Study of three-dimensional Rayleigh--Taylor instability in compressible fluids through level set method and parallel computation

Journal Article · Sun Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1993 · Physics of Fluids A; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858816· OSTI ID:6237087

Li, X L ^[1]

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1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 (United States)

Computation of three-dimensional (3-D) Rayleigh--Taylor instability in compressible fluids is performed on a MIMD computer. A second-order TVD scheme is applied with a fully parallelized algorithm to the 3-D Euler equations. The computational program is implemented for a 3-D study of bubble evolution in the Rayleigh--Taylor instability with varying bubble aspect ratio and for large-scale simulation of a 3-D random fluid interface. The numerical solution is compared with the experimental results by Taylor.

• DOE Contract Number: FG02-90ER25084
• OSTI ID: 6237087
• Journal Information: Physics of Fluids A; (United States), Journal Name: Physics of Fluids A; (United States) Vol. 5:8; ISSN PFADEB; ISSN 0899-8213
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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661300* -- Other Aspects of Physical Science-- (1992-)
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ASPECT RATIO
BUBBLES
COMPRESSIBLE FLOW
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS
FLUID FLOW
INSTABILITY
RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY