Explosion-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability in gas-particle mixtures

K Balakrishnan - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The structure and growth of an explosion-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability in gas-particle
mixtures is investigated using two-dimensional numerical simulations. Particle concentration …

[PDF][PDF] Interfacial instabilities in explosive gas-particle flows

DL Frost, Y Gregoire, S Goroshin, F Zhang - Proc. 23rd Int. Coll. Dynamics …, 2011 - icders.org
When a group of particles is rapidly accelerated by interacting with a shock or expansion
wave and subsequent high-speed gas flow, instabilities typically develop within and at the …

Numerical study of particle-induced Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Effects of particle settling and entrainment

YJ Chou, YC Shao - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, we investigate Rayleigh-Taylor instability in which the density stratification is
caused by the suspension of particles in liquid flows using the conventional single-phase …

Nonlinear Rayleigh–Taylor instability of a cylindrical interface in explosion flows

S Annamalai, MK Parmar… - Journal of Fluids …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The nonlinear growth of instabilities of an outward propagating, but decelerating, cylindrical
interface separated by fluids of different densities is investigated. Single mode perturbations …

Analogues of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities in flows with nonuniform particle and droplet seeding

P Vorobieff, M Anderson, J Conroy… - WIT Transactions on …, 2011 - books.google.com
Abstract The well-known Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instabilities
characterize the behavior of flows where two gases (or fluids) of different densities mix due …

Multiphase effects on spherical Rayleigh-Taylor interfacial instability

MR Mankbadi, S Balachandar - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A spherical shock-tube model is implemented to focus the attention on the flow instability
produced by the release of the driver mixture of gas-particles into the cold driven pure gas …

Exploring the Atwood-number dependence of the highly nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability regime in high-energy-density conditions

G Rigon, B Albertazzi, P Mabey, T Michel, E Falize… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We experimentally study the late-time, highly nonlinear regime of the Rayleigh-Taylor
instability in a decelerating phase. A series of laser-driven experiments is performed on the …

Kinetic interpretation of the classical Rayleigh-Taylor instability

J Rodman, P Cagas, A Hakim, B Srinivasan - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities are prevalent in many physical regimes ranging from
astrophysical to laboratory plasmas and have primarily been studied using fluid models, the …

On validation of turbulent mixing simulations for Rayleigh–Taylor instability

H Lee, H Jin, Y Yu, J Glimm - Physics of Fluids, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Rayleigh–Taylor RT instability occurs when a dense, heavy fluid is accelerated by a light
fluid, yielding initially well-defined bubbles and spikes of light and heavy fluid, each …

On saturation of Rayleigh-Taylor instability

AL Frenkel, D Halpern - IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Waves in Multi …, 2000 - Springer
As is well known, the gravitational Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability of fluid layers occurs in
various industrial and natural processes. Examples include coating flows with paint or …