A numerical study of three‐dimensional bubble merger in the Rayleigh–Taylor instability

XL Li - Physics of Fluids, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
… -D Rayleigh–Taylor instability, see Li et al.The simulations of bubble merger presented in this
… The average resolution per bubble is about 2020 in the horizontal cross section. Based on …

[HTML][HTML] Bubble merger and scaling law of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability with surface tension

SI Sohn, S Baek - Physics Letters A, 2017 - Elsevier
… The bubble merger process is also demonstrated from the … bubble, but enhances the
mixing rate of multiple bubbles at a late time. The bubble merger of Rayleigh–Taylor instability

A numerical study of bubble interactions in Rayleigh–Taylor instability for compressible fluids

J Glimm, XL Li, R Menikoff, DH Sharp… - Physics of Fluids A: Fluid …, 1990 - pubs.aip.org
… We also note that the increase in wavelength resulting from bubble merger leads to an
increase in the effective compressibility. A second phenomenon is the change of flow to a bubbly, …

[PDF][PDF] An overview of Rayleigh-Taylor instability

DH Sharp - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1984 - courses.physics.ucsd.edu
… Thus we can infer a simple criterion for the onset of Taylor instability at the interface … Nor
does available information suffice to validate the rules of bubble merger which we have adopted. …

Bubble merger model for the nonlinear Rayleigh–Taylor instability driven by a strong blast wave

AR Miles - Physics of plasmas, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
… the bubble merger time is proportional to the time it takes the bubble to rise by one bubble
… as the fraction of a bubble diameter the bubble must rise before merger takes place, so that …

Recent advances in the turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability

G Dimonte, P Ramaprabhu, DL Youngs… - Physics of …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
… The models differ by their description of self-similarity, which can occur in two limiting ways,
namely, by the non-linear coupling of saturated bubbles (merger) and by the amplification …

Nonlinear evolution of multimode Rayleigh–Taylor instability in two and three dimensions

D Shvarts, U Alon, D Ofer, RL McCrory… - Physics of Plasmas, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
… We begin by briefly describing the nonequilibrium statistical-mechanics bubble-merger model
of the mixing front, and the scaling laws obtained by its application to RT and RM problems…

Self-similar multimode bubble-front evolution of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in two and three dimensions

H Zhang, R Betti, R Yan, D Zhao, D Shvarts, H Aluie - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
… Furthermore, we show that while small scale perturbations reduce αb in the CRTI by
enhancing the bubble merger effect, they can enhance αb in ARTI because of the vorticity-driven …

Rayleigh-Taylor instability with complex acceleration history

G Dimonte, P Ramaprabhu, M Andrews - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2007 - APS
… In this paper, we investigate the RT instability with a complex … We find that the dominant
bubbles and spikes produced … that promotes bubble merger and another for bubble competition. …

Evidence for a bubble-competition regime in indirectly driven ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability experiments on the NIF

DA Martinez, VA Smalyuk, JO Kane, A Casner… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
… We investigate on the National Ignition Facility the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the
… show that a bubble-merger regime for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability at an ablation front is …