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We study here the arising of Kelvin--Helmholtz Instability (KHI) in one fast jet of 2014 April 16 observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in different UV and EUV wavelengths. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 M. Bogdanova , I. Zhelyazkov , R. Joshi , R. Chandra

We investigate the linear instability of two-layer stratified shear flows in a sloping two-dimensional channel, subject to non-zero longitudinal gravitational forces. We reveal three previously unknown instabilities, distinct from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-20 Lu Zhu , Amir Atoufi , Adrien Lefauve , Rich R. Kerswell , P. F. Linden

The feedback forces exerted by particles suspended in a turbulent flow is shown to lead to a new scaling law for velocity fluctuations associated to a power-spectra $\propto k^{-2}$. The mechanism at play relies on a direct transfer of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-23 Jérémie Bec , François Laenen , Stefano Musacchio

We investigate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of stratified jets. The internal component (core) is made of a relativistic gas moving with a relativistic bulk speed. The second component (sheath or envelope) flows between the core and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hanasz , H. Sol

We present the results of simulations of the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability in a cooled, slab symmetric system. The parameters were chosen to approximate the physical conditions typically found in jets from young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Downes , T. P. Ray

We investigate the effects of viscosity and heat conduction on the onset and growth of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) via an efficient discrete Boltzmann model. Technically, two effective approaches are presented to quantitatively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-02 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Chuandong Lin , Huilin Lai , Zhipeng Liu

The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) has been observed in the solar atmosphere. Ion-neutral collisions may play a relevant role for the growth rate and evolution of the KHI in solar partially ionized plasmas as in, e.g., solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Soler , A. J. Diaz , J. L. Ballester , M. Goossens

The KelvinHelmholtz (KH) instability is a fundamental wave instability that is frequently observed in all kinds of shear layer (jets, wakes, atmospheric air currents etc). The study of KH-instability, coherent flow structures has a major…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-03-29 Santosh Tirunagari

In this paper we investigate whether Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), equipped with artificial conductivity, is able to capture the physics of density/energy discontinuities in the case of the so-called shearing layers test, a test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Sander Valcke , Sven De Rijcke , Elke Roediger , Herwig Dejonghe

The effect of optically thin radiative cooling on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of three dimensional jets is investigated via linear stability theory and nonlinear hydrodynamical simulation. Two different cooling functions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jianjun Xu , Philip Hardee , James Stone

We report here, for the first time, an observed instability of a Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) nature occurring in a fully three-dimensional (3D) current-vortex sheet at the fan plane of a 3D magnetic null point. The current-vortex layer forms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-09 P. F. Wyper , D. I. Pontin

The linear MHD Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in an anisotropic plasma concerning the direction of an external magnetic field is examined in detail. For this purpose, the MHD equations are used to describe the motion of plasma as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 N. S. Dzhalilov , R. Ismayilli

Stability of cylindrical interface between two ideal incompressible fluids, including the magnetic field, surface tension and gravitational field is studied in linear approximation. We found that helical waves arising both in plasma comet…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 A. I. Ershkovich , P. L. Israelevich

Wave phenomena in vibrofluidized dry and partially wet granular materials confined in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry are investigated with numerical simulations considering individual particles as hard spheres. Short ranged cohesive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-06 Kai Huang

Recent observations support the propagation of a number of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes which, under some conditions, can become unstable and the developing instability is the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability (KHI). In its nonlinear stage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 Ivan Zhelyazkov , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi

Aims: We quantify the effects of twisted magnetic fields on the development of the magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in transversely oscillating coronal loops. Methods: We modelled a fundamental standing kink mode in a straight,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin

This study examines the stability of a flexible material interface between two fluids of the same viscosity in interaction with a free surface. When the layers are motionless, we provide evidence for the onset of a novel instability by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-05 Joris Labarbe

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

In this paper, the coupled Rayleigh-Taylor-Kelvin-Helmholtz instability(RTI, KHI and RTKHI, respectively) system is investigated using a multiple-relaxation-time discrete Boltzmann model. Both the morphological boundary length and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-24 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Yudong Zhang , Qingkai Zeng

A version of model is proposed, which is aimed for getting parameters of the atmospheric layer and upper water layer with account of the wind-wave state. The dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer is realized in version of papers [1,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 Vladislav Polnikov , Iliya Kabatchenko