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This paper investigates the well-posedness and Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability for a system of two-dimensional nonhomogeneous incompressible fluid, subject to the non-slip and Naiver-slip boundary conditions at the outer and inner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Liang Li , Quan Wang

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

Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) as a multi-scale, strongly nonlinear physical phenomenon which plays an important role in the engineering applications and scientific research. In this paper, the mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann method is used…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-14 Bin Liu , Chunhua Zhang , Qin Lou , Hong Liang

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

This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of two immiscible and incompressible fluids in a cylindrical domain, which are separated by a sharp interface. In case that the heavy fluid is situated on top of the light fluid, one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Mathias Wilke

The nonlinear evolution of two fluid interfacial structures like bubbles and spikes arising due to the combined action of Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability or due to that of Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 M. R. Gupta , Labakanta Mandal , Sourav Roy , Rahul Banerjee , Manoranjan Khan

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

We investigated the Rayleigh-Plateau instability at the interface between two immiscible liquids of equal viscosity using molecular dynamics simulations. Two types of initial conditions were considered, one with an imposed single-mode…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-02 Shunta Kikuchi , Hiroshi Watanabe

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

We assess experimentally the scaling laws that characterize the mixing region produced by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a confined porous medium. In particular, we wish to assess experimentally the existence of a superlinear scaling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-02 Marco De Paoli , Diego Perissutti , Cristian Marchioli , Alfredo Soldati

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

This study examines the stability of a flexible material interface between two fluids of the same viscosity in interaction with a free surface. When the layers are motionless, we provide evidence for the onset of a novel instability by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-05 Joris Labarbe

We report a high-resolution numerical study of two-dimensional (2D) miscible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) incompressible turbulence with the Boussinesq approximation. An ensemble of 100 independent realizations were performed at small Atwood number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Quan Zhou

This study explores heat and turbulent modulation in three-dimensional multiphase Rayleigh-B\'enard convection using direct numerical simulations. Two immiscible fluids with identical reference density undergo systematic variations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-26 Abbas Moradi Bilondi , Nicolò Scapin , Luca Brandt , Parisa Mirbod

We study the stability of two-fluid flow through a plane channel at Reynolds numbers of a hundred to a thousand in the linear and nonlinear regimes. The two fluids have the same density but different viscosities. The fluids, when miscible,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kirti Chandra Sahu , Rama Govindarajan

Based on mesoscale lattice Boltzmann numerical simulations, we characterize the Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convective dynamics of dispersions of liquid droplets in another liquid phase. Our numerical methodology allows us to modify the…

We investigate theoretically the nonlinear state of ideal straight rolls in the Rayleigh-B\'enard system of a fluid layer heated from below with a porous medium using a Galerkin method. Applying the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation, binary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rudolf Umla , Matthias Augustin , Bjoern Huke , Manfred Luecke

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

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of two layers of immiscible, inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational fluids through a full nonlinear system. Our goal is to establish a virial theorem and prove the polynomial growth of slope and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Haocheng Yang

Instabilities, where small fluctuations seed the formation of large-scale structures, govern dynamics in a variety of fluid systems. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI), present from tabletop to astronomical scales, is an iconic example…