Convective Turbulence 1 Rayleigh-Taylor Convection
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and the gravitational acceleration g = −gẑ. While this a configuration can satisfy hydrostatic balance, infinitesimal perturbations on the interface separating the two fluids at z = H/2 will grow exponentially, leading to overturning. The energy available for overturning can be estimated by considering the fluid energetics. The average potential energy (per unit volume) of the system described by (1) is
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