Scase M M, Baldwin K A, Hill R J A
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
Phys Rev E. 2020 Oct;102(4-1):043101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.043101.
Our theoretical work has shown that rotating a Rayleigh-Taylor-unstable two-layer stratification about a vertical axis slows the development of the instability under gravity and can stabilize axisymmetric modes indefinitely. Here we compare theoretical predictions directly with our experiments on a rotating two-layer system which is made unstable by magnetic forces applied using a superconducting magnet.