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We have developed a theoretical analysis to systematically study the late-time evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a finite-sized spatial domain. The nonlinear dynamics of fluids with similar and contrasting densities are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-16 Annie Naveh , Miccal T. Matthews , Snezhana I. Abarzhi

We analyse a model for thermal convection in a class of generalized Navier-Stokes equations containing fourth order spatial derivatives of the velocity and of the temperature. The work generalises the isothermal model of A. Musesti. We…

The potential flow of an incompressible inviscid heavy fluid over a light one is considered. The integral version of the method of matched asymptotic expansion is applied to the construction of the solution over long intervals of time. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 V. M. Cherniavski , Yu. M. Shtemler

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

Solid state convection can take place in the rocky or icy mantles of planetary objects and these mantles can be surrounded above or below or both by molten layers of similar composition. A flow toward the interface can proceed through it by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Stéphane Labrosse , Adrien Morison , Renaud Deguen , Thierry Alboussière

This work is devoted to the theoretical study of the stability of two superposed horizontal liquid layers bounded by two solid planes and subjected to a horizontal temperature gradient. The liquids are supposed to be immiscible with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. Madruga , C. Perez-Garcia , G. Lebon

A parametric instability of an incompressible, viscous, and Boussinesq fluid layer bounded between two parallel planes is investigated numerically. The layer is assumed to be inclined at an angle with horizontal. The planes bounding the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-01 Jitender Singh

It is still an open problem whether the inhibition phenomenon of Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability by horizontal magnetic field can be mathematically proved in a non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Youyi Zhao

It is shown how the variable density model (VDM) that governs the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) for the miscible mixing of two incompressible fluids can be transformed into a diffusive version of the inhomogeneous, incompressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-03 John D. Gibbon

A number of applications utilise the energy focussing potential of imploding shells to dynamically compress matter or magnetic fields, including magnetised target fusion schemes. This paper examines the effect of fluid rotation on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-29 Justin Huneault , David Plant , Andrew Higgins

Weakly-rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection was studied experimentally and numerically. With increasing rotation and large enough Rayleigh number an abrupt transition from a turbulent state with nearly rotation-independent heat…

We study the turbulent evolution originated from a system subjected to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a double density at high resolution in a 2 dimensional geometry using a highly optimized thermal Lattice Boltzmann code for GPUs. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Ripesi , L. Biferale , S. F. Schifano , R. Tripiccione

We have carried out extensive equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the structure and the interfacial properties in the liquid-vapor (LV) phase coexistence of partially miscible binary Lennard-Jones (LJ) mixtures. By…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Enrique Díaz-Herrera , José A. Moreno-Razo , Guillermo Ramírez-Santiago

The mean momentum and heavy mass fraction, turbulent kinetic energy, and heavy mass fraction variance fields, as well as the budgets of their transport equations, are examined at several times during the evolution of a narrowband…

We discuss spatio-temporal pattern formation in two separate thermal convective systems. In the first system, hydrothermal waves (HTW) are modeled numerically in an annular channel. A temperature difference is imposed across the channel,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-20 Atanu Chatterjee , Takahiko Ban , Atsushi Onizuka , Germano Iannacchione

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is a key process in many fields of Physics ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. It is usually analyzed deriving the linearized fluid equations, but the physics behind the instability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A Bret

We reconsider the radial Saffman-Taylor instability, when a fluid injected from a point source displaces another fluid with a higher viscosity in a Hele-Shaw cell, where the fluids are confined between two neighboring flat plates. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-09 Mathias Nagel , François Gallaire

In this work, we investigate the presence and impact of stable eigenmodes in Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection that arises due to a temperature gradient within a fluid system. The nonlinear evolution of the canonical convection system is cast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-29 Zachary R. Williams , Ava G. Lowe

A Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable flame is a thin burning interface sandwiched between heavy fuel and light ash layers. RT unstable flames play an important role in complex systems like novel aviation turbine engines, storage facilities for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Elizabeth P. Hicks

The main objective of this and its accompanying articles is to derive a mathematical theory associated with the thermohaline circulations (THC). This article provides a general transition and stability theory for the Boussinesq system,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tian Ma , Shouhong Wang