We calculate a nonlinear growth of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the exploding red supergiant stars with a two-dimensional hydrodynamical code, and examine how the extent of mixing depends on the progenitor's core mass and the envelope mass. The results are compared with the observations of type II-P supernovae and the recent type Il-b supernova 1993J.
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