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We establish criteria of stability and instability for the stratified compressible magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem. More precisely, if under the stability condition $\Xi <1$, we show the existence of unique solution with algebraic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

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 present time-resolved observations of Rayleigh--Taylor-instability (RTI) evolution at the interface between an unmagnetized plasma jet colliding with a stagnated, magnetized plasma. The observed instability growth time ($\sim 10$~$\mu$s)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Colin S. Adams , Auna L. Moser , Scott C. Hsu

The non-linear regime of Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in a radiation supported atmosphere, consisting of two uniform fluids with different densities, is studied numerically. We perform simulations using our recently developed numerical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-17 Yan-Fei Jiang , Shane W. Davis , James Stone

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 miscible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) fingering instability in two-dimensional homogeneous porous media, in which the fluid density varies non-monotonically as a function of the solute concentration such that the maximum density lies in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-09 Satyajit Pramanik , Manoranjan Mishra

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

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

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

Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) occurs in a range of industrial and natural processes. Whereas the vast majority of existing studies have considered constant acceleration, RTI is in most instances driven by variable acceleration. Here we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-01 Desmond L. Hill , Aklant K. Bhowmick , Snezhana I. Abarzhi

Solar prominences represent large-scale condensations suspended against gravity within the solar atmosphere. The Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability is proposed to be one of the important fundamental processes leading to the generation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Madhurjya Changmai , Jack M. Jenkins , J. -B. Durrive , Rony Keppens

The paper presents a review of dynamic stabilization mechanisms for plasma instabilities. One of the dynamic stabilization mechanisms for plasma instability was proposed in the papers [Phys. Plasmas 19, 024503(2012) and references therein],…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Kawata , T. Karino , Y. J. Gu

The onset of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied a compressible Brownian Yukawa fluid mixture on the ``molecular'' length and time scales of the individual particles. As a model, a two-dimensional phase-separated symmetric binary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Wysocki , H. Löwen

We consider the long-standing problem of Rayleigh-Taylor instability with variable acceleration, and focus on the early-time dynamics of an interface separating incompressible ideal fluids of different densities subject to an acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Des L. Hill , Aklant K. Bhowmick , Snezhana I. Abarzhi

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 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

The transverse stability of the target is crucial for obtaining high quality ion beams using the laser radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) mechanism. In this letter, a theoretical model and supporting two-dimensional (2D) Particle-in-Cell…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Y. Wan , C. -H. Pai , C. J. Zhang , F. Li , Y. P. Wu , J. F. Hua , W. Lu , Y. Q. Gu , L. O. Silva , C. Joshi , W. B. Mori

This work examines the effect of the embedded magnetic field strength on the non-linear development of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) (with a field-aligned interface) in an ideal gas close to the incompressible limit in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jack Carlyle , Andrew Hillier

Aims: In the present work we investigate the nature of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability at a density interface permeated by an oblique, homogeneous magnetic field in an incompressible limit. Methods: Using the system of linearised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 E. Vickers , I. Ballai , R. Erdélyi