Evolution of a double-front Rayleigh-Taylor system using a graphics-processing-unit-based high-resolution thermal lattice-Boltzmann model

We study the turbulent evolution originated from a system subjected to a Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a double density at high resolution in a two-dimensional geometry using a highly optimized thermal lattice- Boltzmann code for GPUs. Our investigation’s initial condition, given by the superposition of three layers with three different densities, leads to the development of two Rayleigh-Taylor fronts that expand upward and downward and collide in the middle of the cell. By using high-resolution numerical data we highlight the effects induced by the collision of the two turbulent fronts in the long-time asymptotic regime. We also provide details on the optimized lattice-Boltzmann code that we have run on a cluster of GPUs.