QUANTUM EFFECTS ON THE RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY OF STRATIFIED FLUID/PLASMA THROUGH BRINKMAN POROUS MEDIA

Quantum effects on Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a stratified plasma layer through a Brinkman porous medium are investigated. The relation between square-normalized growth rate and square-normalized wave number in two algebraic equations is obtained and analyzed. We compare the instability of Brinkman's model with Darcy's model. The results show that Brinkman's model is more stable than Darcy's model, in spite of the fact that the final point for stability (quantum cutoff) of Brinkman's model is the same as that of Darcy's model.