Gravity Wave Phenomena

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Gravity wave phenomena is a familiar process to virtually everyone.   The most commen example is water waves at the beach.  The first example here is a similar case, in which gravity waves are sloshing in a tank with a sloping sidewall.   Another gravitational instability is the slumping of high density fluid into low density fluid.  The second example here is very similar to the Rayleigh- Taylor instability examples except that the initial condition is a vertical slab of cold dense gas surrounded by slabs of warmer low density gas.

 

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