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Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volume 12, Issues 1–3, July 1984, Pages 3-10, IN1-IN10, 11-18
Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

1.1. Liquids
An overview of Rayleigh-Taylor instability

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Abstract

The aim of this talk is to survey Rayleigh-Taylor instability, describing the phenomenology that occurs at a Taylor unstable interface, and reviewing attempts to understand these phenomena quantitatively.

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