%0 Journal Article
%T Similarity of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Development on Scales from 1 mm to One Light Year
%A Michael C. Kelley
%A Eugene Dao
%A Carolyn Kuranz
%A Hans Stenbaek-Nielsen
%J International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics
%P 173-176
%@ 2161-4725
%D 2011
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ijaa.2011.14022
%X In this paper, we describe three different phenomena occurring on scales of 1 mm, 100 km, and almost a light year. The smallest scale is a laboratory experiment. The intermediate scale is a rocket-borne space experiment and the largest is an exploding star. In each case, deceleration creates a situation that is unstable to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The similarity exists in the spatial and in the Fourier domains; that is, not only are there obvious spatial similarities but the power spectra of the two phenomena are also nearly identical. The data compare favorably to published simulations.
%K Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
%K Decelerating Fluid
%K Exploding Star
%K Active Experiment
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=16373