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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

Both the dynamics and the observational properties of relativistic jets are determined by their interaction with the ambient medium. A crucial role is played by the contact discontinuity at the jet boundary, which in the presence of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Pavel Abolmasov , Omer Bromberg

Two-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor(RT) instability problem is simulated with a multiple-relaxation-time discrete Boltzmann model with gravity term. The viscosity, heat conductivity and Prandtl number effects are probed from the macroscopic and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-07 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang

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

Aims. We examine the interactions of various instabilities in rotating stars, which usually are considered as independent. Methods. An analytical study of the problem is performed, account is given to radiative losses, mu-gradients and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 André Maeder , Georges Meynet , Nadège Lagarde , Corinne Charbonnel

Theoretical $\Lambda$CDM cosmological models predict a much larger number of low mass dark matter haloes than has been observed in the Local Group of galaxies. One possible explanation is the increased difficulty of detecting these haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Luciana O. Ruiz , Diego Falceta-Gonçalves , Gustavo A. Lanfranchi , Anderson Caproni

In this paper the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) along the density interfaces of gravity-current fronts is analyzed. Both the location and the spanwise wavenumber of the most unstable mode determined by the local dispersion relation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-25 Chenyue Xie , Jianjun Tao , Linsen Zhang

We study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability for two miscible, incompressible, inviscid fluids. Scale-invariant estimates for the size of the mixing zone and coarsening of internal structures in the fully nonlinear regime are established…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Konstantin Kalinin , Govind Menon , Bian Wu

The Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability is omnipresent in the physics of inversely density-stratified fluids subject to effective gravitational acceleration. In astrophysics, a steep stratification of the ambient medium can fragment a bubble…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Michael Mathias Schulreich , Dieter Breitschwerdt

We studied turbulence induced by the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability for 2D immiscible two-component flows by using a multicomponent lattice Boltzmann method with a Shan-Chen pseudopotential implemented on GPUs. We compare our results with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Hugo S. Tavares , Luca Biferale , Mauro Sbragaglia , Alexei A. Mailybaev

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

Theoretical and numerical analysis of the relativistic effects on the Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability reveals new and potentially very useful effects. We find that, in contrast with the non- relativistic case, the growth rate of the RM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Mohseni , M. Mendoza , S. Succi , H. J. Herrmann

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

In this paper we investigate the influence of radiative transport on the growth of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in accretion discs. The analysis is performed by use of analytical and numerical means. We provide a general…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Flaig , R. Kissmann , W. Kley

This work focuses on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI)driven by acceleration with power-law time-dependence. We review the existing theoretical approaches, apply the group theory approach to solve this long-standing problem, and yield the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Snezhana Abarzhi , Kurt Williams

We employ hydrodynamic simulations to study the effects of high shock compression ratios, as expected for fast shocks with efficient particle acceleration, on the convective instability of driven waves in supernova remnants. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 John M. Blondin , Donald C. Ellison

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable flames are a key component of Type Ia and Iax supernovae explosions, but their complex hydrodynamics is still not well understood. These flames are affected not only by the RT instability, but also by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 E P Hicks

We perform analytic linear stability analyses of an interface separating two stratified media threaded by a radiation flux, a configuration relevant in several astrophysical contexts. We develop a general framework for analyzing such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Emmanuel Jacquet , Mark Krumholz

A discrete Boltzmann model (DBM) is proposed to probe the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in two-component compressible flows. Each species has a flexible specific heat ratio and is described by one discrete Boltzmann equation (DBE).…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-22 Chuandong Lin , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Kaihong Luo , Yingjun Li

The modulation of drag through dispersed phases in wall turbulence has been a longstanding focus. This study examines the effects of particle Stokes number ($St$) and Froude number ($Fr$) on drag modulation in turbulent Taylor-Couette (TC)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-27 Hao Jiang , Zhi-Ming Lu , Yuan Ma , Kai Leong Chong