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Molecular Dynamics Study of Rayleigh-Plateau Instability at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

kaityo256 / rp-instability-data

Molecular dynamicsCC BY 4.0
Updated: 2026-07-24

Overview

Data obtained by molecular dynamics simulations on the dispersion relation of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability

URL
https://isspns-gitlab.issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kaityo256/rt-instability-data
DOI
10.1103/1m7q-lfwy
Citations
1 (OpenAlex, as of 2026-10-05)
Authors
Shunta Kikuchi, Hiroshi Watanabe
License
CC BY 4.0
Keywords
Rayleigh-Plateau instabilityliquid-liquid interfaceinterfacial instabilitydroplet breakupinterfacial tensionmolecular dynamics simulation (keywords of the paper, from OpenAlex)
Category
Molecular dynamics
Contact
hwatanabe__at__appi.keio.ac.jp (Please replace __at__ with @.)

Paper and citation

If you use this data, please cite the following paper.

Shunta Kikuchi and Hiroshi Watanabe, "Molecular dynamics study of Rayleigh-Plateau instability at liquid-liquid interfaces", Physical Review Fluids 11(2) (2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/1m7q-lfwy

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Show BibTeX
@article{Kikuchi_2026, title={Molecular dynamics study of Rayleigh-Plateau instability at liquid-liquid interfaces}, volume={11}, ISSN={2469-990X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/1m7q-lfwy}, DOI={10.1103/1m7q-lfwy}, number={2}, journal={Physical Review Fluids}, publisher={American Physical Society (APS)}, author={Kikuchi, Shunta and Watanabe, Hiroshi}, year={2026}, month=Feb }

Bibliographic details and the open-access link are from OpenAlex; the BibTeX is from doi.org (as registered by the publisher).

Links

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README

Simulation data of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability

About

This repository contains all the raw data related to the following paper which investigated the Rayleigh-Plateau instability using molecular dynamics simulations.

  • S. Kikuchi and H. Watanabe, "Molecular Dynamics Study of Rayleigh-Plateau Instability at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces", Phys. Rev. Fluid, vol. 11, p. 023901, (2026). – Published 4 February, 2026
  • https://doi.org/10.1103/1m7q-lfwy
  • arXiv:2507.13786

Folder Structure

Each folder name corresponds to the figure number in the paper.

├── README.md
├── LICENSE
└── fig
    ├── fig05
    ├── fig06
    ├── fig07
    ├── fig08
    ├── fig09
    ├── fig10
    ├── fig12
    └── fig13

Extentions of files

  • *.dat Data (output) file
  • *.plt Plot file for Gnuplot
  • *.pdf PDF files generated from the data

How to generate figures

You can generate the corresponding plot by running gnuplot in each directory.

For example, executing the following command in the fig/fig12 directory will create fig12.pdf.

cd fig/fig12
gnuplot fig12.plt

Contact

  • Hiroshi Watanabe
  • hwatanabe__at__appi.keio.ac.jp

Please replace __at__ by @.

License

CC-BY 4.0

We appreciate your citing our paper when you publish the results using our data.

Source: https://isspns-gitlab.issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kaityo256/rt-instability-data README

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UpdatedLast updated: 2026-07-24 ()