Direct simulation Monte Carlo investigation of hydrodynamic instabilities in gases

MA Gallis, TP Koehler, JR Torczynski… - AIP Conference …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) is investigated using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo
(DSMC) method of molecular gas dynamics. Here, two-dimensional and three-dimensional …

Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities: a journey through scales

Y Zhou, RJR Williams, P Ramaprabhu, M Groom… - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrodynamic instabilities such as Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM)
instabilities usually appear in conjunction with the Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) instability and are …

Compressible Rayleigh–Taylor turbulent mixing layer between Newtonian miscible fluids

S Gauthier - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Rayleigh–Taylor instability induced turbulence between two compressible miscible
Newtonian fluids is studied in a strongly stratified configuration at a moderate Atwood …

Reactive rayleigh–taylor turbulence

M Chertkov, V Lebedev, N Vladimirova - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2009 - cambridge.org
The Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instability develops and leads to turbulence when a heavy fluid
falls under the action of gravity through a light one. We consider a model in which the RT …

Confinement-induced stabilization of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability and transition to the unconfined limit

S Alqatari, TE Videbæk, SR Nagel, AE Hosoi… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The prevention of hydrodynamic instabilities can lead to important insights for understanding
the instabilities' underlying dynamics. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability that arises when a …

Surface tension in incompressible Rayleigh–Taylor mixing flow

YN Young, FE Ham - Journal of Turbulence, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
We study the effect of surface tension on the incompressible Rayleigh–Taylor instability. We
modify Goncharov's local analysis to consider the surface tension effect on the Rayleigh …

Multiple eigenmodes of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability observed for a fluid interface with smoothly varying density. II. Asymptotic solution and its interpretation

M Dong, Z Fan, C Yu - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
It was observed in the first part of this work [CX Yu, Phys. Rev. E 97, 013102 (2018) 2470-
0045 10.1103/PhysRevE. 97.013102] that a Rayleigh-Taylor flow with a smoothly varying …

Multi-layer Rayleigh–Taylor instability: Consequences for naturally occurring stratified mixing layers

A Sengupta, HN Ulloa, B Joshi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The present study investigates the behavior of multi-layer Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI)
and enstrophy transport in the flow using a three-dimensional computational framework. The …

Quantifying mixing of Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence

Y Zhang, W Ni, Y Ruan, H Xie - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
Accurate quantification of turbulent mixing induced by classical Rayleigh-Taylor instability is
of fundamental importance for many natural phenomena and engineering applications …

[PDF][PDF] Computation of two-phase mixing properties in Rayleigh-Taylor instability

D Saltz, D Sendersky - Int. J. Multi Phase Flow, 1999 - Citeseer
The statistical evolution of a planar, randomly perturbed uid interface subject to Rayleigh-
Taylor instability is explored through numerical simulation in two space dimensions. The …