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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 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

In this paper, the coupled Rayleigh-Taylor-Kelvin-Helmholtz instability(RTI, KHI and RTKHI, respectively) system is investigated using a multiple-relaxation-time discrete Boltzmann model. Both the morphological boundary length and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-24 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Yudong Zhang , Qingkai Zeng

The Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability develops and leads to turbulence when a heavy fluid falls under the action of gravity through a light one. We consider this phenomenon accompanied by a reactive transformation between the fluids, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Chertkov , V. Lebedev , N. Vladimirova

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 present study explores the onset of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) and Kelvin-Helmholtz Rayleigh-Taylor instability (KHRTI) with highly-resolved direct numerical simulations of two setups which consider air at different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-13 Bhavna Joshi , Aditi Sengupta , Yassin Ajanif , Lucas Lestandi

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

Dry granular material flowing on rough inclines can experience a self-induced Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability followed by the spontaneous emergence of convection cells. For this to happen, particles are different in size and density, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-06 Umberto d'Ortona , Nathalie Thomas

The acceleration of dense targets driven by the radiation pressure of high-intensity lasers leads to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) with rippling of the interaction surface. Using a simple model it is shown that the self-consistent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrea Sgattoni , Stefano Sinigardi , Luca Fedeli , Francesco Pegoraro , Andrea Macchi

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 study numerically and theoretically the gravity-driven flow of a viscous liquid film coating the inner side of a horizontal cylindrical tube and surrounding a shear-free dynamically inert gaseous core. The liquid-gas interface is prone…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-22 Shahab Eghbali , Yves-Marie Ducimetiere , Edouard Boujo , Francois Gallaire

We study the two-phase, horizontally periodic, quasistationary Stokes flow in two dimensions driven by surface tension and gravity effects in the general context of fluids with (possibly) different viscosities and densities. The sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Daniel Böhme , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability occurs in a variety of scenario as a consequence of fluids of different densities pushing against the density gradient. For example, it is expected to occur in the ion acceleration of solid density targets…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Z. Liu , M. K. Zhao , P. L. Bai , X. J. Yang , R. Qi , Y. Xu , J. W. Wang , Y. X. Leng , J. H. Bin , R. X. Li

We consider a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in a quasi-one-dimensional harmonic trap, where the immiscible components are pressed against each other by an external magnetic force. The zero-temperature non-stationary…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Kobyakov , A. Bezett , E. Lundh , M. Marklund , V. Bychkov

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

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

We develop a weakly nonlinear, multi-mode theory for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) on a time-varying spherical interface, fully incorporating mode couplings and the Bell-Plesset (BP) effects arising from interface convergence. Our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Xilai Li , Yilin Wu , Zhengnuo Chen , Mengqi Yang , Jie Zhang

We report on results of high resolution two fluid non-linear simulations of the Rayleigh Taylor Instability (RTI) at the interface between a solar prominence and the corona. These follow results reported earlier by Popescu Braileanu et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko

We study the existence of unstable classical solutions of the Rayleigh--Taylor instability problem (abbr. RT problem) of an inhomogeneous incompressible viscous fluid in a bounded domain. We find that, by using an existence theory of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Fei Jiang , Youyi Zhao

We examine the generation and subsequent evolution of Rayleigh Taylor instability in anisotropic binary Bose-Einstein condensates. Considering a pancake-shaped geometry, to initiate the instability we tune the intraspecies interaction and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-02 Arko Roy , S. Gautam , D. Angom