A comparison of experimental, theoretical, and numerical simulation RayleighTaylor mixing rates

E George, J Glimm, XL Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
… We present a RayleighTaylor mixing rate simulation with an acceleration rate falling
within the range of experiments. The simulation uses front tracking to prevent interfacial mass …

Experimental comparison of classical versus ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability

KS Budil, BA Remington, TA Peyser, KO Mikaelian… - Physical review …, 1996 - APS
experimental observation of the stabilization of RT growth at an ablation front by comparing
… To make the direct experimental comparison of ablation-front RT growth versus that at the …

Progress on understanding RayleighTaylor flow and mixing using synergy between simulation, modeling, and experiment

O Schilling - Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… by comparison of their predictions to physical experimental data. This review summarizes
such efforts and comparisons to … It should be noted that simulations, models, and experiments

Rayleigh-Taylor instability: a status review of experimental designs and measurement diagnostics

A Banerjee - Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… The focus of experiments and the sophistication of diagnostics employed in Rayleigh-Taylor
The first theoretical analysis by Taylor and the two-dimensional experimental results by …

Experimental study of RayleighTaylor instability with a complex initial perturbation

DH Olson, JW Jacobs - Physics of Fluids, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Experiments have been performed investigating the RayleighTaylor instability initialized …
three stages in the evolution of turbulent RayleighTaylor growth. Assuming a broadband …

Experimental study of the single-mode three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability

JP Wilkinson, JW Jacobs - Physics of fluids, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Rayleigh and Taylor took the first steps in analyzing RT instability by developing the linear
stability theory. Taylor showed that a system of two superimposed fluids of different densities …

Single‐mode and multimode RayleighTaylor experiments on Nova

BA Remington, SV Weber, MM Marinak, SW Haan… - Physics of …, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
… and perturbation growth continues due to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Detailed
comparisons with simulations indicate that in the linea: Raylei~h-Taylor regime, the single-mode …

A critical analysis of RayleighTaylor growth rates

J Glimm, JW Grove, XL Li, W Oh, DH Sharp - Journal of Computational …, 2001 - Elsevier
… To do this, we summarize the results of previous RayleighTaylor instability studies, identify
potential sensitive factors in RayleighTaylor simulations, and report new simulation results …

Rayleigh-Taylor instability: experiments with image analysis

SB Dalziel - Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 1993 - Elsevier
… In this paper we have shown that near ideal initial conditions for Rayleigh-Taylor instability
may be produced using a simple apparatus of novel design. Despite an initial nonlinear …

Three-dimensional single mode Rayleigh-Taylor experiments on Nova

MM Marinak, BA Remington, SV Weber, RE Tipton… - Physical review …, 1995 - APS
… shape on the growth and saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor … In this Letter we present the
first experimental study, together with simulations, of the effect of 3D perturbation shape on …