NTSI
The Nonlinear Thin Shell Instability
An initially stable planar slab is perturbed from equilibrium
by warping it with a sine function. To excite the NTSI, this perturbation
must be of long wavelength (compared to the shell thickness) and of
large amplitude (again compared to the shell thickness). The series of
images shown above illustrate the evolution of the NTSI. Click on each
image for a closer look.
An MPEG (0.7Mb) of a smaller
NTSI simulation.
