Weakly nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a finite-thickness fluid layer

LF Wang, HY Guo, JF Wu, WH Ye, J Liu… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A weakly nonlinear (WN) model has been developed for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a
finite-thickness incompressible fluid layer (slab). We derive the coupling evolution equations …

Theory of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

HJ Kull - Physics reports, 1991 - Elsevier
… of fluid descriptions in the present study of RT-type instabilities. Potential flow theory provides
the simplest framework being of considerable interest for the nonlinear stages of instability

The RayleighTaylor instability of viscous fluid layers

A Elgowainy, N Ashgriz - Physics of Fluids, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
… on the nonlinear evolution of RayleighTaylor instability of plane fluid layers are investigated.
… An accurate flux line segment model FLAIR for fluid surface advection is employed for the …

Two-dimensional patterns in Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a thin layer

M Fermigier, L Limat, JE Wesfreid… - Journal of Fluid …, 1992 - cambridge.org
… in the gravitational instability of a thin layer of viscous fluid and we derive nonlinear evolution
… The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is a gravitational instability occurring when there is an …

Nonlinear evolution of the magnetohydrodynamic Rayleigh-Taylor instability

JM Stone, T Gardiner - Physics of Fluids, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
… We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-…
We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density …

Nonlinear interaction of RayleighTaylor and shear instabilities

JM Finn - Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics, 1993 - pubs.aip.org
nonlinear behavior of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. and consequent development of shear
flqw by the shear instability … 7 we show a nonlinear case with ~=~=0.003, and L,,=O.8 but …

Numerical studies of surface-tension effects in nonlinear Kelvin–Helmholtz and RayleighTaylor instability

DI Pullin - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1982 - cambridge.org
… of the nonlinear stability of an interface between two fluids of … If the heavier fluid lies above
the lighter fluid, then under the … may be subject to Rayleigh-Taylor instability (see Taylor 1950) …

Rayleigh-Taylor instability of fluid layers

GR Baker, RL McCrory, CP Verdon… - Journal of Fluid …, 1987 - cambridge.org
… This view of Rayleigh-Taylor instability is valid for both finite and infinite fluid layers. In the …
this interpretation of Rayleigh-Taylor instability to show that the nonlinear evolution of an initial…

RayleighTaylor instability in complex stratifications

JW Jacobs, SB Dalziel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2005 - cambridge.org
The RayleighTaylor instability of a system of three fluids separated by … unstable experiments
the density profile approaches that of an equivalent two-layer RayleighTaylor unstable

[PDF][PDF] Rayleigh-Taylor instability problems

GR Baker, DI Meiron, SA Orszag - Physica, 1984 - academia.edu
fluid, hence resulting in Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The appearance of Rayleigh-Taylor
instability … The nonlinear boundary integral code was also run under the same conditions used to …