The growth rate of the compressible Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied in the presence of a background temperature gradient, Θ, using a normal mode analysis. The effect of Θ variation is examined for three interface types corresponding to combinations of the viscous properties of the fluids (inviscid-inviscid, viscous-viscous and viscous-inviscid) at different Atwood numbers, At, and, when ...

We study the coalescence of two drops of an ideal fluid driven by surface tension. The velocity of approach is taken to be zero and the dynamical effect of the outer fluid (usually air) is neglected. Our approximation is expected to be valid on scales larger than ℓ ν = ρν 2 /σ, which is 10nm for water. Using a high-precision boundary integral method, we show that the walls of the thin retractin...

Inviscid traveling waves are ghost-like phenomena that do not appear in reality because of their instability. However, they are the reason for the complexity of the traveling wave theory of reaction-diffusion equations and understanding them will help to resolve related puzzles. In this article, we obtain the existence, the uniqueness and the regularity of inviscid traveling waves under a gener...

Let F (z) = z−H(z) with order o(H(z)) ≥ 1 be a formal map from C to C and G(z) the formal inverse map of F (z). We first study the deformation Ft(z) = z − tH(z) of F (z) and its formal inverse Gt(z) = z + tNt(z). (Note that Gt=1(z) = G(z) when o(H(z)) ≥ 2.) We show that Nt(z) is the unique power series solution of a Cauchy problem of a PDE, from which we derive a recurrent formula for Gt(z). Se...

In [1], T. Clopeau, A. Mikelić, and R. Robert studied the inviscid limit of the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded domain subject to Navier friction-type boundary conditions. They proved that the inviscid limit satisfies the incompressible Euler equations and their result ultimately includes flows generated by bounded initial vorticities. Our purpose in this article is to ad...

This document provides a proof that the solutions to the convectively filtered Burgers equation, will converge to the entropy solution of the inviscid Burgers equation when certain restrictions are put on the initial conditions. It does so by first establishing convergence to a weak solution of the inviscid Burgers equation and then showing that the weak solution is the entropy solution. Then t...