The Rayleigh-Taylor instability

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1095-1098

  Piriz, A R ^a   Cortazar O D ^a   Lopez Cela J J ^a   Tahir, N A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

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EID: 33845751999     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.2358158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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23. Hide (Ref. 19) independently found the same formula by using a variational method. After this publication Ride (Ref. 20) pointed out that Hide's derivation of Eq. (23) was in error and published a corrected version that resulted in a less accurate approximation than Eq. (23). More recently, Mikaelian (Ref. 16) obtained Eq. (23) by using a moment equation approach that used the inviscid velocity field approximation that we have used here and that was also used by Hide and Ride [Eq. (19) with q ≈ k]. Mikaelian has shown that the other approximations introduced in Hide's derivation were consistent with using such a velocity field and demonstrated that Hide's derivation was actually correct.