What is certain and what is not so certain in our knowledge of Rayleigh-Taylor mixing?

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2013 Oct 21;371(2003):20130266. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0266. Print 2013 Nov 28.

Abstract

Past decades significantly advanced our understanding of Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing. We briefly review recent theoretical results and numerical modelling approaches and compare them with state-of-the-art experiments focusing the reader's attention on qualitative properties of RT mixing.

Keywords: Kolmogorov turbulence; Rayleigh–Taylor instability; group theory; high energy density plasmas; scaling invariance; turbulent mixing.