Buoyant instability of a viscous film over a passive fluid

DOI10.1017/S0022112093002514zbMath0809.76031OpenAlexW2051869926MaRDI QIDQ4276052

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Publication date: 29 March 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112093002514

zbMATH Keywords

similarity solutionRayleigh-Taylor instabilitypeakfinite amplitudepower law fluidssmall-slope approximationdown-welling plumes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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Plume formation in strongly temperature-dependent viscosity fluids over a very hot surface

Cites Work

• Numerical simulations of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability
• A study of Taylor instability of superposed fluids
• Initial value problem for Rayleigh–Taylor instability of viscous fluids
• Method of generalized coordinates and an application to Rayleigh–Taylor instability
• The instability of liquid surfaces when accelerated in a direction perpendicular to their planes. I

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