Browsing by Author "Plesset, Milton S."

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    Reply to Comments on “General Analysis of the Stability of Superposed Fluids”
    (The Physics of Fluids, 1982-05) Plesset, Milton S.; Prosperetti, Andrea
    Previous results by Plesset and Hsieh on the effects of compressibility for Rayleigh–Taylor instability are shown to be valid, and an alternative brief deduction is given.
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    The stability of an evaporating liquid surface
    (The Physics of Fluids, 1984-07) Prosperetti, Andrea; Plesset, Milton S.
    A linearized stability analysis is carried out for an evaporating liquid surface with a view of understanding some observations with highly superheated liquids. The analytical results of this study depend on the unperturbed temperature near the liquid surface. The absence of this data renders a comparison with experiment impossible. However, on the basis of several different assumptions for this temperature distribution, instabilities of the interface of a rapidly evaporating liquid are found for a range of wavenumbers of the surface wave perturbation. At large evaporating mass flow rates the instability is very strong with growth times of a millisecond or less. A discussion of the physical mechanism leading to the instability is given.