Effect of compressibility on the Rayleigh–Taylor instability

DOI10.1063/1.864158zbMath0514.76127MaRDI QIDQ3661255

Ira B. Bernstein, David L. Book

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864158

zbMATH Keywords

Rayleigh-Taylor instability; adiabatic index; eigenfrequencies; incompressible; compressible; infinitesimal perturbations; linear growth rate; constant-temperature ideal polytrope stratified exponentially against gravity; two semi-infinite regions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E99: Hydrodynamic stability

76X05: Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow

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