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Numerical Simulation on Nonlinear Evolution of Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
CAO Qiwei, XIAO Delong, YANG Xianjun, WANG Jianguo
Chinese Journal of Computational Physics    2021, 38 (1): 5-15.   DOI: 10. 19596/ j. cnki. 1001-246x. 8237
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A 2D numerical simulation program is developed for nonlinear evolution of magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability(MRTI). Based on an ideal magnetohydrodynamic model, a 5th WENO scheme is employed to calculate MHD equations and a projection scheme is used to clean spurious magnetic field divergence. The method is validated with MRTI compared with theory of linear stability. It is shown that the vertical magnetic field suppresses evidently MRTI in both linear and nonlinear stages. The parallel magnetic field has weak effect on MRTI in linear stage. However, it reduces remarkably Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and overall instability in nonlinear regime. High order harmonic occurs in the nonlinear evolution of single mode, and many modes except fundamental modes and harmonic occur in the evolution of double modes. In MRT evolution of multi-mode seeds inverse cascade occur, which means that perturbations evolve from short wavelength to long wavelength in the nonlinear stage.

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