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Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Flames: Thin and Thick
Elizabeth P. Hicks
A Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) unstable flame is a thin burning interface sandwiched between heavy fuel and light ash layers. RT unstable flames play an important role in complex systems l…
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Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Flames: the Effect of Two-Mode Coupling
Mingxuan Liu, Elizabeth P. Hicks
In the classical Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability, initial conditions are forgotten and the growth of the mixing layer becomes self-similar when short wavelength modes couple to ge…