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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

This study explores non-linear development of the magnetized Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in a prominence-corona transition region. Using a two-fluid model of a partially ionized plasma, we compare RTI simulations for several different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko , B. Popescu Braileanu

The effect of rotation on the classical gravity-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability has been shown to influence the scale of the perturbations that develop at the unstable interface and consequently alter the speed of propagation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 M. M. Scase , R. J. A. Hill

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 multicomponent lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for the 2D Rayleigh--Taylor turbulence with a Shan-Chen pseudopotential implemented on GPUs. In the immiscible case this method is able to accurately overcome the inherent numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-13 Hugo S. Tavares , Luca Biferale , Mauro Sbragaglia , Alexei A. Mailybaev

The present study explores the onset of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) and Kelvin-Helmholtz Rayleigh-Taylor instability (KHRTI) with highly-resolved direct numerical simulations of two setups which consider air at different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-13 Bhavna Joshi , Aditi Sengupta , Yassin Ajanif , Lucas Lestandi

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) refers to the baroclinic generation of vorticity at a perturbed density interface when impacted by a shock wave. It is often thought of as the impulsive limit of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Manuel Lombardini , Ralf Deiterding

The mean momentum and heavy mass fraction, turbulent kinetic energy, and heavy mass fraction variance fields, as well as the budgets of their transport equations, are examined at several times during the evolution of a narrowband…

The Rayleigh--Taylor instability of two immiscible fluids in the limit of small Atwood numbers is studied by means of a phase-field description. In this method the sharp fluid interface is replaced by a thin, yet finite, transition layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio Celani , Andrea Mazzino , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Lara Vozella

The late-time growth of single-mode immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor instability is investigated over a comprehensive range of the Reynolds numbers ($1\leq Re \leq 10000$) and Atwood numbers $(0.05 \leq A \leq 0.7)$ using an improved lattice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Haowei Huang , Zhenhua Xia , Hong Liang , Yajing Zong , Jiangrong Xu

The Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability plays an important role in various natural and engineering fields, such as inertial confinement fusion. In this work, the effect of relaxation time on the RM instability under reshock impact is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-19 Lingyan Lian , Chuandong Lin , Demei Li , Huilin Lai

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

The linear growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at ionization fronts is investigated via perturbation analysis in the limit of incompressible fluids. In agreement with previous numerical studies is found that absorption of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Massimo Ricotti

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

Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability (MRTI) governs material transport and mixing in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas under the influence of gravity and magnetic fields. While magnetic reconnection is known to occur during MRTI…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Manohar Teja Kalluri , Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow

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

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…

The two-fluid (ions and electrons) plasma Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of a cylindrical light/heavy density interface is numerically investigated without an initial magnetic field. Varying the Debye length scale, we examine the effects of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Y. Li , R. Samtaney , D. Bond , V. Wheatley

A multiple-relaxation-time discrete Boltzmann model (DBM) is proposed for multicomponent mixtures, where compressible, hydrodynamic, and thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects are taken into account. It allows the specific heat ratio and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-20 Chuandong Lin , Kai H. Luo , Aiguo Xu , Yanbiao Gan , Huilin Lai

When a liquid drop strikes a deep pool of a second liquid, an impact crater opens while the liquid of the drop decelerates and spreads on the surface of the crater. If the density of the drop is larger than the surrounding, the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-21 V. Lherm , R. Deguen , T. Alboussière , M. Landeau