Suppression of the Rayleigh{endash}Taylor instability through accretion
- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)
The nonlinear growth of the Rayleigh{endash}Taylor instability in an accelerated shell can be reduced by arranging for the shell to sweep up material as it moves. Momentum conservation preferentially slows the thinner {open_quote}{open_quote}bubble{close_quote}{close_quote} portions of the perturbed shell, which lead the {open_quote}{open_quote}spikes.{close_quote}{close_quote} Results are presented from calculations based on the spherical thin-shell model. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 253488
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 3; ISSN PHPAEN; ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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