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Doubly diffusive convection is considered in a vertical slot where horizontal temperature and solutal variations provide competing effects to the fluid density while allowing the existence of a conduction state. In this configuration, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 C. Beaume , A. M. Rucklidge , J. Tumelty

The periodic-orbit theory based on the improved stationary-phase method within the phase-space path integral approach is presented for the semiclassical description of the nuclear shell structure, concerning the main topics of the fruitful…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 A. G. Magner , M. V. Koliesnik , K. Arita

We present analytical examples of fluid dynamos that saturate through the action of the Coriolis and inertial terms of the Navier-Stokes equation. The flow is driven by a body force and is subject to global rotation and uniform sweeping…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Basile Gallet

The existence and stability of a spherical transonic shock in a hemispherical shell under the three dimensional perturbations of the incoming flows and the exit pressure is established without any further restrictions on the background…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Shangkun Weng

We propose a plasma experiment to be used to investigate fundamental properties of astrophysical dynamos. The highly conducting, fast-flowing plasma will allow experimenters to explore systems with magnetic Reynolds numbers an order of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. J. Spence , K. Reuter , C. B. Forest

The classical pitchfork of singularity theory is a twice-degenerate bifurcation that typically occurs in dynamical system models exhibiting Z_2 symmetry. Non-classical pitchfork singularities also occur in many non-symmetric systems, where…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Rowena Ball

We present an MHD shell model suitable for computation of various energy fluxes of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence for very small and very large magnetic Prandtl numbers $\mathrm{Pm}$; such computations are inaccessible to direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Mahendra K. Verma , Rohit Kumar

We study the dynamical formation of disoriented chiral condensates in very high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions using Bjorken hydrodynamics and relativistic nucleation theory. It is the dynamics of the first order confinement phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph I. Kapusta , Axel P. Vischer

We discuss the influence of periodic orbits on the dissociation of a model diatomic molecule driven by a strong bichromatic laser fields. Through the stability of periodic orbits we analyze the dissociation probability when parameters like…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Huang , C. Chandre , T. Uzer

Monte Carlo simulation based on Metropolis algorithm has been used with a great success to analyze the dynamic phase transition properties of a single spherical core-shell nanoparticle system with a spin-3/2 core surrounded by a spin-1…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Erol Vatansever , Hamza Polat

Numerical models of the geodynamo are usually classified in two categories: those denominated dipolar modes, observed when the inertial term is small enough, and multipolar fluctuating dynamos, for stronger forcing. We show that a third…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Emmanuel Dormy

The structural properties of an economical model for a confined plasma turbulence governor are investigated through bifurcation and stability analyses. A close relationship is demonstrated between the underlying bifurcation framework of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Ball , R. L. Dewar , H. Sugama

We present a numerical study of dynamo action in a conducting fluid encased in a metallic spherical shell. Motions in the fluid are driven by differential rotation of the outer metallic shell, which we refer to as "the wall". The two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-08 Celine Guervilly , Toby S. Wood , Nicholas H. Brummell

Shell structure of the single-particle spectrum for reflection-asymmetric deformed cavity is investigated. Remarkable shell structure emerges for certain combinations of quadrupole and octupole deformations. Semiclassical periodic-orbit…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Sugita , K. Arita , K. Matsuyanagi

We show that hemispherical dynamos can result from weak equatorial symmetry breaking of the flow in the interior of planets and stars. Using a model of spherical dynamo, we observe that the interaction between a dipolar and a quadrupolar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Basile Gallet , François Pétrélis

The emergence of nematic order on deformable closed surfaces plays a pivotal role in the morphogenesis of active biological matter, such as the regeneration of Hydra. In this work, we present a continuum model that couples the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-10 Gaetano Napoli , Silvia Paparini

Contemporary three-dimensional physics-based simulations of the solar convection zone disagree with observations. They feature differential rotation substantially different from the true rotation inferred by solar helioseismology and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Parag Gupta , David MacTaggart , Radostin D. Simitev

Convection in the liquid outer core of the Earth is driven by thermal and chemical perturbations. The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of double-diffusive convection on magnetic field generation by means of 3D global…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Théo Tassin , Thomas Gastine , Alexandre Fournier

The relative importance of the helicity and cross-helicity electromotive dynamo effects for self-sustained magnetic field generation by chaotic thermal convection in rotating spherical shells is investigated as a function of shell…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-18 Luis Silva , Parag Gupta , David MacTaggart , Radostin D. Simitev

The range of existence and the properties of two essentially different chaotic attractors found in a model of nonlinear convection-driven dynamos in rotating spherical shells are investigated. A hysteretic transition between these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse