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We establish the stability/instability criteria for the stratified compressible magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) problem in Lagrangian coordinates. More precisely, under the stability condition \(\varXi <1\) (under such case, the third component of impressed magnetic field is not zero), we show the existence of a unique solution with an algebraic decay in time for the (compressible) magnetic RT problem with proper initial data. The stability result in particular shows that a sufficiently large (impressed) vertical magnetic field can inhibit the growth of the RT instability. On the other hand, if \(\varXi >1\), there exists an unstable solution to the magnetic RT problem in the Hadamard sense. This in particular shows that the RT instability still occurs when the strength of an magnetic field is small or the magnetic field is horizontal. Moreover, by analyzing the stability condition in the magnetic RT problem for vertical magnetic fields, we can observe that the compressibility destroys the stabilizing effect of magnetic fields in the vertical direction. Fortunately, the instability in the vertical direction can be inhibited by the stabilizing effect of the pressure, which also plays an important role in the proof of the stability of the magnetic RT problem. In addition, we extend the results for the magnetic RT problem to the compressible viscoelastic RT problem, and find that the stabilizing effect of elasticity is stronger than that of the magnetic fields.
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Jiang, F., Jiang, S. Nonlinear stability and instability in the Rayleigh–Taylor problem of stratified compressible MHD fluids. Calc. Var. 58, 29 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-018-1477-9
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