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Quantitatively-unexplained stationary waves or ridges often encircle icicles. Such waves form when roughly 0.1 mm-thick layers of water flow down the icicle. These waves typically have a wavelength of 1cm approximately independent of…

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The visco-diffusive McIntyre instability (McIntyre 1970) has been suggested as a possible source for density layer formation around laboratory and oceanic vortices. This suggestion is here quantitatively addressed using idealised,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-14 Michael Le Bars

This second part of the study develops a geometric and asymptotic description of how surface tension governs the modulational stability of interfacial waves in a two-layer fluid. Extending the analytical framework of Part~I, surface tension…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-18 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

Sea ice is highly complex due to the inhomogeneity of the physical properties (e.g. temperature and salinity) as well as the permeability and mixture of water and a matrix of sea ice and/or sea ice crystals. Such complexity has proven…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 Graig Sutherland , Jean Rabault , Kai H. Christensen , Atle Jensen

Recently, Kami\'nski et al. [1] demonstrated that a two-dimensional streamwise waviness with carefully selected amplitude and period can be effectively used in postponement of a flow separation at high Reynolds number which is out of reach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-29 Piotr Kamiński , Artur Tyliszczak , Witold Elsner , Paweł Niegodajew

The linear stability of a stratified shear flow for smooth density profiles is studied. This work focuses on the nature of the stability boundaries of flows in which both Kelvin-Helmholtz and Holmboe instabilities are present. For a fixed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexandros Alexakis

We present a comprehensive study of MHD waves and instabilities in a weakly ionised system, e.g., an interstellar molecular cloud. We determine all the critical wavelengths of perturbations across which the sustainable wave modes can change…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-01 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Glenn E. Ciolek , S. A. Morton

The Kelvin-Hemholtz (K-H) instability in the corona EUV jet is studied via 2.5 MHD numerical simulations. The jet results from magnetic reconnection due to the interation of the new emerging magnetic field and the pre-existing magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Tianle Zhao , Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Udo Ziegler

Flow of a thin viscous film down a flat inclined plane becomes unstable to long wave interfacial fluctuations when the Reynolds number based on the mean film thickness becomes larger than a critical value (this value decreases as the angle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-20 Alice B. Thompson , Dmitri Tseluiko , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou

When a liquid slams into a solid, the intermediate gas is squeezed out at a speed that diverges when approaching the moment of impact. Although there is mounting experimental evidence that instabilities form on the liquid interface during…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Devaraj van der Meer

A relative motion of the normal and superfluid components of Helium II results in Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) at their common free surface. We found the exact solutions for the nonlinear stage of the development of that instability.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Nikolay M. Zubarev

We investigate the linear stability of a flat interface that separates a liquid layer from a fully-developed turbulent gas flow. In this context, linear-stability analysis involves the study of the dynamics of a small-amplitude wave on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-08-13 L. Ó Náraigh , P. Spelt , O. Matar , T. Zaki

Across the stable density stratification of the abyssal ocean, deep dense water is slowly propelled upward by sustained, though irregular, turbulent mixing. The resulting mean upwelling determines large-scale oceanic circulation properties…

A numerical simulation of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) in parallel shear flows subjected to external rotation is carried out using a pseudo-spectral technique. The Coriolis force, arising in a rotation frame under the beta plane…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-11 Prince Kumar , Devendra Sharma

In the highly structured solar corona, resonant absorption is an unavoidable mechanism of energy transfer from global transverse MHD waves to local azimuthal Alfv\'en waves. Due to its localised nature, a direct detection of this mechanism…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Patrick Antolin , Ineke De Moortel , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

Boundary layer turbulence in coastal regions differs from that in deep ocean because of bottom interactions. In this paper, we focus on the merging of surface and bottom boundary layers in a finite-depth coastal ocean by numerically solving…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Chao Yan , James C. McWilliams , Marcelo Chamecki

In this short review it is suggested that the relationship between third- and fourth-order moments of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer depends on stability. This can explain some differences among datasets, and provides a key…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Alberto Maurizi

Evidence from seismic studies, mineral physics, thermal evolution models and geomagnetic observations is inconclusive about the presence of a stably stratified layer at the top of the Earth's fluid outer core. Such a convectively stable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Fleur Seuren , Santiago A. Triana , Jérémy Rekier , Véronique Dehant , Tim Van Hoolst

In the study of ocean wave impact on structures, one often uses Froude scaling since the dominant force is gravity. However the presence of trapped or entrained air in the water can significantly modify wave impacts. When air is entrained…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Frédéric Dias , Denys Dutykh , Jean-Michel Ghidaglia

The stability and transition in the bottom boundary layer under a solitary wave are analysed in the presence of finite amplitude disturbances. First, the receptivity of the boundary layer is investigated using a linear input-output…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Asim Önder , Philip Li-Fan Liu