Magnetically induced Rayleigh-Taylor instability under rotation: Comparison of experimental and theoretical results

Scase, Matthew; Baldwin, Kyle; Hill, Richard

Abstract

© 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Our theoretical work has shown that rotating a Rayleigh-Taylor-unstable two-layer stratification about a vertical axis slows the development of the instability under gravity and can stabilize axisymmetric modes indefinitely. Here we compare theoretical predictions directly with our experiments on a rotating two-layer system which is made unstable by magnetic forces applied using a superconducting magnet.

Citation

Scase, M., Baldwin, K., & Hill, R. (2020). Magnetically induced Rayleigh-Taylor instability under rotation: Comparison of experimental and theoretical results. Physical Review E, 102(4), Article 043101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.043101

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 31, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Oct 2, 2020
• Publication Date: Oct 2, 2020
• Deposit Date: Apr 8, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 17, 2020
• Journal: Physical Review E
• Print ISSN: 2470-0045
• Electronic ISSN: 2470-0053
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 4
• Article Number: 043101
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.043101
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4271141
• Publisher URL: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.043101