Experimental study of Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Low atwood number liquid systems with single-mode perturbations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1263-1273

  Waddell, J T ^a   Niederhaus, C E ^a,b   Jacobs, J W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; GRAVITATION; OSCILLATIONS; RAILROAD TRACKS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); VIDEO CAMERAS;

ATWOOD NUMBER FLUID SYSTEMS;

FLUIDS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW STABILITY; GRAVITY; INTERNAL WAVE; STANDING WAVE;

EID: 0035340671     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1359762     Document Type: Article

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