Viscosity, heat conductivity, and Prandtl number effects in the Rayleigh–Taylor instability

F Chen, AG Xu, GC Zhang - Frontiers of Physics, 2016 - Springer
… of the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability. Before this, the Prandtl number effect is not sensitive.
Viscosity, heat conductivity, and Prandtl number effects on nonequilibrium manifestations and …

Effects of Prandtl number on mixing process in miscible Rayleigh‐Taylor instability: A lattice Boltzmann study

G Liu, Z Guo - International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & …, 2013 - emerald.com
… The purpose of this paper is to investigate, numerically, the effects of the Prandtl number
on the mixing process in two‐dimensional Rayleigh‐Taylor instability of incompressible and …

Influence of Prandtl number on stability of mixed convective flow in a vertical channel filled with a porous medium

P Bera, A Khalili - Physics of fluids, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
… A wide range of Prandtl numbers [0.01, 100] were considered to simulate the stability
Results and discussion including impact of Prandtl number as a function of Re and Da for …

Linear instability of concentric annular flow: Effect of Prandtl number and gap between cylinders

A Khan, P Bera - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
… the impact of the gap between cylinders in terms of curvature parameter (C) and Prandtl
number (Pr) on the instability of … number (Re). However, in the present study, we have seen the …

Influence of Prandtl number on instability mechanisms and transition in a differentially heated square cavity

RJA Janssen, R Henkes - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1995 - cambridge.org
… on the Prandtl number and secondly to investigate the physical mechanisms responsible
for the bifurcations observed. It is found that in the square cavity, for Prandtl numbers between …

Prandtl number dependence and instability mechanism of the near-field flow in a planar thermal plume

T Hattori, SE Norris, MP Kirkpatrick… - Journal of Fluid …, 2013 - cambridge.org
… reduces the spatial growth rate of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability associated with the unstable
thermal stratification. Further, the oscillation frequencies in the plume stem were found to …

Statistics of mixing in three-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor turbulence at low Atwood number and Prandtl number one

G Boffetta, A Mazzino, S Musacchio, L Vozella - Physics of Fluids, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
… Three-dimensional miscible Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) turbulence at small Atwood number
and at Prandtl number one is investigated by means of high resolution direct numerical …

Study of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in viscosity-stratified fluid layers

SP Jaiswal, M Gavara - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
effect of Prandtl number is studied in the range of 0.01 to 100. Interface profiles of the instability
for different Prandtl numbers … the instability is almost unaffected by the Prandtl number

Compressibility effects in Rayleigh–Taylor instability-induced flows

S Gauthier, B Le Creurer - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… off wavenumber may be increased by increasing either the Reynolds, Schmidt or Prandtl
number. … of the specific features of a spatial progress of Rayleigh–Taylor instability. Proc. 7th Int. …

MHD Taylor-Couette Flow for Small Magnetic Prandtl Number and With Hall Effect

R Arlt, G Rüdiger - Progress in Turbulence, 2005 - Springer
… The fact that Chandrasekhar did not report on this MHD instability in [4] is due to his
approximation of very low magnetic Prandtl numbers, Pm = ν/η, where ν is the kinematic viscosity …