Scale invariant bounds for mixing in the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Authors Konstantin Kalinin, Govind Menon, Bian Wu

Publication date 3 March 2023

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

Abstract: We study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability for two miscible, incompressible, inviscid fluids. Scale-invariant estimates for the size of the mixing zone and coarsening of internal structures in the fully nonlinear regime are established following techniques introduced for the Saffman-Taylor instability in [10]. These bounds provide optimal scaling laws and reveal the strong role of dissipation in slowing down mixing.

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