Three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability Part 1. Weakly nonlinear theory

DOI10.1017/S002211208800045XzbMath0642.76066MaRDI QIDQ3783726

Jeffrey W. Jacobs, Ivan Catton

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic solutionaxisymmetric instabilitiesconfined inviscid liquidoverlying gasThree-dimensional weakly nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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