Proceedings of CONV-14: International Symposium on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer.
DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2014.IntSympConvHeatMassTransf
ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-356-7
ISSN Online: 2642-3499
ISSN Flash Drive: 2642-3502
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY OF INVISCID AND VISCOUS FLUID
pages 1327-1334
DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2014.IntSympConvHeatMassTransf.1000
ABSTRACT
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the inviscid and viscous cases is investigated based on numerical simulations of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. It is shown that as the hydrodynamic instabilities develop they form vortex cascades. Our study demonstrates that emerging flows and their characteristics are identical for both models.