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Flame instabilities play a dominant role in accelerating the burning front to a large fraction of the speed of sound in a Type Ia supernova. We present a three-dimensional numerical simulation of a Rayleigh-Taylor unstable carbon flame,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Zingale , S. E. Woosley , C. A. Rendleman , M. S. Day , J. B. Bell

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

Rippled interface between the ablator and DT ice can feedout and form the perturbation seeds for the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (ART) instability, which negatively affects direct-drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF). However, the evolution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 W. Xiong , X. H. Yang , Z. H. Chen , B. H. Xu , Z. Li , B. Zeng , G. B. Zhang , Y. Y. Ma

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

Growth of the single-fluid single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) is revisited in 2D and 3D using fully compressible high-resolution simulations. We conduct a systematic analysis of the effects of perturbation Reynolds number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-26 Xin Bian , Hussein Aluie , Dongxiao Zhao , Huasen Zhang , Daniel Livescu

We analyze an analog of the hydrodynamic Rayleigh-Taylor instability for the liquid-solid phase interface under non-uniform growth of the solid phase. The development of the instability starts on conditions of an accelerated interface…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. N. Burmistrov , L. B. Dubovskii , V. L. Tsymbalenko

We investigate the onset of the Faraday instability in a vertically vibrated wormlike micelle solution. In this strongly viscoelastic fluid, the critical acceleration and wavenumber are shown to present oscillations as a function of driving…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Pierre Ballesta , Sebastien Manneville

The convective instability in a plane liquid layer with time-dependent temperature profile is investigated by means of a general method suitable for linear stability analysis of an unsteady basic flow. The method is based on a non-normal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Doumenc , T. Boeck , B. Guerrier , M. Rossi

Auto-differentiation is a powerful tool for computing derivatives of simulation results with respect to given parameters. In this letter, we have applied this tool to investigate the instability of a dynamics system that is governed by 21…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Ji Qiang

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

The two-fluid (ions and electrons) plasma Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of a cylindrical light/heavy density interface is numerically investigated without an initial magnetic field. Varying the Debye length scale, we examine the effects of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Y. Li , R. Samtaney , D. Bond , V. Wheatley

Multiple chaotic and turbulent regimes in Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection have been studied and classified from the onset of deterministic chaos to the fully developed turbulence using the distributed chaos approach supported by results of…

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This fluid dynamics video depicts the evolution of a suspension of paramagnetic colloids under the influence of a uniform, pulsed magnetic field. At low pulse frequencies, the suspension condenses into columns which decompose via a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-24 James W. Swan , Yifei Liu , Eric M. Furst

We study with a two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation the stability of a discontinuity or piston, which separates an electron-positron cloud from a cooler electron-proton plasma. Such a piston might be present in the relativistic jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-13 M E Dieckmann , M Falk , D Folini , R Walder , P Stenedeg , I Hotz , A Ynnerman

Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection with phase changes in an extended layer between two parallel impermeable planes is studied by means of three-dimensional direct numerical simulations for Rayleigh numbers between 10^4 and 1.5\times 10^7…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-27 Thomas Weidauer , Joerg Schumacher

The early-time interface instabilities in high intensity (high Weber number and high Reynolds number) aero-breakup of a liquid drop are investigated by numerical simulations. A combined analysis based on simulation results and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-07 X. Y. Hu , N. A. Adams

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) typically arises when a dense fluid is superimposed on a lighter fluid, where the desta- bilizing gravitational force acting on miscible fluids drives chaotic mixing. We theoretically present an…

A Rayleigh B\'enard instability study using the energy conserving dissipative particle dynamics method is presented here for the first time. The simulation is performed on an ideal dissipative particle dynamics fluid in a three dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-19 Anuj Chaudhri , Jennifer R. Lukes

This article sheds light on the late-time influence of initial conditions in Boussinesq Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence using an approach combining direct numerical simulations, machine learning and theory. The initial conditions are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sébastien Thévenin , Benoît-Joseph Gréa

We study linear theory of the magnetized Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a system consisting of ions and neutrals. Both components are affected by a uniform vertical gravitational field. We consider ions and neutrals as two separate fluid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Mohsen Shadmehri , Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Mahdi Khajavi