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It is well-known that the Rayleigh--Taylor (abbr. RT) instability can be completely inhibited by the quantum effect stabilization in proper circumstances leading to a cutoff wavelength in the \emph{linear} motion equations. Motivated by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Fei Jiang , Yajie Zhang , Zhipeng Zhang , Youyi Zhao

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

When a liquid drop strikes a deep pool of a second liquid, an impact crater opens while the liquid of the drop decelerates and spreads on the surface of the crater. If the density of the drop is larger than the surrounding, the interface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-21 V. Lherm , R. Deguen , T. Alboussière , M. Landeau

We consider the Rayleigh-Taylor problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid, barotropic fluids evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. After constructing Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

Linear stability of inviscid, parallel, and stably stratified shear flow is studied under the assumption of smooth strictly monotonic profiles of shear flow and density, so that the local Richardson number is positive everywhere. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Makoto Hirota , Philip J. Morrison

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities are prevalent in many physical regimes ranging from astrophysical to laboratory plasmas and have primarily been studied using fluid models, the majority of which have been ideal fluid models. This work is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 John Rodman , Petr Cagas , Ammar Hakim , Bhuvana Srinivasan

Guo--Tice formally established in 2011 that the Rayleigh--Taylor instability inevitably occurs within stratified compressible viscous fluids in a slab domain $\mathbb{R}^2\times (h_-,h_+)$, irrespecive of the presence of interfacial surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Fei Jiang , Han Jiang , Song Jiang

The basic stationary buoyant flow in a vertical annular porous passage induced by a boundary temperature difference is investigated. The vertical cylindrical boundaries are considered both isothermal and permeable to external fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-03 A. Barletta , M. Celli , D. A. S. Rees

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

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

This paper is concerned with the Rayleigh-Taylor instability for the nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier-slip boundary conditions around a steady-state in an infinite slab, where the Navier-slip coefficients do…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Shijin Ding , Zhijun Ji , Quanrong Li

We have developed a theoretical analysis to systematically study the late-time evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a finite-sized spatial domain. The nonlinear dynamics of fluids with similar and contrasting densities are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-16 Annie Naveh , Miccal T. Matthews , Snezhana I. Abarzhi

We present the linear theory of two-dimensional incompressible magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a system composed of a linear elastic (Hookean) layer above a lighter semi-infinite ideal fluid with magnetic fields present, above and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 S. A. Piriz , A. R. Piriz , N. A. Tahir

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of two layers of immiscible, inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational fluids through a full nonlinear system. Our goal is to establish a virial theorem and prove the polynomial growth of slope and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Haocheng Yang

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is a key process in many fields of Physics ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. It is usually analyzed deriving the linearized fluid equations, but the physics behind the instability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A Bret

The dynamics of self-similar Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing layers are investigated across a broad range of Atwood and Reynolds numbers using the statistically stationary Rayleigh-Taylor (SRT) flow configuration - a computational framework…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Chian Yeh Goh , Daniel Brito Matehuala , Guillaume Blanquart

In this work a non-trivial effect of the interfacial curvature on the stability of accelerated interfaces, such as liquid rims, is uncovered. The new stability analysis, based on operator and boundary perturbation theories, reveals and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-04-28 Rouslan Krechetnikov

The Rayleigh capillary instability of a cylindrical interface between two immiscible fluids is one of the most fundamental in fluid dynamics. As Plateau observed from energetic considerations and Rayleigh clarified through hydrodynamics,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas R. Powers , Dengfu Zhang , Raymond E. Goldstein , Howard A. Stone

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

We investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solution (including the case of heavier density with increasing height) to the three-dimensional incompressible nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Weiwei Wang