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The thin-shell instability has been named as one process, which can generate entangled structures in astrophysical plasma on collisional (fluid) scales. It is driven by a spatially varying imbalance between the ram pressure of the inflowing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 M. E. Dieckmann , H. Ahmed , D. Doria , G. Sarri , R. Walder , D. Folini , A. Bret , A. Ynnerman , M. Borghesi

FEARLESS (Fluid mEchanics with Adaptively Refined Large Eddy SimulationS) is a numerical scheme for modelling subgrid-scale turbulence in cosmological adaptive mesh refinement simulations. In this contribution, the main features of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-18 L. Iapichino , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Merklein

This paper proposes an end-to-end convolutional selective autoencoder approach for early detection of combustion instabilities using rapidly arriving flame image frames. The instabilities arising in combustion processes cause significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Adedotun Akintayo , Kin Gwn Lore , Soumalya Sarkar , Soumik Sarkar

We use the machinery usually employed for studying the onset of Rayleigh--B\'enard convection in hydro- and magnetohydro-dynamic settings to address the onset of convection induced by the magnetothermal instability and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-01 Himanshu Gupta , Shailendra K. Rathor , Martin E. Pessah , Sagar Chakraborty

We describe our modelling of the radiatively cooling shocks and their thin shells with various numerical tools in different physical and calculational setups. We inspect structure of the dense shell, its formation and evolution, pointing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-05 D. A. Badjin , S. I. Glazyrin , K. V. Manukovskiy , S. I. Blinnikov

A new rotational flamelet model with inward swirling flow through a stretched vortex tube is developed for sub-grid modeling to be coupled with the resolved flow for turbulent combustion. The model has critical new features compared to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-23 William A. Sirignano

We numerically investigate turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection within two immiscible fluid layers, aiming to understand how the layer thickness and fluid properties affect the heat transfer (characterized by the Nusselt number $Nu$) in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Hao-Ran Liu , Kai Leong Chong , Rui Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

We consider the free boundary problem for two layers of immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluid in a uniform gravitational field, lying above a rigid bottom in a three-dimensional horizontally periodic setting. The effect of surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Yanjin Wang , Ian Tice

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

This work extends the front propagation formulation (FPF) combustion model to large eddy simulation (LES) of swirl-stabilized turbulent premixed flames and investigates the effects of resolved flame thickness on the predicted flame…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-26 Ruochen Guo , Yunde Su , Yuewen Jiang

Thermally bistable fluid tends to self-organize into clouds of hot and cold material, which are internally uniform and separated by thin conduction fronts. The evolution of these clouds has been studied for isobaric systems, but when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Henry Fetsch , Nathaniel J. Fisch

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

Clouds are expected to form in a wide range of conditions in the atmosphere of exoplanets given the large range of possible condensible species. However this diversity might lead to very different small-scale dynamics depending on radiative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 P. Tremblin , H. Bloch , M. González , E. Audit , S. Fromang , T. Padioleau , P. Kestener , S. Kokh

Multidimensional numerical simulations of a homogeneous, chemically reactive gas were used to study ignition, flame stability, and deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) in a supersonic combustor. The configuration studied was a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-15 Gabriel B. Goodwin , Elaine S. Oran

Quiescent solar prominences show distinct small-scale dynamics in observations. Their internal density contrasts with the surrounding corona make them susceptible to Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities, leading to vertically structured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Madhurjya Changmai , Jack M. Jenkins , Rony Keppens

We first develop a new mathematical model for two-fluid interface motion, subjected to the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in two-dimensional fluid flow, which in its simplest form, is given by $ h_{tt}(\alpha,t) = A g\, \Lambda h -…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Steve Shkoller

This paper investigates the well-posedness and Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability for a system of two-dimensional nonhomogeneous incompressible fluid, subject to the non-slip and Naiver-slip boundary conditions at the outer and inner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Liang Li , Quan Wang

We note that in a system far from equilibrium the interface roughening may depend on the system size which plays the role of control parameter. To detect the size effect on the interface roughness, we study the scaling properties of rough…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander S. Balankin , Daniel Morales Matamoros

Deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) can occur in environments ranging from experimental and industrial systems to astrophysical thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae explosions. Substantial progress has been made in explaining the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-01 Alexei Y. Poludnenko , Thomas A. Gardiner , Elaine S. Oran

The origin of large and small particle axial bands in long rotating tumblers is a long-standing question. Using DEM simulations, we show that this axial segregation is due to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability which is characterized by the fact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-16 Umberto d'Ortona , Richard Lueptow , Nathalie Thomas