Recent experiments by Wolf have demonstrated the possibility of dynamically stabilizing the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of the interface between two heavy fluids. This problem is considered and it is shown quite generally that both viscosity and interfacial tension are necessary to stabilize the short wavelength perturbations. As an example the experimental results obtained with a liquid-air interface are reproduced.
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Troyon et al. (1971) studied this question.
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