Collaboration and competition between Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and Rayleigh-Taylor instability

F Chen, A Xu, G Zhang - Physics of fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The two-dimensional Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability (RMI) system and the coexisting system
combined with Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) are simulated with a multiple-relaxation time …

Nonlinear saturation amplitude in the Rayleigh-Taylor instability at arbitrary Atwood numbers with continuous profiles

LF Wang, WH Ye, ZF Fan, YJ Li - Europhysics Letters, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an approximate method to derive an analytic formula for the Nonlinear
Saturation Amplitude (NSA, η s), in the two-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) for …

Experimental assessment of mixing layer scaling laws in Rayleigh-Taylor instability

M De Paoli, D Perissutti, C Marchioli, A Soldati - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
We assess experimentally the scaling laws that characterize the mixing region produced by
the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a confined porous medium. In particular, we wish to assess …

Multiple eigenmodes of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability observed for a fluid interface with smoothly varying density. III. Excitation and nonlinear evolution

Z Fan, M Dong - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Abstract A compressible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable flow with a diffuse interface where
the density varies smoothly supports a multiplicity of unstable eigenmodes that grow …

Scale-to-scale energy transfer in rarefaction-driven Rayleigh–Taylor instability-induced transitional mixing

R Wang, Y Song, Z Ma, Y Zhang, J Wang, Y Xu… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The rarefaction-driven Rayleigh–Taylor instability-induced mixing flow is numerically
investigated via large eddy simulation. Prior analyses of interfacial diffusion are conducted …

Destabilizing effect of compressibility on Rayleigh–Taylor instability for fluids with fixed density profile

C Xue, W Ye - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Analytical solutions for the growth rate of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) for two
superimposed fluids of exponentially varying densities are obtained by variational approach …

Revisiting the late-time growth of single-mode Rayleigh–Taylor instability and the role of vorticity

X Bian, H Aluie, D Zhao, H Zhang, D Livescu - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 2020 - Elsevier
Growth of the single-fluid single-mode Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) is revisited in 2D and
3D using fully compressible high-resolution simulations. We conduct a systematic analysis …

Evolution of the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability under the influence of time-dependent accelerations

P Ramaprabhu, V Karkhanis, R Banerjee, H Varshochi… - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
From nonlinear models and direct numerical simulations we report on several findings of
relevance to the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability driven by time-varying …

Rayleigh–Taylor instability with gravity reversal

D Livescu, T Wei, PT Brady - Physica D: nonlinear phenomena, 2021 - Elsevier
We present results from Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of Rayleigh–Taylor instability at
Atwood numbers up to 0.9. After the layer width had developed substantially, additional …

Numerical simulation of three-fluid Rayleigh-Taylor instability using an enhanced Volume-Of-Fluid (VOF) model: New benchmark solutions

F Garoosi, TF Mahdi - Computers & Fluids, 2022 - Elsevier
The main objective of the present study is to introduce two novel benchmark solutions
namely: two-dimensional three-fluid Rayleigh-Taylor Instability problems, aiming to provide …