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We present the results of global 3-D MHD simulations of stratified and turbulent protoplanetary disc models. The aim of this work is to develop thin disc models capable of sustaining turbulence for long run times, which can be used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sebastien Fromang , Richard P. Nelson

We derive the evolution equations describing a thin axisymmetric disk of gas and stars with an arbitrary rotation curve that is kept in a state of marginal gravitational instability and energy equilibrium due to the balance between energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mark R. Krumholz , Andreas Burkert

We construct aligned and unaligned stationary perturbation configurations in a composite system of stellar and coplanarly magnetized gaseous singular isothermal discs (SIDs) coupled by gravity. In comparison with SID problems studied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu-Qing Lou , Yue Zou

In this paper, we present a conforming space-time discretization of the wave equation based on a first-order-in-time variational formulation with exponential weights in time. We analyze the method, showing its stability without imposing any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Matteo Ferrari , Ilaria Perugia , Enrico Zampa

We present solutions to the relativistic thin disc evolutionary equation using a modified description of the mean fluid flow within the disc. The model takes into account the effects of sub-circular velocities in the innermost disc regions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrew Mummery , Steven A. Balbus

In two previous publications$^{1,2}$, we have demonstrated that stationary rotation of magnetized plasma about a compact central object permits an enormous number of different MHD instabilities, with the well-known magneto-rotational…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans Goedbloed , Rony Keppens

A linear stability analysis has been done to a magnetized disk under a linear gravity. We have reduced the linearized perturbation equations to a second-order differential equation which resembles the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jongsoo Kim , Seung Soo Hong , Dongsu Ryu

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

We study an initial value problem for two-dimensional needle crystal growth with anisotropic surface tension. The initial value problem is derived from the so called one-sided model based on complex variables method. We then obtain the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Xuming Xie

We study the stability of a type of stratified flows of the two dimensional inviscid incompressible MHD equations with velocity damping. The exponential stability for the perturbation near certain stratified flow is investigated in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Yi Du , Wang Yang , Yi Zhou

The well-known bar instability of rotationally-supported disk galaxy models has been studied extensively since its first discovery over half a century ago. We were therefore very surprised to find cases of disks embedded in rigid halos,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-24 J. A. Sellwood , Victor P. Debattista , R. G. Carlberg

This thesis aims at investigating the first steps toward an unconditionally stable space-time isogeometric method, based on splines of maximal regularity, for the linear acoustic wave equation. The unconditional stability of space-time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Sara Fraschini

We investigate the stability and long-term behavior of spatially periodic plane waves in the complex Klein-Gordon equation under localized perturbations. Such perturbations render the wave neither localized nor periodic, placing its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Emile Bukieda , Louis Garénaux , Björn de Rijk

The MHD instabilities can generate complex field topologies even if the initial field configuration is a very simple one. We consider the stability properties of magnetic configurations containing a toroidal and an axial field. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

We study the shape stability of disks moving in an external Laplacian field in two dimensions. The problem is motivated by the motion of ionization fronts in streamer-type electric breakdown. It is mathematically equivalent to the motion of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-11-07 Ute Ebert , Bernard Meulenbroek , Lothar Schaefer

Waves and oscillations can provide vital information about the internal structure of waveguides they propagate in. Here, we analytically investigate the effects of density and magnetic stratification on linear longitudinal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-20 M. Luna-Cardozo , G. Verth , R. Erdélyi

We consider localised bulging/necking in an inflated hyperelastic membrane tube with closed ends. We first show that the initiation pressure for the onset of localised bulging is simply the limiting pressure in uniform inflation when the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-07 Simon P Pearce , Yibin B Fu

The Vertical Shear Instability is one of two known mechanisms potentially active in the so-called dead zones of protoplanetary accretion disks. A recent analysis indicates that a subset of unstable modes shows unbounded growth - both as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 O. M. Umurhan , R. P. Nelson , O. Gressel

Mean-motion resonances are expected to frequently arise at the inner edges of protoplanetary disks, where planet-disk interactions facilitate large-scale orbital convergence. Under certain conditions, however, the same dissipative forces…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Konstantin Batygin , Ian R. Brunton , Alessandro Morbidelli

In a series of recent works by Demirkaya et al. stability analysis for the static kink solutions to the 1D continuous and discrete Klein-Gordon equations with a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric perturbation has been analysed. We consider the linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 Denis I. Borisov , Sergey V. Dmitriev
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