Rayleigh–Taylor instability
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title:
Rayleigh–Taylor instability
text:
The Rayleigh–Taylor instability, or RT instability, is an instability of an interface between two fluids of different densities which occurs when the lighter fluid is pushing the heavier fluid. Examples include the behavior of water suspended above oil in the gravity of Earth, mushroom clouds like those from volcanic eruptions and atmospheric nuclear explosions, supernova explosions in which expanding core gas is accelerated into denser shell gas, instabilities in plasma fusion reactors and iner
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description:
Unstable behavior of two contacting fluids of different densities
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%E2%80%93Taylor_instability
date created:
2005-04-16T16:55:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T09:09:34Z
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