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This study investigates the complex kinetics of thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects (TNEs) and their relative importance during the development of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) using high-order discrete Boltzmann models (DBMs). First,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zhongyi He , Yanbiao Gan , Bin Yang , Demei Li , Huilin Lai , Aiguo Xu

The effect of optically thin radiative cooling on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of three dimensional jets is investigated via linear stability theory and nonlinear hydrodynamical simulation. Two different cooling functions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jianjun Xu , Philip Hardee , James Stone

We use multiwavelength imaging observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to study the evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) instability in a fan-spine magnetic field configuration.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Sudheer K. Mishra , Balveer Singh , A. K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , B. N. Dwivedi

Numerically solving the 2D Helmholtz equation is widely known to be very difficult largely due to its highly oscillatory solution, which brings about the pollution effect. A very fine mesh size is necessary to deal with a large wavenumber…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Bin Han , Michelle Michelle

This work investigates the short wavelength stability of the magnetopause between a rapidly-rotating, supersonic, dense accretion disc and a slowly-rotating low-density magnetosphere of a magnetized star. The magnetopause is a strong shear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , W. I. Newman

As dust settles in a protoplanetary disk, a vertical shear develops because the dust-rich gas in the midplane orbits at a rate closer to true Keplerian than the slower-moving dust-depleted gas above and below. A classical analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joseph A. Barranco

The common feature of sheared flows of an ideal fluid and plasma in magnetic field is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. This instability is described by identical equations in mentioned two cases. The wave equation for the eigenmodes in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 A. Yu. Chirkov , V. I. Khvesyuk

Aims - Investigate the effects of resistivity and viscosity on the onset and growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in an oscillating coronal loop. Methods - We modelled a standing kink wave in a density-enhanced loop with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , Patrick Antolin

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability of a shear layer with an initially-uniform magnetic field in the direction of flow is studied in the framework of 2D incompressible magnetohydrodynamics with finite resistivity and viscosity using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , J. M. Schroeder

Simulations and observations of the low-latitude magnetosphere-magnetosheath boundary layer indicate that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) drives vortex structures that enhance plasma mixing and magnetic reconnection, influencing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Silvia Ferro , Fabio Bacchini , Giuseppe Arrò , Francesco Pucci , Pierre Henri

Context: Magnetic null points are associated with high-energy coronal phenomena such as solar flares and are often sites of reconnection and particle acceleration. Dynamic twisting of a magnetic null point can generate a Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 James Quinn , David MacTaggart , Radostin Simitev

Using two-dimensional simulations, we numerically explore the dependences of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability upon various physical parameters, including viscosity, width of sheared layer, flow speed, and magnetic field strength. In most cases,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Chunlin Tian , Yao Chen

The analysis of the stability properties of astrophysical jets against Kelvin-Helmholtz (or shear-layer) instabilities plays a basic role in the understanding the origin and physical characteristics of these objects. Numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Micono , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia , P. Rossi , A. Ferrari , R. Rosner

The study is motivated by recent findings of the decrease in the momentum transfer from strong winds to sea. The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) of a three-fluid system of air, foam and water is examined within the range of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-09-20 Yuri M. Shtemler , Ephim Golbraikh , Michael Mond

We investigate the linear stability properties of the plane interface separating two relativistic magnetized flows in relative motion. The two flows are governed by the (special) relativistic equations for a magnetized perfect gas in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Osmanov , A. Mignone , S. Massaglia , G. Bodo , A. Ferrari

In this paper we present the results of numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a stratified shear layer. This shear instability is believed to be responsible for extra mixing in differentially rotating stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Brüggen , W. Hillebrandt

In this work, a novel analysis of a hybrid discontinuous Galerkin method for the Helmholtz equation is presented. It uses wavenumber, mesh size and polynomial degree independent stabilisation parameters leading to impedance traces between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Michael Leumüller , Joachim Schöberl

Physical problems with a solution that can be expressed analytically are scarce; this holds even more true for problems set in a cosmological context. Such solutions are, however, invaluable tools for making comparisons between theory,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Orestis A. Karapiperis , Matthieu Schaller

We present a practical guide to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (\SPH) and its application to astrophysical problems. Although remarkably robust, \SPH\ must be used with care if the results are to be meaningful since the accuracy of \SPH\…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Martin , F. R. Pearce , P. A. Thomas

Eulerian hydrodynamical simulations are a powerful and popular tool for modeling fluids in astrophysical systems. In this work, we critically examine recent claims that these methods violate Galilean invariance of the Euler equations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-03 Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Tom Abel , Douglas H. Rudd