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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 address the linear stability of a discontinuous surface of a relativistic flow in the context of a jet that oscillates radially as it propagates. The restoring force of the oscillation is expected to drive a Rayleigh-Taylor instability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Jin Matsumoto , Miguel A. Aloy , Manel Perucho

We investigate the effect of surface tension on the linear Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability in stratified incompressible viscous fluids with or without (interface) surface tension. The existence of linear RT instability solutions with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Changsheng Dou , Jialiang Wang , Weiwei Wang

We simulate numerically Boussinesq convection in non-rotating spherical shells for a fluid with a unity Prandtl number and Rayleigh numbers up to $10^9$. In this geometry, curvature and radial variations of the gravitationnal acceleration…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 T. Gastine , J. Wicht , J. M. Aurnou

The transition to turbulence in pipe flow does not follow the scenario familiar from Rayleigh-Benard or Taylor-Couette flow since the laminar profile is stable against infinitesimal perturbations for all Reynolds numbers. Moreover, even…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bruno Eckhardt , Tobias M. Schneider

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

This work investigates the morphological stability of a soft body composed of two heavy elastic layers, attached to a rigid surface and subjected only to the bulk gravity force. Using theoretical and computational tools, we characterize the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-21 Davide Riccobelli , Pasquale Ciarletta

Particles in pressure-driven channel flow are often inhomogeneously distributed. Two modes of low-Reynolds number instability, absent in Poiseuille flow of clean fluid, are created by inhomogeneous particle loading, and their mechanism is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-27 Anup Kumar , Rama Govindarajan

We prove the existence of a unique unstable strong solution in the sense of $L^1$-norm for an abstract Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem arising from stratified viscous fluids in Lagrangian coordinates based on a bootstrap instability method.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Weicheng Zhan

Hydrodynamic instabilities in miscible fluids are ubiquitous, from natural phenomena up to geological scales, to industrial and technological applications, where they represent the only way to control and promote mixing at low Reynolds…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-21 Domenico Truzzolillo , Luca Cipelletti

In plane Couette flow, the incompressible fluid between two plane parallel walls is driven by the motion of those walls. The laminar solution, in which the streamwise velocity varies linearly in the wall-normal direction, is known to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-28 D. Viswanath

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) arises at the interface between two fluids of different densities, notably when a heavier fluid lies above a lighter one in an effective gravitational field. In astrophysical systems with high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-05 Qiqi Jiang , Guang-Xing Li , Chandra B. Singh

We study shallow moist Rayleigh-Benard convection in the Boussinesq approximation in three-dimensional direct numerical simulations. The thermodynamics of phase changes is approximated by a piecewise linear equation of state close to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-25 Joerg Schumacher , Olivier Pauluis

The linear stability of a shear-thinning, viscoelastic fluid undergoing any of the canonical rectilinear shear flows, viz., plane Couette flow and pressure-driven flow through a channel or a tube is analyzed in the creeping-flow limit using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-05 Ramkarn Patne , Shraddha Mandloi , V. Shankar , Ganesh Subramanian

We study the linear and non-linear development of the Kruskal-Schwarzchild Instability in a relativisitically expanding striped wind. This instability is the generalization of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the presence of a magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot , Yuri Lyubarsky

The growth rate of the compressible Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied in the presence of a background temperature gradient, $\Theta$, using a normal mode analysis. The effect of $\Theta$ variation is examined for three interface types…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Gerashchenko , D. Livescu

Turbulent mixing layers in nature are often characterized by the presence of a mean shear and an unstable buoyancy gradient between two streams of different velocity. Depending on the relative strength of shear versus buoyancy, either the…

Gas bubbles immersed in a liquid and flowing through a large pressure gradient undergoes volumetric deformation in addition to possible deviatoric deformation. While the high density liquid phase can be assumed to be an incompressible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Prapanch Nair , Gaurav Tomar

Preliminary polytropic models of a pulsating star have been constructed using the 3-D Hydrocode SPHC. An embedded Rayleigh-Taylor unstable layer is used to study the interaction of pulsation and turbulence. The possible importance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-03 Robert F. Stellingwerf