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Linear stability of fully developed flows of air over water is carried out in order to study non-linear effects in the generation of solitons by wind. A linear stability analysis of the basic flow is made and the conditions at which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-01 Shahrdad G. Sajjadi , Harihar Khanal

At first, a review of our knowledge on the distribution of galaxies at large-scale, leading to a foam-like large-scale structure of the Universe, is presented in the Introduction. Then, it is shown how, according to the present theory for…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evangelos Chaliasos

This paper studies the structural implications of constant vorticity for steady three-dimensional internal water waves. It is known that in many physical regimes, water waves beneath vacuum that have constant vorticity are necessarily two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Robin Ming Chen , Lili Fan , Samuel Walsh , Miles H. Wheeler

We examine the linear stability of a shear flow driven by wind stress at the free surface and rotation at the lower boundary, mimicking oceanic flows influenced by surface winds and rotation of Earth. The linearised eigenvalue problem is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 S. Preethi , Ankush Kamboj , Ramkarn Patne , P. A. L. Narayana , Kirti Chandra Sahu

When a fast-moving drop impacts onto a smooth substrate, splashing will be produced at the edge of the expanding liquid sheet. This ubiquitous phenomenon lacks a fundamental understanding. Combining experiment with model, we illustrate that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-04 Yuan Liu , Peng Tan , Lei Xu

The dynamics of a thin elastic sheet lubricated by a narrow layer of liquid is relevant to various situations and length scales. In the continuity of our previous work on viscous wakes, we study theoretically the effects of an external…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Maxence Arutkin , René Ledesma-Alonso , Thomas Salez , Elie Raphaël

Electron velocity distributions in the solar wind are known to have field-aligned skewness, which has been characterized by the presence of secondary populations such as the halo and strahl. Skewness may provide energy for the excitation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Bea Zenteno-Quinteros , Adolfo F. Viñas , Pablo S. Moya

Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities (KHI) along contact discontinuities in galaxy clusters have been used to constrain the strength of magnetic fields in galaxy clusters, following the assumption that, as magnetic field lines drape around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-07 Urmila Chadayammuri , John ZuHone , Paul Nulsen , Daisuke Nagai , Helen Russell

We investigate the hydrodynamics of the interaction of two supersonic winds in binary systems. The collision of the winds creates two shocks separated by a contact discontinuity. The overall structure depends on the momentum flux ratio eta…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Astrid Lamberts , Sebastien Fromang , Guillaume Dubus

A problem of the instability of an inhomogeneous axisymmetric plasma jet in a parallel magnetic field is solved. The jet boundary becomes, under certain conditions, unstable relative to magnetosonic oscillations (Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anatoly S. Leonovich

Transport coefficients in highly ionised plasmas like the intra-cluster medium (ICM) are still ill-constrained. They influence various processes, among them the mixing at shear flow interfaces due to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 E. Roediger , R. P. Kraft , P. Nulsen , E. Churazov , W. Forman , M. Brueggen , R. Kokotanekova

The 1-D Two-Fluid Model (TFM) promises a powerful and computationally cheap platform for simulating multi-fluid flow phenomena. However, runaway Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities plagued previous approaches, necessitating aphysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Alexander López-de-Bertodano , Alejandro Clausse

In the present Letter we use the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of the Navier-Stokes equation for a two-phase flow (water and air) to study the dynamics of the modulational instability of free surface waves and its contribution to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Iafrati , A. Babanin , M. Onorato

Generated under hurricane conditions, a slip layer composed of foam, bubble emulsion, and spray determines the behavior of the surface drag with wind speed. This study enables us to estimate foam's contribution to this behavior. A…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Ephim Golbraikh , Yuri M. Shtemler

This work is devoted to the theoretical study of the stability of two superposed horizontal liquid layers bounded by two solid planes and subjected to a horizontal temperature gradient. The liquids are supposed to be immiscible with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. Madruga , C. Perez-Garcia , G. Lebon

The propagation of surface water waves interacting with a current and an uneven bottom is studied. Such a situation is typical for ocean waves where the winds generate currents in the top layer of the ocean. The role of the bottom…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-19 Alan C. Compelli , Rossen I. Ivanov , Calin I. Martin , Michail D. Todorov

The constant vorticity {\bf two-layer water wave} in the $\beta$-plane approximation with centripetal forces is investigated in this paper. Different from the works (Chu and Yang\cite[JDE, 2020]{chu} and Chu and Yang \cite[JDE, 2021]{chu2})…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Yuchao He , Yongli Song , Yonghui Xia

Features of the response of pickup ions (PUIs) to the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability (KHI) on the heliopause (HP) are examined by means of two-dimensional hybrid simulations. We assume the supersonic neutral solar wind as the source of PUIs…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Ken Tsubouchi

We introduce a new class of Green-Naghdi type models for the propagation of internal waves between two (1+1)-dimensional layers of homogeneous, immiscible, ideal, incompressible, irrotational fluids, vertically delimited by a flat bottom…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Vincent Duchêne , Samer Israwi , Raafat Talhouk

It is suggested that the wavelike character of the recently discovered 2.7-kiloparsec spatially and kinematically coherent complex of interstellar clouds in the solar neighborhood--the Radcliffe Wave--may be the result of a Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-19 Robert Fleck