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SUBMITTER: Alqatari S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673797 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alqatari Samar S Videbæk Thomas E TE Nagel Sidney R SR Hosoi A E AE Bischofberger Irmgard I
Science advances 20201118 47
The prevention of hydrodynamic instabilities can lead to important insights for understanding the instabilities' underlying dynamics. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability that arises when a dense fluid sinks into and displaces a lighter one is particularly difficult to arrest. By preparing a density inversion between two miscible fluids inside the thin gap separating two flat plates, we create a clean initial stationary interface. Under these conditions, we find that the instability is suppressed bel ...[more]