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This work examines the effect of the embedded magnetic field strength on the non-linear development of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) (with a field-aligned interface) in an ideal gas close to the incompressible limit in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jack Carlyle , Andrew Hillier

The effect of rotation on the classical gravity-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability has been shown to influence the scale of the perturbations that develop at the unstable interface and consequently alter the speed of propagation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 M. M. Scase , R. J. A. Hill

In this work, we explore the dynamical impacts and observable signatures of two-fluid effects in the parameter regimes when ion-neutral collisions do not fully couple the neutral and charged fluids. The purpose of this study is to deepen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko , A. de Vicente

Both the dynamics and the observational properties of relativistic jets are determined by their interaction with the ambient medium. A crucial role is played by the contact discontinuity at the jet boundary, which in the presence of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Pavel Abolmasov , Omer Bromberg

We present a study of a two-point spectral turbulence model (Local Wave-Number model or LWN model) for the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability. The model outcomes are compared with statistical quantities extracted from three-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-25 Nairita Pal , Ismael Boureima , Noah Braun , Susan Kurien , Praveen Ramaprabhu , Andrew Lawrie

Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities (RTI) play an important role in the evolution of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) processes, while analytical prediction of the RTI growth rate often fails to reach an agreement with the experimental and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Y. Guo , D. Wu , J. Zhang

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

The magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability (mRTI) is a key process in inertial confinement fusion and is thought to be widespread in the interstellar medium, where it can concentrate plasma into discrete structures. We present resistive MHD…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-25 Xin Bian , Riccardo Betti , Dongxiao Zhao , Hussein Aluie

We perform a non-linear analysis of a fluid-fluid wavy-stratified flow using a simplified two-fluid model, i.e., the fixed-flux model (FFM) which is an adaptation of shallow water theory for the two-layer problem. Linear analysis using the…

Three-dimensional miscible Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) turbulence at small Atwood number and at Prandtl number one is investigated by means of high resolution direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations. RT turbulence is a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , L. Vozella

We present long-term three-dimensional (3D) simulations of Type-IIP supernovae (SNe) for 13 non-rotating, single-star, red-supergiant (RSG) progenitors with zero-age-main-sequence masses between 12.5 M$_{\odot}$ and 27.3 M$_{\odot}$. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Beatrice Giudici , Michael Gabler , Hans-Thomas Janka

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-Taylor (RT) instability affects a vast range of High Energy Density (HED) length scales, spanning from supernova explosions (10$^{13}$ m) to inertial confinement fusion (10$^{-6}$ m). In inertial confinement fusion, the RT…

We report two-dimensional particle image velocimetry experiments in high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers imposed with a moderately strong streamwise pressure gradient. The unique aspect of these data are the highly resolved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-17 Ivan Marusic , Wagih Abu Rowin , Mitchell Lozier , Luka Lindić , Ahmad Zarei , Rahul Deshpande

We study the 3D topology of Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) single-modes, which includes bubbles, jets and saddle points. We present an analytic description of the interface as a whole, for arbitrary time-dependant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. A. Inogamov , M. Tricottet , A. M. Oparin , S. Bouquet

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

Layzer's approximation method for investigation of two fluid interface structures associated with Rayleigh Taylor instability for arbitrary Atwood number is extended with the inclusion of second harmonic mode leaving out the zeroth harmonic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 M. R. Gupta , Rahul Banerjee , Labakanta Mandal , S. Roy , Manoranjan Khan

The dynamics of turbulent mixing induced by Rayleigh-Taylor instability are heavily dependent on the acceleration experienced by the fluids and the frequency content of the initial interface between them. Both are readily controllable in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-17 J. T. Horne-Jones , D. J. Glinnan , A. G. W. Lawrie , R. J. R. Williams

This study aims to examine the spatial evolution of the geometrical features of the turbulent/turbulent interface (TTI) in a cylinder wake. The wake is exposed to various turbulent backgrounds in which the turbulence intensity and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-11 Jiangang Chen , Oliver R. H. Buxton

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