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Using the relativistic equations of radiation hydrodynamics in the viscous limit, we analyze the boundary layers that develop between radiation-dominated jets and their environments. In this paper we present the solution for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Eric R. Coughlin , Mitchell C. Begelman

This paper investigates the stability of interfacial long waves in two-layer plane Couette flow using a nonlinear, nonlocal asymptotic model derived from the Navier-Stokes equations and valid for thin upper layers. Nonlocality enters…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-17 Xingyu Wang , Pierre Germain , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

The stability of current sheets in collisionless relativistic pair plasma was studied via two-dimensional two-fluid relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with vanishing internal friction between fluids. In particular, we investigated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Maxim V. Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov

We study the fully nonlinear, nonlocal dynamics of two-dimensional multicomponent vesicles in a shear flow with matched viscosity of the inner and outer fluids. Using a nonstiff, pseudo-spectral boundary integral method, we investigate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-01 Kai Liu , Gary R. Marple , Shuwang Li , Shravan Veerapaneni , John Lowengrub

This paper investigates the well-posedness and Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability for a system of two-dimensional nonhomogeneous incompressible fluid, subject to the non-slip and Naiver-slip boundary conditions at the outer and inner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Liang Li , Quan Wang

The interplay between viscoelasticity and inertia in dilute polymer solutions at high deformation rates can result in inertio-elastic instabilities. The nonlinear evolution of these instabilities generates a state of turbulence with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-25 Sami Yamani , Yashasvi Raj , Tamer A. Zaki , Gareth H. McKinley , Irmgard Bischofberger

Ambient interstellar material may become entrained in outflows from massive stars as a result of shear flow instabilities. We study the linear theory of the Kelvin - Helmholtz instability, the simplest example of shear flow instability, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Watson , E. G. Zweibel , F. Heitsch , E. Churchwell

This second part of the study develops a geometric and asymptotic description of how surface tension governs the modulational stability of interfacial waves in a two-layer fluid. Extending the analytical framework of Part~I, surface tension…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-18 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

Global linear stability analysis of a self-similar solution describing the interaction of a relativistic shell with an ambient medium is performed. The solution is shown to be unstable to convective Rayleigh-Taylor modes having angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Amir Levinson

The present work is devoted to the analysis of the internal structure of relativistic jets under the condition that the velocity of the plasma flow at the jet axis vanishes. It is shown that in spite of the seemingly fundamental difference…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 V. S. Beskin , F. A. Kniazev , K. Chatterjee

Relativistic outflows emanating from active galactic nuclei can extend up to kiloparsec scales in length, displaying a variety of complex morphologies. This study explores the intricate morphologies of such relativistic jets, mainly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Nikita Upreti , Bhargav Vaidya , Amit Shukla

When a thin stream of aqueous sodium alginate is extruded into a reacting calcium chloride bath, it polymerizes into a soft elastic tube that spontaneously forms helical coils due to the ambient fluid drag. We quantify the onset of this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-04 Aditi Chakrabarti , Salem Al-Mosleh , L. Mahadevan

Jets often have a helical structure containing ejected plasma that is both hot and also cooler and denser than the corona. Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain how jets are primarily attributed to a magnetic reconnection between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Reetika Joshi , Brigitte Schmieder , Guillaume Aulanier , Véronique Bommier , Ramesh Chandra

This paper investigates the non-linear dynamics of horizontal shear instability in an incompressible, stratified and rotating fluid in the non-traditional $f$-plane, i.e. with the full Coriolis acceleration, using direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Camille Moisset , Paul Billant , Junho Park , Stéphane Mathis

An axisymmetric MHD model is examined analytically to illustrate some key aspects of the physics of hot and magnetized outflows which originate in the near environment of a central gravitating body. By analyzing the asymptotical behaviour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sauty , K. Tsinganos , E. Trussoni

Context. Modern high resolution observations allow to view closer into the objects powering relativistic jets. This is especially the case for SS433, an X-ray binary from which a precessing jet is observed down to the sub-parsec scale.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Remi Monceau-Baroux , Rony Keppens , Zakaria Meliani , Oliver Porth

This work investigates the morphological stability of a soft body composed of two heavy elastic layers, attached to a rigid surface and subjected only to the bulk gravity force. Using theoretical and computational tools, we characterize the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-21 Davide Riccobelli , Pasquale Ciarletta

We carry out an extensive linear stability analysis of magnetized cylindrical jets in a global framework. Foregoing the commonly invoked force-free limit, we focus on the small-scale, internal instabilities triggered in regions of the jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Upasana Das , Mitchell C. Begelman

Current observations have shown that astrophysical jets reveal strong signs of radial structure. They suggest that the inner region of the jet, the jet spine, consists of a low-density, fast-moving gas, while the outer region of the jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Walg , A. Achterberg , S. Markoff , R. Keppens , Z. Meliani

We first develop a new mathematical model for two-fluid interface motion, subjected to the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in two-dimensional fluid flow, which in its simplest form, is given by $ h_{tt}(\alpha,t) = A g\, \Lambda h -…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Steve Shkoller