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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Self-similar Rayleigh-Taylor mixing with accelerations varying in time and space.

Snezhana I Abarzhi, Katepalli R Sreenivasan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence: Implications for bacterial degradation in oil spills.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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Snezhana I AbarzhiDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8466-3084
Katepalli R SreenivasanTandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, NY 11201.ORCID 0000-0002-3943-6827

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Abstract

As a ubiquitous paradigm of instabilities and mixing that occur in instances as diverse as supernovae, plasma fusion, oil recovery, and nanofabrication, the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) problem is rightly regarded as important. The acceleration of the fluid medium in these instances often depends on time and space, whereas most past studies assume it to be constant or impulsive. Here, we analyze the symmetries of RT mixing for variable accelerations and obtain the scaling of correlations and spectra for classes of self-similar dynamics. RT mixing is shown to retain the memory of deterministic conditions for all accelerations, with the dynamics ranging from superballistic to subdiffusive. These results contribute to our understanding and control of the RT phenomena and reveal specific conditions under which Kolmogorov turbulence might be realized in RT mixing.

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AccelerationSpatio-Temporal Analysisgroup theoryinterfacial mixingRayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilitiesself-similar solutionsvariable acceleration

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PMCPMC9704740

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