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

DI Pullin - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1982 - cambridge.org
… and Rayleigh-Taylor modes, … interface in the presence of an interfacialtension term, the
basic cause of this instability remains unknown. The final description of the nonlinear interface

RayleighTaylor problem for a liquid–liquid phase interface

X Chen, E Fried - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2006 - cambridge.org
… A linear stability analysis of the RayleighTaylor problem for an incompressible fluid … Both
inviscid and linearly viscous fluids are considered and interfacial tension is taken into account. …

Effects of surface tension on immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence

M Chertkov, I Kolokolov, V Lebedev - Physical Review E, 2005 - APS
We present phenomenology describing the internal structure of a turbulent zone, produced
as the result of the push of a heavy fluid into a light one, for the case of immiscible fluids. One …

Discrete Boltzmann modeling of Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Effects of interfacial tension, viscosity, and heat conductivity

J Chen, A Xu, D Chen, Y Zhang, Z Chen - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
… They found that when the interfacial tension was less than the … the interfacial tension. On
the other hand, oscillatory behavior of the interface was observed when the interfacial tension

Surface tension in incompressible RayleighTaylor mixing flow

YN Young, FE Ham - Journal of Turbulence, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
… We study the effect of surface tension on the incompressible RayleighTaylor instability. We
… surface tension effect on the RayleighTaylor bubble velocity. The surface tension damps …

Effects of surface tension and rotation on the RayleighTaylor instability

NF El-Ansary, GA Hoshoudy, AS Abd-Elrady… - Physical Chemistry …, 2002 - pubs.rsc.org
… A common feature of all the figures is that both T and T′ succeed in stabilizing the systems
and that the interfacial tension T has more influence than T′. This is evident from the point …

RayleighTaylor instability in thin viscous films

SG Yiantsios, BG Higgins - Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics, 1989 - pubs.aip.org
… In this paper we study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a two-… forces resulting from interfacial
tension are much larger than … Evolution equations for the interface between the two fluids …

Interfacial dynamics in demixing systems with ultralow interfacial tension

D Aarts, RPA Dullens… - New Journal of …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
… , the gravity-driven flow is reminiscent of the RayleighTaylor instability [38, 39]. In our case,
the fastest growing mode of the RayleighTaylor instability is larger than the capillary length, …

The effects of density difference and surface tension on the development of Rayleigh-Taylor instability of an interface between fluid media

SN Yakovenko - Fluid Dynamics, 2014 - Springer
… model” of a surface tension force. A numerical study of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem
is performed for different density ratios ρ 1 /ρ 2 on the interface, including the real cases …

Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a miscible interface in a confined domain

T Lyubimova, A Vorobev, S Prokopev - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
interface is inversely proportional to the surface tension, and the stronger surface tension
limits the development of the Rayleigh-TaylorRayleigh-Taylor instability of a miscible interface