Rayleigh-Taylor instability in accelerated elastic-solid slabs.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
We develop the linear theory for the asymptotic growth of the incompressible Rayleigh-Taylor instability of an accelerated solid slab of density ρ_{2}, shear modulus G, and thickness h, placed over a semi-infinite ideal fluid of density ρ_{1}<ρ_{2}. It extends previous results for Atwood number A_{T}=1 [B. J. Plohr and D. H. Sharp, Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 49, 786 (1998)ZAMPA80044-227510.1007/s000330050121] to arbitrary values of A_{T} and unveil the singular feature of an instability threshold below which the slab is stable for any perturbation wavelength. As a consequence, an accelerated elastic-solid slab is stable if ρ_{2}gh/G≤2(1-A_{T})/A_{T}.