Three-dimensional bubbles in Rayleigh–Taylor instability

A Oparin, S Abarzhi - Physics of Fluids, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
We study the highly nonlinear stages of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability RTI for three-
dimensional flow. The proposed numerical and analytical methods are original approaches …

Stable steady flows in Rayleigh-Taylor instability

SI Abarzhi - Physical review letters, 1998 - APS
Steady flows generated by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) are considered for
incompressible inviscid fluid. There is a family of steady solutions, and for the first time the …

Low-symmetric bubbles in Rayleigh–Taylor instability

SI Abarzhi - Physics of Fluids, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
We report a multimode analysis of the 3D–2D dimensional crossover for the nonlinear
structure, which occurs in the nonlinear regime of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI). This …

A numerical study of three‐dimensional bubble merger in the Rayleigh–Taylor instability

XL Li - Physics of Fluids, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
The Rayleigh–Taylor instability arises when a heavy fluid adjacent to a light fluid is
accelerated in a direction against the density gradient. Under this unstable configuration, a …

Length scale for bubble problem in Rayleigh–Taylor instability

SI Abarzhi - Physics of Fluids, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
In some researches on the bubble problem in the Rayleigh–Taylor instability, the bubble
radius is identified with one-half spatial period. We show that these quantities are distinct …

Dynamics of two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor bubbles for fluids with a finite density contrast

SI Abarzhi, J Glimm, AD Lin - Physics of Fluids, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
We study the motion of a two-dimensional coherent structure of bubbles and spikes in the
Rayleigh–Taylor instability for fluids with a finite density contrast in the case of a small …

Analytical model of nonlinear evolution of single-mode Rayleigh–Taylor instability in cylindrical geometry

Z Zhao, P Wang, N Liu, X Lu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
We present an analytical model of nonlinear evolution of two-dimensional single-mode
Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) in cylindrical geometry at arbitrary Atwood number for the …

Effects of temporal density variation and convergent geometry on nonlinear bubble evolution in classical Rayleigh-Taylor instability

VN Goncharov, D Li - Physical Review E, 2005 - APS
Abstract Effects of temporal density variation and spherical convergence on the nonlinear
bubble evolution of single-mode, classical Rayleigh-Taylor instability are studied using an …

Effects of viscosity on the growth of Rayleigh–Taylor instability

YG Cao, HZ Guo, ZF Zhang, ZH Sun… - Journal of Physics A …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Using Zufiria's potential flow model with a point source in the velocity potential, we
investigate the effects of viscosity on the growth of the bubble in Rayleigh–Taylor instability …

Effects of compressibility and Atwood number on the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability

T Luo, J Wang, C Xie, M Wan, S Chen - Physics of fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In order to study the effect of compressibility on Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability, we
numerically simulated the late-time evolution of two-dimensional single-mode RT instability …