Linear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for viscous, compressible fluids

Details Linear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for viscous, compressible fluids Linear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for viscous, compressible fluids

2009-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/0911.4703v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

33 pages

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We study the equations obtained from linearizing the compressible Navier-Stokes equations around a steady-state profile with a heavier fluid lying above a lighter fluid along a planar interface, i.e. a Rayleigh-Taylor instability. We consider the equations with or without surface tension, with the viscosity allowed to depend on the density, and in both periodic and non-periodic settings. In the presence of viscosity there is no natural variational framework for constructing growing mode solutions to the linearized problem. We develop a general method of studying a family of modified variational problems in order to produce maximal growing modes. Using these growing modes, we construct smooth (when restricted to each fluid domain) solutions to the linear equations that grow exponentially in time in Sobolev spaces. We then prove an estimate for arbitrary solutions to the linearized equations in terms of the fastest possible growth rate for the growing modes. In the periodic setting, we show that sufficiently small periodicity avoids instability in the presence of surface tension.

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