Rayleigh-Taylor instability in drop impact experiments

Victor Lherm (1) , Renaud Deguen (2) , Thierry Alboussière (1) , Maylis Landeau (3)

1 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement
2 ISTerre - Institut des Sciences de la Terre
3 IPGP (UMR_7154) - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2020 American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original video is available online at the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2020.GFM.V0019.

Keywords: Physics - Fluid Dynamics; Physics - Geophysics

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Victor Lherm, Renaud Deguen, Thierry Alboussière, Maylis Landeau. Rayleigh-Taylor instability in drop impact experiments. Physical Review Fluids, 2021, 6, pp.1281-1293. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.110501⟩. ⟨insu-03584326⟩