Multiple eigenmodes of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability observed for a fluid interface with smoothly varying density. III. Excitation and nonlinear evolution

Physical Review. E
Zhengfeng Fan, Ming Dong

Abstract

A compressible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable flow with a diffuse interface where the density varies smoothly supports a multiplicity of unstable eigenmodes that grow exponentially in time. This paper studies two relevant problems in a two-dimensional (2-D) RT flow by use of multimode decomposition. The first one is the excitation of these modes by arbitrarily introduced infinitesimal perturbations. The initial amplitude of each mode is calculated by projecting the introduced perturbation into the eigenvector space, and the obtained initial amplitude can be used to predict the linear evolution of the perturbation accurately, as is confirmed by direct numerical simulations. If the initial perturbation includes pressure or velocity components, then in addition to the growth of the RT mode, a strong acoustic wave package would be radiated to the heavy fluid, whereas a mild acoustic wave package would be radiated to the light fluid. As the second problem, in order to reveal the interaction feature of the unstable normal modes in the nonlinear phase, we perform the multimode decomposition based on the instantaneous perturbation field under the Fourier transformation in the direction tangential to the interface. For the current case s...Continue Reading

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