On the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in presence of a background shear

DOI10.1007/S00021-018-0362-9MaRDI QIDQ1795288zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roman Shvydkoy

Publication date 16 October 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01241

zbMATH Keywords

essential spectrumpseudo-differential operatorRayleigh-Taylor instabilityWKB

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

Abstract: In this note we revisit the classical subject of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in presence of an incompressible background shear flow. We derive a formula for the essential spectral radius of the evolution group generated by the linearization near the steady state and reveal that the velocity variations neutralize shortwave instabilities. The formula is a direct generalization of the result of H. J. Hwang and Y. Guo in the hydrostatic case cite{HG}. Furthermore, we construct a class of steady states which posses unstable discrete spectrum with neutral essential spectrum. The technique involves the WKB analysis of the evolution equation and contains novel compactness criterion for pseudo-differential operators on unbounded domains.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3934609
• Rayleigh-CTaylor instability for compressible rotating flows
• An improved result on Rayleigh-Taylor instability of nonhomogeneous incompressible viscous flows
• On the dynamical Rayleigh-Taylor instability
• On the steady solutions of the problem of Rayleigh–Taylor instability

Cites work

• Continuous spectrum of the 3D Euler equation is a solid annulus
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1637290 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1671370 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3709066 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2066058 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2150557 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2124170 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2196551 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3230110 (Why is no real title available?)
• Nonlinear instability in an ideal fluid
• Nonlinear instability in two-dimensional ideal fluids: the case of a dominant eigenvalue
• On nonlinear instability and stability for stratified shear flow
• On the dynamical Rayleigh-Taylor instability
• On the Fourier Analysis of Operators on the Torus
• Operator algebras and the Fredholm spectrum of advective equations of linear hydrodynamics
• Quantization of pseudo-differential operators on the torus
• Spectrum of small oscillations of an ideal fluid and Lyapunov exponents
• The essential spectrum of advective equations
• The linear and nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for the quasi-isobaric profile
• The radius of the essential spectrum
• Unstable manifolds of Euler equations

Cited in

(1)

• On the dynamical Rayleigh-Taylor instability of 2D inviscid geophysical fluids with geostrophic balance

This page was built for publication: On the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in presence of a background shear

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1795288)