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The redistribution of angular momentum is a long standing problem in our understanding of protoplanetary disk (PPD) evolution. The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered a likely mechanism. We present the results of a study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Donna Rodgers-Lee , Tom P. Ray , Turlough P. Downes

In collisionless and weakly collisional plasmas, such as hot accretion flows onto compact objects, the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can differ significantly from the standard (collisional) MRI. In particular, pressure anisotropy with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Jonathan Squire , Eliot Quataert , Matthew W. Kunz

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been suggested to have an important role on the dynamics of accretion disks. We investigate MRI as an alternative way for guiding the plasma from the disk to the funnel flow at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-08 S. Dogan , E. R. Pekunlu

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been suggested to lead a rapid growth of the magnetic field in core collapse supernovae and produce departures from spherical syymmetry that can be important in determining the explosion mechanism. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. Urpin

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) triggers turbulence and enables outward transport of angular momentum in hydrodynamically stable accretion discs. By using the WKB approximation and methods of singular function theory, we resolve two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been extensively studied in circular magnetized disks, and its ability to drive accretion has been demonstrated in a multitude of scenarios. There are reasons to expect eccentric magnetized disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Chi-Ho Chan , Tsvi Piran , Julian H. Krolik

The outer protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can be subject to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and the vertical shear instability (VSI). While both processes can drive turbulence in the disk, existing numerical simulations have studied…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai

We investigate the evolution of hydromagnetic perturbations in a small section of accretion disks. It is known that molecular viscosity is negligible in accretion disks. Hence, it has been argued that a mechanism, known as Magnetorotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Sujit Kumar Nath , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We investigate the evolution of hydromagnetic perturbations in a small section of accretion disks. It is known that molecular viscosity is negligible in accretion disks. Hence, it has been argued that Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 Sujit K. Nath , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) occurs when a weak magnetic field destabilises a rotating, electrically conducting fluid with inwardly increasing angular velocity. The MRI is essential to astrophysical disk theory where the shear is…

We examine the properties of strongly magnetized accretion discs in a global framework, with particular focus on the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities such as the magnetorotational instability (MRI). Work by Pessah and Psaltis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-13 Upasana Das , Mitchell C. Begelman , Geoffroy Lesur

We investigate numerically the Princeton magneto-rotational instability (MRI) experiment and the effect of conducting axial boundaries or endcaps. MRI is identified and found to reach a much higher saturation than for insulating endcaps.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-04 Xing Wei , Hantao Ji , Jeremy Goodman , Fatima Ebrahimi , Erik Gilson , Frank Jenko , Karl Lackner

(abriged) MRI turbulence is a leading mechanism for the generation of an efficient turbulent transport of angular momentum in an accretion disk through a turbulent viscosity effect. It is believed that the same process could also transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 G. Lesur , P-Y. Longaretti

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a crucial role for cosmic structure formation by enabling turbulence in Keplerian disks which would be otherwise hydrodynamically stable. With particular focus on MRI experiments with liquid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is considered to be a promising mechanism to amplify the magnetic field in fast rotating protoneutron stars. In contrast to accretion disks, radial buoyancy driven by entropy and lepton fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jerome Guilet , Ewald Mueller

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to be a powerful source of turbulence and momentum transport in astrophysical accretion discs, but obtaining observational evidence of its operation is challenging. Recently, laboratory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-15 A. Guseva , A. P. Willis , R. Hollerbach , M. Avila

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a key role in the formation of stars and black holes, by enabling outward angular momentum transport in accretion disks. The use of combined axial and azimuthal magnetic fields allows the…

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) (Balbus and Hawley 1991, Hawley and Balbus 1991) transports angular momentum radially outwards in accretion discs through the distortion of the magnetic field lines that connect fluid elements. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

We consider a Taylor-Dean-type flow of an electrically conducting liquid in an annulus between two infinitely long perfectly conducting cylinders subject to a generally helical magnetic field. The cylinders are electrically connected…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-01 Jānis Priede

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to be a powerful source of turbulence in Keplerian accretion disks. Motivated by recent laboratory experiments, we study the MRI driven by an azimuthal magnetic field in an electrically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-21 Anna Guseva , Ashley P. Willis , Rainer Hollerbach , Marc Avila