Curvature suppresses the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

DOI10.1063/1.4876476zbMATH Open1321.76008arXiv1401.4362OpenAlexW1991128729MaRDI QIDQ2947717FDOQ2947717

Authors: Philippe H. Trinh, Hyoungsoo Kim, Naima Hammoud, P. D. Howell, Howard A. Stone, S. Jonathan Chapman 

Publication date: 28 September 2015

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

Abstract: The dynamics of a thin liquid film on the underside of a curved cylindrical substrate is studied. The evolution of the liquid layer is investigated as the film thickness and the radius of curvature of the substrate are varied. A dimensionless parameter (a modified Bond number) that incorporates both geometric parameters, gravity, and surface tension is identified, and allows the observations to be classified according to three different flow regimes: stable films, films with transient growth of perturbations followed by decay, and unstable films. Experiments and theory confirm that, below a critical value of the Bond number, curvature of the substrate suppresses the Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4362

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thin fluid films (76A20) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17)

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