RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY FOR COMPRESSIBLE ROTATING FLOWS

doi:10.1016/S0252-9602(15)30060-6

Abstract

Abstract:

In this paper, we investigate the Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid flows rotating with a constant angular velocity, and evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. First we construct the Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solutions with a denser fluid lying above the free interface with the second fluid, then we turn to an analysis of the equations obtained from linearization around such a steady state. In the presence of uniform rotation, there is no natural variational framework for constructing growing mode solutions to the linearized problem. Using the general method of studying a family of modified variational problems introduced in e^t√c|ξ|-1,where ξ is the spatial frequency of the normal mode and the constant c depends on some physical parameters of the two layer fluids. A Fourier synthesis of these normal mode solutions allows us to construct solutions that grow arbitrarily quickly in the Sobolev space H^k, and leads to an ill-posedness result for the linearized problem. Moreover, from the analysis we see that rotation diminishes the growth of instability. Using the pathological solutions, we then demonstrate the ill-posedness for the original non-linear problem in some sense.

Key words: Rayleigh-Taylor instability, rotation, Hadamard sense

CLC Number:

35L65

Ran DUAN, Fei JIANG, Fei JIANG. RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY FOR COMPRESSIBLE ROTATING FLOWS[J].Acta mathematica scientia,Series B, 2015, 35(6): 1359-1385.

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