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    Wan-hai Liu, Xiang Wang, Wen-fang Ma. Surface Tension Effect on Harmonics of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics , 2018, 31(1): 39-44. DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/31/cjcp1703056
    Citation: Wan-hai Liu, Xiang Wang, Wen-fang Ma. Surface Tension Effect on Harmonics of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics , 2018, 31(1): 39-44. DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/31/cjcp1703056

    Surface Tension Effect on Harmonics of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

    • Using the method of the parameter expansion up to the third order, explicitly investigates surface tension effect on harmonics at weakly nonlinear stage in Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) for arbitrary Atwood numbers and compares the results with those of classical RTI within the framework of the third-order weakly nonlinear theory. It is found that surface tension strongly reduces the linear growth rate of time, resulting in mild growth of the amplitude of the fundamental mode, and changes amplitudes of the second and third harmonics, as is expressed as a tension factor coupling in amplitudes of the harmonics. On the one hand, surface tension can either decrease or increase the space amplitude; on the other hand, surface tension can also change their phases for some conditions which are explicitly determined.
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