Published In

Physical Review E

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-13-2003

Subjects

Fluid mechanics -- Mathematical models, Anisotropy, Interfaces (Physical sciences)

Abstract

We present linearized stability analyses of the effect of slow anisotropic compression or expansion on the growth of perturbations at accelerated fluid interfaces in both planar and spherical geometries. The interface separates two fluids with different densities, compressibilities, and compression rates. We show that a perturbation of large mode number on a spherical interface grows at precisely the same rate as a similar perturbation on a planar interface subjected to the same normal and transverse compression rates.

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This is the publisher's final pdf. Article appears in Physical Review E (http://pre.aps.org/) and is copyrighted by APS Journals (http://publish.aps.org/)

*At the time of publication John Ramshaw was affiliated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.67.056304

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/7684

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