Three-dimensional viscous Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the cylindrical interface.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
In this paper, the rotational part of the disturbance flow field caused by viscous Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at the cylindrical interface is considered, and the most unstable mode is revealed to be three-dimensional for interfaces of small radii R. With an increase in R, the azimuthal wave number of the most unstable mode increases step by step, and the corresponding axial wave number increases as well at each step of the azimuthal wave number. When the amplitude of the wave-number vector is much larger or much smaller than 1/R, the cylindrical RTI is close to the semi-infinite planar viscous RTI limit or the finite-thickness creeping-flow RTI limit, respectively. The effect of the viscosity ratio is double-edged; it may enhance or suppress the cylindrical RTI, depending on R and the amplitude range of the wave-number vector.