Flow Instability: Rayleigh Taylor

Presentations

• Comparison of Reynolds-Averaged and Analytical Self-Similar Solutions of Four-Equation Models of Small Atwood Number Rayleigh–Taylor Mixing Driven by Power-Law Accelerations

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 8:00 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 8:13 AM

  Presenters

  • Oleg Schilling

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Oleg Schilling

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Investigation of multi-component mixing in the three-layer Rayleigh-Taylor instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 8:13 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 8:26 AM

  Presenters

  • Quinton Dzurny

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Quinton Dzurny

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Devesh Ranjan

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Prasoon Suchandra

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Samuel Petter

    Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Timescales of energy transfer in self-similar Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 8:26 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 8:39 AM

  Presenters

  • Chian Yeh Goh

    Caltech

  Authors

  • Chian Yeh Goh

    Caltech

  • Guillaume Blanquart

    Caltech

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• Statistical Characterization of Energy Growth in Rayleigh–Taylor Instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 8:39 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 8:52 AM

  Presenters

  • Marildo Kola

    University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Marildo Kola

    University of Michigan

  • Aaron S. Towne

    University of Michigan

  • Daniel M. Israel

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Michigan SPARC

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• Analysis of nonlocality in turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 8:52 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 9:05 AM

  Publication: 1. Lavacot, D. L. O.-L., Mani, A., & Morgan, B. E. (2025). Atwood effects on nonlocality of the scalar transport closure in three-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor mixing. arXiv:2505.09850.<br>2. Lavacot, D. L. O.-L., Morgan, B.E., Mani, A. (In preparation). Development and assessment of turbulence models for Rayleigh-Taylor mixing using the macroscopic forcing method.

  Presenters

  • Dana Lynn Lavacot

    Stanford University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Dana Lynn Lavacot

    Stanford University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Ali Mani

    Stanford University

  • Brandon E Morgan

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Rayleigh–Taylor Instability Across Flow Regimes: A Study in the Knudsen–Mach Parameter Space

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 9:05 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 9:18 AM

  Presenters

  • Swapnil Majumder

    Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Swapnil Majumder

    Texas A&M University College Station

  • Daniel Livescu

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Sharath S Girimaji

    Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University, College Station,TX,US, Texas A&M University College Station

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• Effects of Lateral Domain Size on the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 9:18 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 9:31 AM

  Presenters

  • Rachel E Mead

    University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Rachel E Mead

    University of Michigan

  • Daniel M. Israel

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Michigan SPARC

  • Venkatramanan Raman

    University of Michigan

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• Effects of Surface Tension and Viscosity on Immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor Mixing

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 9:31 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 9:44 AM

  Presenters

  • Michael D Walker

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Michael D Walker

    Princeton University

  • Steven R Brill

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Britton J Olson

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Competing Mechanisms at Vibrated Interfaces of Density-Contrast Fluids

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 9:44 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 9:57 AM

  Publication: Preprint: arXiv:2505.23578

  Presenters

  • Tianyi Chu

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Tianyi Chu

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Benjamin Wilfong

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Timothy Koehler

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • Ryan M McMullen

    Sandia National Laboratories

  • Spencer H. Bryngelson

    Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Numerical study on nonmonotonic fingering dynamics against flow rate for a reactive viscous fingering with Marangoni convection

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 9:57 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 10:10 AM

  Presenters

  • Shoichiro Takahashi

    Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

  Authors

  • Shoichiro Takahashi

    Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

  • Yuichiro Nagatsu

    Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

  • Ching-Yao Chen

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  • Ryuta X. Suzuki

    Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

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• Effects of Atwood number and isothermal stratification strength on multi-mode three-dimensional compressible Rayleigh–Taylor instability

  ORAL

  Nov. 25, 2025, 10:10 AM – Nov. 25, 2025, 10:23 AM

  Presenters

  • Denis Aslangil

    Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Denis Aslangil

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Man Long Wong

    Stanford University

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