Experimental study of the single-mode three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability

DOI10.1063/1.2813548zbMath1182.76828MaRDI QIDQ5303688

John P. D. Wilkinson, Jeffrey W. Jacobs

Publication date: 18 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2813548

zbMATH Keywords

vortices; Rayleigh-Taylor instability; drag; bubbles; fluid oscillations; tanks (containers)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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