Delineation of the flow and mixing induced by Rayleigh–Taylor instability through tracers

G Zhang, A Xu, D Zhang, Y Li, H Lai, X Hu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Rayleigh–Taylor-instability (RTI) induced flow and mixing are of great importance in both
nature and engineering scenarios. To capture the underpinning physics, tracers are …

Rayleigh–Taylor instability under multi-mode perturbation: Discrete Boltzmann modeling with tracers

H Li, A Xu, G Zhang, Y Shan - Communications in Theoretical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor Instability (RTI) under multi-mode
perturbation in compressible flow is probed via the Discrete Boltzmann Modeling (DBM) with …

Evolution of mixing width induced by general Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Y Zhang, Z He, F Gao, X Li, B Tian - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
Turbulent mixing induced by Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability occurs ubiquitously in many
natural phenomena and engineering applications. As the simplest and primary descriptor of …

[PDF][PDF] Two Phase Flow Analysis of Turbulent Mixing in the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Y Chen - 1995 - Citeseer
Rayleigh-Taylor instability occurs when two uids are separated by an interface, and an
accelerating force, such as gravity, is directed from the heavy uid to the light uid. This type of …

Role of non-zero bulk viscosity in three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Beyond Stokes' hypothesis

A Sengupta, RJ Samuel, P Sundaram, TK Sengupta - Computers & Fluids, 2021 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) of Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at
the interface of two masses of air with a sharp temperature gradient of 149 K are performed …

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
instability (RTI) induced mixing studies have evolved considerably over the past seven …

Self-similarity and internal structure of turbulence induced by Rayleigh–Taylor instability

SB Dalziel, PF Linden, DL Youngs - Journal of fluid Mechanics, 1999 - cambridge.org
This paper describes an experimental investigation of mixing due to Rayleigh–Taylor
instability between two miscible fluids. Attention is focused on the gravitationally driven …

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 …

Transition stages of Rayleigh–Taylor instability between miscible fluids

AW Cook, PE Dimotakis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2001 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) are presented of three-dimensional, Rayleigh–Taylor
instability (RTI) between two incompressible, miscible fluids, with a 3: 1 density ratio …

Mixing efficiency in high-aspect-ratio Rayleigh–Taylor experiments

SB Dalziel, MD Patterson, CP Caulfield… - Physics of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
High-Reynolds-number turbulence generated by Rayleigh–Taylor instability is known to be
much more efficient at mixing density-stratified fluids than mixing driven by most other …