Onset conditions for a Rayleigh-Taylor instability with step function density profiles

DOI10.1007/S10665-013-9649-2zbMath1356.76378OpenAlexW2057263901MaRDI QIDQ512764

Jayna Gandhi, Philip M. J. Trevelyan

Publication date: 28 February 2017

Published in: Journal of Engineering Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-013-9649-2

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilitybuoyancyquasi-steady-state approximationRayleigh-Taylorstep functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10)

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