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We study the equations obtained from linearizing the compressible Navier-Stokes equations around a steady-state profile with a heavier fluid lying above a lighter fluid along a planar interface, i.e. a Rayleigh-Taylor instability. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-25 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

We assess experimentally the scaling laws that characterize the mixing region produced by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a confined porous medium. In particular, we wish to assess experimentally the existence of a superlinear scaling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-02 Marco De Paoli , Diego Perissutti , Cristian Marchioli , Alfredo Soldati

We use kinetic theory in order to study the role of quantum fluctuations in the isotropization of the pressure tensor in a system subject to fast longitudinal expansion, such as the matter produced in the early stages of a heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Francois Gelis

We present a linear analysis of the radiative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in the presence of magnetic field for both optically thin and thick regimes. When the flow is optically thin, magnetic field not only stabilizes perturbations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Mohsen Shadmehri

Synchrotron emission from a supernova necessitates a magnetic field, but it is unknown how strong the relevant magnetic fields are, and what mechanism generates them. In this study, we perform high-resolution numerical gas dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 Paul Duffell , Daniel Kasen

We show a formal result of the longitudinal force acting on a moving potential. The potential can be velocity-dependent, which appears in various interesting physical systems, such as electrons in the presence of a magnetic flux-line, or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Ming Tang , D. J. Thouless

A qualitatively different manifestation of the Rayleigh instability is demonstrated, where, instead of the usual extended undulations and breakup of the liquid into many droplets, the instability is localized, leading to an isolated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-02 Haim Diamant , Oded Agam

We study the motion of a charged particle under the action of a magnetic field with cylindrical symmetry. In particular we consider magnetic fields with constant direction and with magnitude depending on the distance $r$ from the symmetry…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Paolo Caldiroli , Gabriele Cora

We study Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at the coronal-prominence boundary by means of 2.5D numerical simulations in a single-fluid MHD approach including a generalized Ohm's law. The initial configuration includes a homogeneous magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Khomenko , A. Diaz , A. de Vicente , M. Collados , M. Luna

In this paper, it is shown why Lorentz Transformation implies the general case where observed events are not necessarily in the inertia frame of any observer but assumes a special scenario when determining the length contraction and time…

General Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Ibrahim M. Alabdulmohsin

We take causality and uniqueness of events observation as our driving forces. They are built in in the way we define distinct observers, which then require a finite time to communicate between each other. This unavoidably leads to the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Antonio Pineda

When we discuss problems on gravity, we can not avoid some fundamental physical problems, such as space-time, inertia, and inertial reference frame. The goal of this paper is to discuss the logic system of gravity theory and the problems of…

General Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 Ning Wu

The magnetoimpedance effect is a versatile tool to investigate ferromagnetic materials, revealing aspects on the fundamental physics associated to magnetization dynamics, broadband magnetic properties, important issues for current and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 M. A. Corrêa , F. Bohn , R. B. da Silva , R. L. Sommer

We propose a gravitational theory in which the effective Lagrangian of the gravitational field is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar, the trace of the matter energy-momentum tensor, and the contraction of the Ricci tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-30 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Hamid Reza Sepangi , Shahab Shahidi

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of two layers of immiscible, inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational fluids through a full nonlinear system. Our goal is to establish a virial theorem and prove the polynomial growth of slope and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Haocheng Yang

A few thoughts on physical meaning of geometry, space and time.

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Richard Kerner

Spin relaxation in the ultrathin metallic films of stacked microelectronic devices is investigated on the basis of a modified Landau-Lifshitz equation of micromagnetic dynamics in which the damping torque is treated as originating from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-22 Sergey Bastrukov , Jun Yong Khoo , Boris Lukiyanchuk , Irina Molodtsova

We give a sufficient condition under which an applied rotation on medium particles stabilizes a slow probe in the rotation center. The symmetric part of the stiffness matrix thus gets a positive Lamb shift with respect to equilibrium. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-15 Urna Basu , Pierre de Buyl , Christian Maes , Karel Netočný

The effects of thermal coupling between two thin liquid layers, separated by a gas layer, are discussed. The liquid layers undergo long-wavelength instabilities driven by gravitational and thermocapillary stresses. To study the dynamics,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-07-14 Miklós Vécsei , Mathias Dietzel , Steffen Hardt

We give a brief overview of time dilation tests using high-resolution laser spectroscopy at heavy-ion storage rings. We reflect on the various methods used to eliminate the first-order Doppler effect and on the pitfalls encountered, and…