Toward analytic theory of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability: lessons from a toy model

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AA6EB5zbMATH Open1368.76026arXiv1610.03181OpenAlexW2530038931MaRDI QIDQ5348115FDOQ5348115

Authors: Alexei A. Mailybaev 

Publication date: 14 August 2017

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we suggest that a turbulent phase of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability can be explained as a universal stochastic wave traveling with constant speed in a properly renormalized system. This wave, originating from ordinary deterministic chaos in a renormalized time, has two constant limiting states at both sides. These states are related to the initial discontinuity at large scales and to stationary turbulence at small scales. The theoretical analysis is confirmed with extensive numerical simulations made for a new shell model, which features basic properties of the phenomenological theory for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03181

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zbMATH Keywords

chaosrenormalizationRayleigh-Taylor instabilityturbulencespontaneous stochasticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20) Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55) Convective turbulence (76F35)

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