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Paper   IPM / P / 7150
School of Physics
  Title:   The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of Density Transition Layer
  Author(s): 
1.  A. Tavakoli
2.  D.D. Tskhakaya
  Status:   In Proceedings
  Proceeding: 1998 ICPP & 25th EPS Conf. On Contr. Fusion and Plasma Physics, Praha, 29 June-3 July. ECA, Vol. 22C (1998) 2121-2124
  No.:  0
  Year:  1998
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
New types of symmetry for the Rayleigh equation are found. For small Atwood number, an analytic solution is obtained for a smoothly varying density profile. It is shown that a transition layer with a finite width can undergo some kind of stratification.

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