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In this paper, we investigate the Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid flows rotating with a constant angular velocity, and evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. First we construct the Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solutions with a denser fluid lying above the free interface with the second fluid, then we turn to an analysis of the equations obtained from linearization around such a steady state. In the presence of uniform rotation, there is no natural variational framework for constructing growing mode solutions to the linearized problem. Using the general method of studying a family of modified variational problems introduced in [1], we construct normal mode solutions that grow exponentially in time with rate like e(t root c vertical bar xi vertical bar-1), where is the spatial frequency of the normal mode and the constant c depends on some physical parameters of the two layer fluids. A Fourier synthesis of these normal mode solutions allows us to construct solutions that grow arbitrarily quickly in the Sobolev space H-k, and leads to an ill-posedness result for the linearized problem. Moreover, from the analysis we see that rotation diminishes the growth of instability. Using the pathological solutions, we then demonstrate the ill-posedness for the original non-linear problem in some sense.
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ACTA MATHEMATICA SCIENTIA
ISSN: 0252-9602
CN: 42-1227/O
Year: 2015
Issue: 6
Volume: 35
Page: 1359-1385
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ESI Discipline: MATHEMATICS;
ESI HC Threshold:86
JCR Journal Grade:3
CAS Journal Grade:3
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WoS CC Cited Count: 22
SCOPUS Cited Count: 21
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 4
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