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The interaction of differential rotation and toroidal fields that are current-free in the gap between two corotating axially unbounded cylinders is considered. It is shown that nonaxisymmetric perturbations are unstable if the rotation rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Ruediger , M. Gellert , M. Schultz , R. Hollerbach , F. Stefani

Layered accretion is one of the inevitable ingredients in protoplanetary disks when disk turbulence is excited by magnetorotational instabilities (MRIs). In the accretion, disk surfaces where MRIs fully operate have a high value of disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Taku Takeuchi

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a weakly ionized, differentially rotating, magnetized plasma disk is investigated in the multi-fluid framework. The disk is threaded by a uniform vertical magnetic field and charge is carried by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. P. Pandey , Mark Wardle

We venture for the comparison between growth rates for magnetorotational instability (MRI) and hydrodynamics instability in the presence of an extra force in the local Keplerian accretion flow. The underlying model is described by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-27 Subham Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Resistivity and viscosity have a significant role in establishing the energy levels in turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in local astrophysical disk models. This study uses the Athena code to characterize the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Jacob B. Simon , John F. Hawley

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the nonlinear evolution of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) with a non-zero Ohmic resistivity. The properties of the saturated state depend on the initial magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Timothy P. Fleming , James M. Stone , John F. Hawley

Turbulent motion driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to provide an anomalous viscosity strong enough to account for observed accretion rates in protostellar accretion disks. In the first of two papers, we perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Wayne O'Keeffe , Turlough P. Downes

In preparation for an experimental study of magnetorotational instability (MRI) in liquid metal, we present non-ideal two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the nonlinear evolution of MRI in the experimental geometry. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wei Liu , Jeremy Goodman , Hantao Ji

We show by means of a perturbative weakly nonlinear analysis that the axisymmetric magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a viscous, resistive, incompressible rotating shear flow in a thin channel gives rise to a real Ginzburg-Landau…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. M. Umurhan , K. Menou , O. Regev

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered to be one of the most powerful sources of turbulence in hydrodynamically stable quasi-Keplerian flows, such as those governing accretion disk flows. Although the linear stability of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-21 A. Guseva , R. Hollerbach , A. P. Willis , M. Avila

[Abridged] The turbulent stresses that lead to angular momentum transport in accretion discs have often been treated as resulting from an isotropic effective viscosity, related to the pressure through the alpha parametrization of Shakura &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. I. Ogilvie

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) is one of the fundamental processes in astrophysics, driving angular momentum transport and mass accretion in a wide variety of cosmic objects. Despite much theoretical/numerical and experimental efforts…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-28 G. Mamatsashvili , F. Stefani , A. Guseva , M. Avila

Convection has been discussed in the field of accretion discs for several decades, both as a means of angular momentum transport and also because of its role in controlling discs' vertical structure via heat transport. If the gas is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Loren E. Held , Henrik N. Latter

The saturation level of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is investigated using three-dimensional MHD simulations. The shearing box approximation is adopted and the vertical component of gravity is ignored, so that the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayoshi Sano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Neal J. Turner , James M. Stone

We aim to illustrate the role of hot protons in enhancing the magnetorotational instability (MRI) via the ``hybrid'' viscosity, which is due to the redirection of protons interacting with static magnetic field perturbations, and to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Prasad Subramanian , Peter A. Becker , Menas Kafatos

The standard magnetorotational instability (SMRI) is a promising mechanism for turbulence and rapid accretion in astrophysical disks. It is a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability that destabilizes otherwise hydrodynamically stable disk…

(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

We investigate linear dynamics of non-axisymmetric perturbations in incompressible, vertically stratified Keplerian discs with a weak vertical magnetic field in the shearing box approximation. Perturbations are decomposed into shearing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. R. Mamatsashvili , G. D. Chagelishvili , G. Bodo , P. Rossi

We perform numerical simulations of magneto-rotational instability in a local patch of accretion disk in which radiation pressure exceeds gas pressure. Such conditions may occur in the central regions of disks surrounding compact objects in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. J. Turner , J. M. Stone , T. Sano

The linear instability of thin, vertically-isothermal Keplerian discs, under the influence of axial magnetic field is investigated. Solutions of the stability problem are found explicitly by asymptotic expansions in the small aspect ratio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Liverts , Yu. Shtemler , M. Mond