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Isothermal compressible two-phase flows in a capillary are modeled with and without phase transition in the presence of gravity, employing Darcy's law for the velocity field. It is shown that the resulting systems are thermodynamically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

We propose a scheme to initiate and examine Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the two species Bose-Einstein condensates. We identify $^{85}$Rb-$^{87}$Rb mixture as an excellent candidate to observe it experimentally. The instability is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-01 S. Gautam , D. Angom

We consider stability of steady convective flows in a horizontal layer with stress-free boundaries, heated below and rotating about the vertical axis, in the Boussinesq approximation (the Rayleigh-Benard convection). The flows under…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 O. M. Podvigina

In this paper, we investigate the Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid flows rotating with an constant angular velocity, and evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Ran Duan , Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

The Rayleigh-Plateau instability occurs when surface tension makes a fluid column become unstable to small perturbations. At nanometer scales, thermal fluctuations are comparable to surface energy densities. Consequently, at these scales,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Bryn Barker , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia

Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in slender cylindrical cells exhibits rich dynamics of the large-scale circulation (LSC), with several rolls stacked on top of each other. We propose that the elliptical instability is the mechanism…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-05 Lukas Zwirner , Andreas Tilgner , Olga Shishkina

We consider the evolution of two incompressible fluids with homogeneous densities $\rho_-<\rho_+$ subject to gravity described by the inviscid Boussinesq equations and provide the explicit relaxation of the associated differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Björn Gebhard , József J. Kolumbán

The analysis of the Rayleigh-B\'enard instability due to the mass diffusion in a fluid-saturated horizontal porous layer is reconsidered. The standard diffusion theory based on the variance of the molecular position growing linearly in time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Antonio Barletta

We develop a general transfer-matrix formalism for determining the growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a fluid system with spatially varying density and viscosity. We use this formalism to analytically and numerically treat…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-18 Prashant Sharma

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

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

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

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 effects of compressibility on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) are investigated by inspecting the interplay between thermodynamic and hydrodynamic non-equilibrium phenomena (TNE, HNE, respectively) via a discrete Boltzmann model (DBM).…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-26 Huilin Lai , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yanbiao Gan , Yangjun Ying , Sauro Succi

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

We consider the Rayleigh-Taylor problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid, barotropic fluids evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. After constructing Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

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

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

Fluid instabilities like Rayleigh-Taylor,Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability can occur in a wide range of physical phenomenon from astrophysical context to Inertial Confinement Fusion(ICF).Using Layzer's potential flow model,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Manoranjan Khan , Labakanta Mandal , Rahul Banerjee , Sourav Roy , M. R. Gupta