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 …

The transition to turbulence in rarefaction-driven Rayleigh–Taylor mixing: Effects of diffuse interface

R Wang, Y Song, Z Ma, D Ma, L Wang, P Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Effects of interface diffusion on the transition to turbulence in rarefaction-driven flows are
numerically investigated via Implicit Large-Eddy simulation. Three-dimensional, multimode …

Effects of viscosity and elasticity on Rayleigh–Taylor instability in a cylindrical geometry

YB Sun, RH Zeng, JJ Tao - Physics of Plasmas, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we present a linear analysis of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) in
cylindrical geometry to investigate the effects of viscosity and elasticity on growth rates using …

Bell–Plesset effects on Rayleigh–Taylor instability at cylindrically divergent interfaces between viscous fluids

Z Wang, K Xue, P Han - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report the first experiments on divergent Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) at well-
controlled single-mode cylindrical interfaces between air and viscous liquid. At early stages …

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 …

Transitional model for rarefaction-driven Rayleigh− Taylor mixing on the diffuse interface

R Wang, Y Song, Z Ma, C Zhang, X Shi, L Wang… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Large eddy simulations are performed to explore transitional characteristics with parametric
variations under initial conditions for rarefaction-driven Rayleigh–Taylor mixing flows and to …

Linear analysis of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in viscoelastic materials

JN Gou, WT Zan, YB Sun, C Wang - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) has become a powerful tool for determining the mechanical
properties of materials under extreme conditions. In this paper, we first present the exact and …

[HTML][HTML] Analytical model for viscous and elastic Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in convergent geometries at static interfaces

JN Gou, RH Zeng, C Wang, YB Sun - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Great attention has been attracted to study the viscous and elastic Rayleigh–Taylor
instability in convergent geometries, especially for their low mode asymmetries that behave …

Converging-diverging shock-driven instabilities along soft hydrogel surfaces

D Pickard, D Martynowych, J Lem, A Koshakji, S Lin… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Intense surface eruptions are observed along the curved surface of a confined cylindrical
film of hydrogel subject to laser-induced converging-diverging shock loading. Detailed …

Finite boundary effects on the spherical Rayleigh–Taylor instability between viscous fluids

GH Oren, G Terrones - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT For the Rayleigh–Taylor unstable arrangement of a viscous fluid sphere
embedded in a finite viscous fluid spherical shell with a rigid boundary and a radially …