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Rayleigh-Taylor Instability — Heavy Fluid over Light
A heavy fluid resting on a lighter one is gravitationally unstable: any perturbation grows at rate γ = √(Agk), curling into mushroom-shaped spikes and bubbles. Tune the Atwood number, gravity, surface tension and viscosity and watch the live growth-rate curve.
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