Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability of rotating inviscid fluids

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2013 Jan;87(1):013001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.013001. Epub 2013 Jan 3.

Abstract

It is demonstrated theoretically that the nonlinear stage of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability can be retarded at arbitrary Atwood numbers in a rotating system with the axis of rotation normal to the acceleration of the interface between two uniform inviscid fluids. The Coriolis force provides an effective restoring force on the perturbed interface, and the uniform rotation will always decrease the nonlinear saturation amplitude of the interface at any disturbance wavelength.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Nonlinear Dynamics*
  • Rheology / methods*
  • Rotation