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Retarding viscous Rayleigh-Taylor mixing by an optimized additional mode

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Xie, CY 
Tao, JJ 
Sun, ZL 
Li, J 

Abstract

The Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing induced by random interface disturbances between two incompressible viscous fluids is simulated numerically. The ensemble averaged spike velocity is found to be remarkably retarded when the random interface disturbances are superimposed with an optimized additional mode. The mode's wavenumber is selected to be large enough to avoid enhancing the dominance of long-wavelength modes, but not so large that its saturated spike and bubble velocities are too small to stimulate a growing effective density-gradient layer suppressing the long-wavelength modes. Such an optimized suppressing mode is expected to be found in the RT mixing including other diffusion processes, e.g., concentration diffusion and thermal diffusion.

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0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering

Journal Title

Physical Review E

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Journal ISSN

2470-0045
2470-0053

Volume Title

95

Publisher

American Physical Society
Sponsorship
This work has been supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Grant No. 11225209) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11490553 and No. 11521091).