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Magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is an important instability mechanism for rotating flows with magnetic fields. In particular, when the strength of the magnetic field tends to zero, the stability criterion for rotating flows is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Zhiwu Lin , Yucong Wang , Wenpei Wu

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is the leading candidate for driving turbulence, angular momentum transport, and accretion in astrophysical disks. I consider the linear theory of the MRI in a thin, equatorial disk in the Kerr…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles F. Gammie

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) - which is due to an interplay between a sheared background and the magnetic field - is commonly considered a key ingredient for developing and sustaining turbulence in the outer envelope of binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-27 T. Celora , I. Hawke , N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

Hollerbach and Rudiger have reported a new type of magnetorotational instability (MRI) in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow in the presence of combined axial and azimuthal magnetic fields. The salient advantage of this "helical'' MRI (HMRI) is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wei Liu , Jeremy Goodman , Isom Herron , Hantao Ji

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) occurs when a weak magnetic field destabilises a rotating, electrically conducting fluid with inwardly increasing angular velocity. The MRI is essential to astrophysical disk theory where the shear is…

We show that a simple, modified version of the Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) can develop in the outer liquid core of the Earth, in the presence of a background shear. It requires either thermal wind, or a primary instability, such as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ludovic Petitdemange , Emmanuel Dormy , Steven A. Balbus

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a crucial role for cosmic structure formation by enabling turbulence in Keplerian disks which would be otherwise hydrodynamically stable. With particular focus on MRI experiments with liquid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is key physics in accretion disks and is widely considered to play some role in massive-star core collapse. Models of rotating massive stars naturally develop very strong shear at composition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Craig Wheeler , Daniel Kagan , Emmanouil Chatzopoulos

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to play a key role in the formation of stars and black holes by sustaining the turbulence in hydrodynamically stable Keplerian accretion discs. In previous experiments the MRI was observed…

Eccentric disks arise in such astrophysical contexts as tidal disruption events, but it is unknown whether the magnetorotational instability (MRI), which powers accretion in circular disks, operates in eccentric disks as well. We examine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-24 Chi-Ho Chan , Julian H. Krolik , Tsvi Piran

We venture for the comparison between growth rates for magnetorotational instability (MRI) and hydrodynamics instability in the presence of an extra force in the local Keplerian accretion flow. The underlying model is described by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-27 Subham Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a key role for cosmic structure formation by triggering turbulence in the rotating flows of accretion disks that would be otherwise hydrodynamically stable. In the limit of small magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-21 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani , Yasuhide Fukumoto

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) is one of the fundamental processes in astrophysics, driving angular momentum transport and mass accretion in a wide variety of cosmic objects. Despite much theoretical/numerical and experimental efforts…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-28 G. Mamatsashvili , F. Stefani , A. Guseva , M. Avila

The Global Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) is investigated for a configuration in which the rotation frequency changes only in a narrow transition region. If the vertical wavelength of the unstable mode is of the same order or smaller…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Pino , S. M. Mahajan

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a key role in the formation of stars and black holes, by enabling outward angular momentum transport in accretion disks. The use of combined axial and azimuthal magnetic fields allows the…

Possible effects of magnetic fields in core collapse supernovae rely on an efficient amplification of the weak pre-collapse fields. It has been suggested that the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) leads to rapid field growth. Although…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-06 M. Obergaulinger , P. Cerdà-Duràn , E. Müller , M. A. Aloy

We study the magnetorotational instability (MRI) using nonmodal stability techniques. Despite the spectral instability of many forms of the MRI, this proves to be a natural method of analysis that is well-suited to deal with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-01 Jonathan Squire , Amitava Bhattacharjee

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) of differential rotation under the simultaneous presence of axial and azimuthal components of the (current-free) magnetic field is considered. For rotation with uniform specific angular momentum the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guenther Ruediger , Manfred Schultz

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) triggers turbulence and enables outward transport of angular momentum in hydrodynamically stable accretion discs. By using the WKB approximation and methods of singular function theory, we resolve two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

The magnetorotational instability(MRI) in the Kerr spacetime is studied on a 3+1 viewpoint. The Maxwell's equations are expressed in a circularly orbiting observer's frame that co-rotates with matter in Keplerian orbits. There exist large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Yokosawa , T. Inui
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