Theory of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

HJ Kull - Physics reports, 1991 - Elsevier
… It was first studied shortly after Rayleigh's work by Webb … Rayleigh's eigenvalue equation
is also demonstrated in the continuum limit. As special cases, the discussion includes Taylor's

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

DH Sharp - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 1984 - courses.physics.ucsd.edu
… It is not easy for me to imagine dealing scientifically with the whole range of factors that can
influence Rayleigh-Taylor instability, so in this talk I will restrict myself to a few of the factors …

Numerical simulations of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

G Tryggvason - Journal of Computational Physics, 1988 - Elsevier
… For further discussion of the Rayleigh--Taylor instability the reader is referred to the review
by Sharp [5C], In this paper the evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability will be studied by …

[PDF][PDF] The rayleigh-taylor instability

AR Piriz, OD Cortazar, JJ Lopez Cela… - American journal of …, 2006 - researchgate.net
… The instability of a … Rayleigh-Taylor instability in honor of Lord Rayleigh,5 who first described
it mathematically in 1883, and Sir G. Taylor, who in 1950 demonstrated that the instability

The mixing transition in RayleighTaylor instability

AW Cook, W Cabot, PL Miller - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2004 - cambridge.org
… is described for computing RayleighTaylor instability. The … The method is used to simulate
RayleighTaylor instability at … We observe similar behaviour for RayleighTaylor instability. …

On the three-dimensional RayleighTaylor instability

X He, R Zhang, S Chen, GD Doolen - Physics of Fluids, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
… , the RayleighTaylor instability provides an ideal system to study multiphase hydrodynamical
instabilities, … In engineering applications, the RayleighTaylor instability plays a key role in …

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

A Banerjee - Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… diagnostics employed in Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) induced mixing studies have evolved
considerably over the past seven decades. The first theoretical analysis by Taylor and the …

[PDF][PDF] Viscous effects in Rayleigh-Taylor instability

MS Plesset, CG Whipple - Physics of Fluids, 1974 - authors.library.caltech.edu
… which correspond to RayleighTaylor instability. The approximate … water, the conditions for
Rayleigh-Taylor instability are met. It is … quantitatively by Rayleigh-Taylor instability theory for a …

Recent advances in the turbulent RayleighTaylor instability

G Dimonte, P Ramaprabhu, DL Youngs… - Physics of …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
In the turbulent RayleighTaylor instability, the light fluid penetrates the heavy fluid as bubbles
with a diameter D b and amplitude hb that grow self-similarly D b∝ hb∼ α b A gt 2 where …

Transition stages of RayleighTaylor instability between miscible fluids

AW Cook, PE Dimotakis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2001 - cambridge.org
RayleighTaylor instability (RTI) occurs whenever fluids of different density are subjected to
acceleration in a direction opposite that of the density gradient (Rayleigh 1883; Taylor 1950; …