title: Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability of rotating inviscid fluids.
abstract: It is demonstrated theoretically that the nonlinear stage of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability can be retarded at arbitrary Atwood numbers in a rotating system with the axis of rotation normal to the acceleration of the interface between two uniform inviscid fluids. The Coriolis force provides an effective restoring force on the perturbed interface, and the uniform rotation will always decrease the nonlinear saturation amplitude of the interface at any disturbance wavelength.
authors: SKLTCS and CAPT, Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. jjtao@pku.edu.cn
authors: J J
authors: JJ
authors: Tao
authors: X T
authors: XT
authors: He
authors: W H
authors: WH
authors: Ye
authors: F H
authors: FH
authors: Busse
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012212:Rheology / Q000379:methods*; D012399:Rotation