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SUBMITTER: Kadau K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC395886 | biostudies-other | 2004 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040405 16
Nanohydrodynamics simulations, hydrodynamics on the nanometer and nanosecond scale by molecular dynamics simulations for up to 100 million particles, are performed on the latest generation of supercomputers. Such simulations exhibit Rayleigh-Taylor instability, the mixing of a heavy fluid on top of a light in the presence of a gravitational field, initiated by thermal fluctuations at the interface, leading to the chaotic regime in the long-time evolution of the mixing process. The early-time beh ...[more]