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The well-known Jeans criterion describes the onset of instabilities in an infinite, homogeneous, self-gravitating medium supported by pressure. Most realistic astrophysical systems, however, are not isolated - instead they are under the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Chanda J. Jog

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 study radiation-hydrodynamical normal modes of radiation-supported accretion disks in the WKB limit. It has long been known that in the large optical depth limit the standard equilibrium is unstable to convection. We study how the growth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paola Pietrini , Julian Krolik

The shear flow influences the stability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. In the presence of a dissipation mechanism, flow shear may induce a MHD wave instability below the threshold of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI), which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 D. J. Yu

The linear stability of a shear layer in a highly diffusive stably stratified atmosphere has been investigated. This study completes and extends previous works by Dudis (1974) and Jones (1977). We show that: (i) an asymptotic regime is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Lignieres , F. Califano , A. Mangeney

In the early Universe, large-scale flows were omnipresent, and the flow collisions produced sheets and filaments. This phenomenon occurs for both particle and wave dark matter. But for the latter, these sheets and filaments are the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Ui-Han Zhang , Tak-Pong Woo , Tzihong Chiueh

Damping of the previously discovered resonant drag instability (RDI) of dust streaming in protoplanetary disc is studied using the local approach to dynamics of gas-dust perturbations in the limit of the small dust fraction. Turbulence in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 V. V. Zhuravlev

We discuss the possibility that astrophysical accretion disks are dynamically unstable to non-axisymmetric disturbances with characteristic scales much smaller than the vertical scale height. The instability is studied using three methods:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Dubrulle , L. Marié , Ch. Normand , D. Richard , F. Hersant , J. -P. Zahn

Turbulence plays a critical role in the atmosphere, oceans, engineering, and astrophysics. The dissipation (heating) induced by turbulent flows is particularly important for the thermodynamics and chemistry of interstellar clouds, yet its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Edward Troccoli , Christoph Federrath

Radiative shock waves show a strong cooling instability at temperatures above approximately 2 times 10^5 K. We numerically investigate this instability by simulating different astronomical objects in which colliding flows play an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Rolf Walder , Doris Folini

The behavior of K-V, waterbag, parabolic, conical and Gaussian distributions in periodic quadrupole channels is studied by particle simulations. It is found that all these different distributions exhibit the known K-V instabilities. But the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Jürgen Struckmeier , Jürgen Klabunde , Martin Reiser

Ocean submesoscales, flows with characteristic size around 10 m - 10 km, are transitional between the larger, rotationally-constrained mesoscale and three-dimensional turbulence. In this paper we present simulations of a submesoscale ocean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Erin Atkinson , James McWilliams , Nicolas Grisouard

Static and dynamic properties of two-dimensional bidisperse dissipative particles are numerically studied near the jamming transition. We investigate the dependency of the critical scaling on the ratio of the different diameters and find a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Kuniyasu Saitoh , Vanessa Magnanimo , Stefan Luding

The equations describing a two-component cosmological fluid with linearized density perturbations are investigated in the small wavelength or large $k$ limit. The equations are formulated to include a baryonic component, as well as either a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. M. Gailis , N. E. Frankel

Attempts to understand the dynamics of warped astrophysical discs have garnered significant attention, largely motivated by the growing catalogue of observed distorted systems. Previous studies have shown that the evolution of the warp is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Callum W. Fairbairn , Gordon I. Ogilvie

The recently discovered resonant drag instability of dust settling in protoplanetary disc is considered as the mode coupling of subsonic gas-dust mixture perturbations. This mode coupling is coalescence of two modes with nearly equal phase…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-01 V. V. Zhuravlev

We consider density fluctuations of a two-fluid model consisting of hydrogen plasma and radiation prior to the cosmic hydrogen recombination. As investigation method that of the dispersion relations is applied, which have been derived from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eva Gessner , Heinz Dehnen

Linear analysis of the stability of diffuse clouds in the cold neutral medium with uniform magnetic field is performed. We consider that gas in equilibrium state is heated by cosmic rays, X-rays and electronic photoeffect on the surface of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander E. Dudorov , Constantine E. Stepanov , Sergey O. Fomin , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov

In this paper, we study small-scale fluctuations (baryon pressure sound waves) in the baryon fluid during recombination. In particular, we look at their evolution in the presence of relative velocities between baryons and photons on large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Tejaswi Venumadhav , Christopher Hirata

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is responsive to kinetic disruptions generated by nearby astrophysical events. In this work, we study the saturation and dissipation of turbulent hydrodynamics within the CGM through an extensive array of 252…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 Alex Lv , Lile Wang , Renyue Cen , Luis C. Ho