Rayleigh-Taylor instability at spherical interfaces of incompressible fluids<xref rid="cpb_27_2_025206fn1" ref-type="fn">*</xref> <fn id="cpb_27_2_025206fn1"> <label>*</label> <p>Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11275031, 11475034, 11575033, 11574390, and 11274026) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2013CB834100 and 2013CBA01504).</p> </fn>

Rayleigh-Taylor instability at spherical interfaces of incompressible fluids* *

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11275031, 11475034, 11575033, 11574390, and 11274026) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2013CB834100 and 2013CBA01504).

Guo Hong-Yu^{1, 2}, Wang Li-Feng^{2, 3}, Ye Wen-Hua^{2, 3, †}, Wu Jun-Feng², Li Ying-Jun^{4, ‡}, Zhang Wei-Yan^{2, 3}

(color online) The coefficients S₂₁ (a) and S₁₂ (b) versus the normalized shell thickness for mode number l = 2, 5, 30. The Atwood numbers are A₁ = 0.9 and A₂ = −0.9. Mikaelian’s planar result^[13] is plotted for comparison.