Linear stability of the cylindrical Couette flow of a rarefied gas

H Yoshida, K Aoki - Physical Review E, 2006 - APS
A rarefied gas between two coaxial circular cylinders of infinite length, rotating with different
angular velocities and kept at a common temperature, is considered. The stability of the …

Compressibility effects on the Rayleigh–Taylor instability growth rates

H Yong, H Xi-Wei, J Zhong-He - Chinese Physics Letters, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Effects of two compressibility parameters, ie the ratio of specific heats and the
equilibrium pressure at the interface, on the Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) growth rates …

Experimental study of the single-mode three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability

JP Wilkinson, JW Jacobs - Physics of fluids, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied in a low Atwood number (A≈
0.15) miscible fluid system. The two fluids are contained within a Plexiglas tank that is …

Numerical simulations of two-fluid turbulent mixing at large density ratios and applications to the Rayleigh–Taylor instability

D Livescu - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A tentative review is presented of various approaches for numerical simulations of two-fluid
gaseous mixtures at high density ratios, as they have been applied to the Rayleigh–Taylor …

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 …

Three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of Rayleigh–Taylor instability triggered by acoustic excitation

A Sengupta, P Sundaram, VK Suman, TK Sengupta - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) occurs when the interface between two fluids of different
densities is removed, with the heavier (cold) fluid resting on top of the lighter (hot) fluid in the …

Thermally stratified free shear layers: Combined Kelvin–Helmholtz Rayleigh–Taylor instability

A Sengupta, B Joshi, AK Verma - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT A numerical investigation of Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) with different
unstable thermal stratifications, and coupled Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) and RTI (referred to as …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical simulation of the three-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability

HG Lee, J Kim - Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rayleigh–Taylor instability is a fundamental instability of an interface between
two fluids of different densities, which occurs when the light fluid is pushing the heavy fluid …

Evolution of multimode Rayleigh-Taylor instability towards self-similar turbulent mixing

S Atzeni, A Guerrieri - Europhysics Letters, 1993 - iopscience.iop.org
The evolution of the multimode Rayleigh-Taylor instability of nearly incompressible fluids,
with density ratio r= 2, is investigated by means of two-dimensional hydrodynamic …

Time-dependent study of anisotropy in Rayleigh-Taylor instability induced turbulent flows with a variety of density ratios

Y Zhou, WH Cabot - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This study focuses on understanding the time-dependent anisotropy, mixing, scaling of flows
induced by Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and complementing the late-time snapshots reported …