Numerical simulations of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(88)90112-XzbMath0638.76056OpenAlexW2025526962MaRDI QIDQ1099717

Grétar Tryggvason

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(88)90112-x

zbMATH Keywords

numerical diffusionRayleigh-Taylor instabilitysingularity formationvortex-in-cell methodmotion of an interfaceLagrangian-Eulerian vortex methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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