Author： Wang Yanjin
Publisher： Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISSN： 0360-5302
Source： Communications in Partial Differential Equations, Vol.37, Iss.11, 2012-01, pp. : 1967-2028
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Abstract
We consider the free boundary problem for two layers of immiscible, viscous, incompressible fluid in a uniform gravitational field, lying above a rigid bottom in a three-dimensional horizontally periodic setting. The effect of surface tension is either taken into account at both free boundaries or neglected at both. We are concerned with the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, so we assume that the upper fluid is heavier than the lower fluid. When the surface tension at the free internal interface is below a critical value, which we identify, we establish that the problem under consideration is nonlinearly unstable.
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