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It is demonstrated that the azimuthal magnetorotational instability (AMRI) also works with radially increasing rotation rates contrary to the standard magnetorotational instability for axial fields which requires negative shear. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-14 Guenther Rüdiger , Manfred Schultz , Marcus Gellert , Frank Stefani

The linear stability of MHD Taylor-Couette flows in axially unbounded cylinders is considered, for magnetic Prandtl number unity. Magnetic fields varying from purely axial to purely azimuthal are imposed, with a general helical field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Ruediger , M. Gellert , M. Schultz , R. Hollerbach

This review summarizes recent advances in the theoretical analysis of the stability of magnetized flows in a non-uniformly rotating layer of electrically conductive nanofluid, incorporating the effects of Brownian diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 M. I. Kopp , V. V. Yanovsky

We present a detailed study of localised magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) instabilities occuring in two--dimensional magnetized accretion disks. We model axisymmetric MHD disk tori, and solve the equations governing a two--dimensional magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 J. W. S. Blokland , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

We present a thorough numerical study on the MRI using the smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics method (SPMHD) with the geometric density average force expression (GDSPH). We perform shearing box simulations with different initial setups…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 R. Wissing , S. Shen , J. Wadsley , T. Quinn

We investigate the causality and the stability of the relativistic viscous magneto-hydrodynamics in the framework of the Israel-Stewart (IS) second-order theory, and also within a modified IS theory which incorporates the effect of magnetic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-02 Rajesh Biswas , Ashutosh Dash , Najmul Haque , Shi Pu , Victor Roy

We extend recently-developed mesh-free Lagrangian methods for numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to arbitrary anisotropic diffusion equations, including: passive scalar diffusion, Spitzer-Braginskii conduction and viscosity, cosmic ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-11 Philip F. Hopkins

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) is the most likely mechanism driving angular momentum transport in astrophysical disks. However, despite many efforts, a conclusive experimental evidence of MRI is still missing. Recently, performing 1D…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-31 A. Mishra , G. Mamatsashvili , F. Stefani

(abridged) Context: Turbulent diffusion of large-scale flows and magnetic fields play major roles in many astrophysical systems. Aims: Our goal is to compute turbulent viscosity and magnetic diffusivity, relevant for diffusing large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Petri J. Käpylä , Matthias Rheinhardt , Axel Brandenburg , Maarit J. Käpylä

Non-axisymmetric, flow-driven instabilities in the incompressible Hall-MHD model are studied in a differentially rotating cylindrical plasma. It is found that in the Hall-MHD regime, both whistler waves and ion-cyclotron waves can extract…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Alexandre Sainterme , Fatima Ebrahimi

The spectral stability of liquid metal differentially rotating in transverse magnetic field is studied numerically by solving the eigenvalue problem with rigid-wall boundary conditions. The equilibrium velocity profile used in calculations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-09 I. V. Khalzov , A. I. Smolyakov , V. I. Ilgisonis

We examine the linear stability analysis of a hot, dilute and differentially rotating plasma by considering anisotropic transport effects. In the dilute plasmas, the ion Larmor radius is small compared with its collisional mean free path.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-31 Ebru Devlen

We study the linear and non-linear development of the Kruskal-Schwarzchild Instability in a relativisitically expanding striped wind. This instability is the generalization of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the presence of a magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Ramandeep Gill , Jonathan Granot , Yuri Lyubarsky

We are concerned with the uniform regularity estimates of solutions to the two dimensional compressible non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with the no-slip boundary condition on velocity in the half plane. Under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Xiufang Cui , Shengxin Li , Feng Xie

The appearance of eruptive space plasma processes, e.g., in eruptive flares as observed in the solar atmosphere, is usually assumed to be caused by magnetic reconnection. The process of magnetic reconnection is often connected with singular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-07 Dieter Nickeler , Marian Karlicky , Miroslav Barta

The magnetorotational instability is thought to play an important role in enabling accretion in sufficiently ionized astrophysical disks. The rate at which MRI-driven turbulence transports angular momentum is related to both the strength of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-26 Gareth C. Murphy , Martin E. Pessah

The instability of a quasi-Kepler flow in dissipative Taylor-Couette systems under the presence of an homogeneous axial magnetic field is considered with focus to the excitation of nonaxisymmetric modes and the resulting angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Gellert , G. Rüdiger , M. Schultz

The magnetic Reynolds number R_M, is defined as the product of a characteristic scale and associated flow speed divided by the microphysical magnetic diffusivity. For laminar flows, R_M also approximates the ratio of advective to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric G. Blackman , George B. Field

The magnetorotational (MRI) dynamo has long been considered one of the possible drivers of turbulent angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks. However, various numerical results suggest that this dynamo may be difficult…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-12 A. Riols , F. Rincon , C. Cossu , G. Lesur , G. I. Ogilvie , P-Y. Longaretti

Magnetic helicity is a quantity that underpins many theories of magnetic relaxation in electrically conducting fluids, both laminar and turbulent. Although much theoretical effort has been expended on magnetic fields that are everywhere…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Sauli Lindberg , David MacTaggart