Rayleigh–Taylor instability of an inclined buoyant viscous cylinder

DOI10.1017/S0022112010005689zbMath1225.76121MaRDI QIDQ3097780

John R. Lister, Nick J. Russell, Andrew Crosby, Ross C Kerr

Publication date: 10 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112010005689

zbMATH Keywords

buoyancy-driven instability; low-Reynolds-number flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E17: Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability

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