goldstein , Howard A. Stone

In this paper, we are interested in the nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for the gravity-driven incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier-slip boundary conditions around a smooth increasing density profile $\rho_0(x_2)$ in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Tien-Tai Nguyen

We investigate the stabilizing effects of the magnetic fields in the linearized magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) problem of a nonhomogeneous incompressible viscous magnetohydrodynamic fluid of zero resistivity in the presence of a uniform…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) arises at the interface between two fluids of different densities, notably when a heavier fluid lies above a lighter one in an effective gravitational field. In astrophysical systems with high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-05 Qiqi Jiang , Guang-Xing Li , Chandra B. Singh

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

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

We here present two simplified models aimed at describing the long-term, irregular behaviours observed in the rheological response of certain complex fluids, such as periodic oscillations or chaotic-like variations. Both models exploit the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Aradian , M. E. Cates

We investigate the miscible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in both 2 and 3 dimensions using direct numerical simulations, where the working fluid is assumed incompressible under the Boussinesq approximation. We first consider the case of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Y. Young , H. Tufo , A. Dubey , R. Rosner

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

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a magnetic fluid superimposed on a non-magnetic liquid of lower density may be suppressed with the help of a spatially homogeneous magnetic field rotating in the plane of the undisturbed interface.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Rannacher , A. Engel

Long-time and large-data existence of weak solutions for initial- and boundary-value problems concerning three-dimensional flows of \emph{incompressible} fluids is nowadays available not only for Navier--Stokes fluids but also for various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Miroslav Bulíček , Josef Málek , Erika Maringová

At the superfluid-solid 4He interface there exist crystallization waves having much in common with gravitational-capillary waves at the interface between two normal fluids. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is an instability of the interface…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 S. N. Burmistrov , L. B. Dubovskii , V. L. Tsymbalenko

A compactness framework is formulated for the incompressible limit of approximate solutions with weak uniform bounds with respect to the adiabatic exponent for the steady Euler equations for compressible fluids in any dimension. One of our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Feimin Huang , Tian-Yi Wang , Wei Xiang

Linear stability of solid body rotating flows with axisymmetric density variations is addressed analytically. Considering inviscid disturbances, a non trivial dispersion relation is obtained and it is shown that the instability is of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-24 C. Jacques , B. Di Pierro , F. Alizard , M. Buffat , A. Cadiou , L. Le Penven

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

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 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

Whether singularities can form in fluids remains a foundational unanswered question in mathematics. This phenomenon occurs when solutions to governing equations, such as the 3D Euler equations, develop infinite gradients from smooth initial…

We report on two- and three-dimensional numerical simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in immiscible fluids. A diffuse-interface model that combines the Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution of the volume fraction of one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-05 Raphael Zanella , György Tegze , Romain LeTellier , Hervé Henry

Fluids can behave in a highly irregular, turbulent way. It has long been realised that, therefore, some weak notion of solution is required when studying the fundamental partial differential equations of fluid dynamics, such as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Dennis Gallenmüller , Raphael Wagner , Emil Wiedemann