Energy transfer in Rayleigh-Taylor instability

AW Cook, Y Zhou - Physical Review E, 2002 - APS
The spatial structure and energy budget for Rayleigh-Taylor instability are examined using
results from a 512× 512× 2040 point direct numerical simulation. The outer-scale Reynolds …

A comparative study of the turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability using high-resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations: the Alpha-Group collaboration

G Dimonte, DL Youngs, A Dimits, S Weber… - Physics of …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability is investigated in the limit of strong mode-coupling
using a variety of high-resolution, multimode, three dimensional numerical simulations NS …

Turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor instability experiments with variable acceleration

G Dimonte, M Schneider - Physical review E, 1996 - APS
Turbulent mixing due to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability is experimentally found to vary
strongly with the temporal acceleration profile g (t). For constant g, the bubble amplitude hb …

Effects of variable deceleration periods on Rayleigh-Taylor instability with acceleration reversals

D Aslangil, AGW Lawrie, A Banerjee - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
The dynamics of an interfacial flow that is initially Rayleigh-Taylor unstable but becomes
statically stable for some intermediate period due to the reversal of the externally imposed …

The mixing transition in Rayleigh–Taylor instability

AW Cook, W Cabot, PL Miller - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2004 - cambridge.org
A large-eddy simulation technique is described for computing Rayleigh–Taylor instability.
The method is based on high-wavenumber-preserving subgrid-scale models, combined with …

Recent advances in the turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability

G Dimonte, P Ramaprabhu, DL Youngs… - Physics of …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
In the turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor 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 …

The late-time dynamics of the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability

P Ramaprabhu, G Dimonte, P Woodward, C Fryer… - Physics of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
, 1961)] instability to late times and high aspect ratios. In contrast to established potential
flow models that predict a terminal velocity and a constant Froude number at low Atwood …

Density ratio dependence of Rayleigh–Taylor mixing for sustained and impulsive acceleration histories

G Dimonte, M Schneider - Physics of fluids, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
The turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability is investigated over a comprehensive range of fluid
density ratio (R) 1.3⩽ R⩽ 50 [0.15⩽ A=(R− 1)/(R+ 1)⩽ 0.96] and different acceleration …

The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability driven by an accel-decel-accel profile

P Ramaprabhu, V Karkhanis, AGW Lawrie - Physics of Fluids, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We describe numerical simulations of the miscible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability driven by
a complex acceleration history, g (t), with initially destabilizing acceleration, g> 0, an …

Effect of shear on Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at small Atwood number

B Akula, MJ Andrews, D Ranjan - … Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2013 - APS
The effect of shear on the development of Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) is studied at an
Atwood number of 0.035 using the gas tunnel at Texas A&M University. Two types of …