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Description	This figure represents the evolution of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability from small wavelength perturbations at the interface (a) which grow into the ubiquitous mushroom shaped spikes (fluid structures of heavy into light fluid) and bubbles (fluid structures of light into heavy fluid) (b) and these fluid structures interact due to bubble merging and competition (c) eventually developing into a mixing region (d). Here ρ2 represents the heavy fluid and ρ1 represents the light fluid. Gravity is acting downward and the system is RT unstable.
Author or copyright owner	Michael S. Roberts
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Roberts, Michael S. , Dissertation - Experiments and Simulations on the Incompressible, Rayleigh - Taylor Instability with Small Wavelength Initial Perturbations
Date of publication	2012
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Rayleigh–Taylor instability
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	The evolution of the four stages of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability
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