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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

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

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

Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities (RTI) play an important role in the evolution of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) processes, while analytical prediction of the RTI growth rate often fails to reach an agreement with the experimental and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Y. Guo , D. Wu , J. Zhang

The acceleration of dense targets driven by the radiation pressure of high-intensity lasers leads to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) with rippling of the interaction surface. Using a simple model it is shown that the self-consistent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrea Sgattoni , Stefano Sinigardi , Luca Fedeli , Francesco Pegoraro , Andrea Macchi

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

We study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at a prominence-corona transition region in a non-linear regime. Our aim is to understand how the presence of neutral atoms in the prominence plasma influences the instability growth rate, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 E. Khomenko , A. Diaz , A. de Vicente , M. Collados , M. Luna

In this paper, we present an analytic solution for pulse wave propagation in a flexible arterial model with tapering, physiological boundary conditions and variable wall properties (wall elasticity and thickness). The change of wall…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-20 Peishuo Wu , Chi Zhu

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

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability commonly arises in compressible systems with time-dependent acceleration in practical applications. To capture the complex dynamics of such systems, a two-component discrete Boltzmann method is developed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Hao Xu , Hailong Liu , Demei Li , Bailing Chen

The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) in compressible flow with inter-molecular interactions is probed via the Discrete Boltzmann Method (DBM). The effects of interfacial tension, viscosity and heat conduction are investigated. It is found…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-19 Jie Chen , Aiguo Xu , Dawei Chen , Yudong Zhang , Zhihua Chen

Nonlinear evolutions of two-dimensional single-mode compressible Rayleigh--Taylor instability (RTI) with isothermal stratification are investigated in cylindrical geometry via direct numerical simulation for different Atwood numbers…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-04 Ming Yuan , Zhiye Zhao , Luoqin Liu , Pei Wang , Nan-Sheng Liu , Xi-Yun Lu

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

We study the modification of the classical criterion for the linear onset and growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in a partially ionized (PI) plasma in the one-fluid description, considering a generalized induction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. J. Diaz , E. Khomenko , M. Collados

Rayleigh-Taylor-instability(RTI) induced flow and mixing are of great importance in both nature and engineering scenarios. To capture the underpinning physics, tracers are introduced to make a supplement to discrete Boltzmann simulation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-24 Ge Zhang , Aiguo Xu , Dejia Zhang , Yingjun Li , Huilin Lai , Xiaomian Hu

The single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability (smRTI) is well defined, poorly understood, and applicable to many fluid flows directly and through its relationship to multi-mode Rayleigh-Taylor models. This study reproduces three low-Atwood…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-07 Maxwell Hutchinson

Two-dimensional single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) is simulated using an accurate and robust front-tracking/ghost-fluid method (FT/GFM) with high-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme. We compare our numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-01 James Burton , Tulin Kaman

The distribution functions of field fluctuations of the turbulent mixing layer produced by a Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) have long been hypothesized to involve bimodal effects. The present work reviews existing quantitative and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-26 R. Watteaux , J. A. Redford , A. Llor

Three-dimensional miscible Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) turbulence at small Atwood number and at Prandtl number one is investigated by means of high resolution direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations. RT turbulence is a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , L. Vozella

Influence of quantum effects on the internal waves and the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in plasma is investigated. It is shown that quantum pressure always stabilizes the RT instability. The problem is solved both in the limit of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaly Bychkov , Mattias Marklund , Mikhail Modestov
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