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The effect of large magnetic Prandtl number $\text{Pm}$ (the ratio of viscosity to resistivity) on the turbulent transport and energetics of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is poorly understood, despite the realization of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Loren E. Held , George Mamatsashvili

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a promising mechanism to amplify the magnetic field in fast rotating protoneutron stars. The diffusion of neutrinos trapped in the PNS induces a transport of momentum, which can be modelled as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jerome Guilet , Ewald Mueller , Hans-Thomas Janka

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a shear instability and thus its sensitivity to the shear parameter $q = - d\ln\Omega/d\ln r $ is of interest to investigate. Motivated by astrophysical disks, most (but not all) previous MRI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Farrukh Nauman , Eric G. Blackman

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) can be a powerful mechanism amplifying the magnetic field in core-collapse supernovae. Whether initially weak magnetic fields can be amplified by this instability to dynamically relevant strengths is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-03 Tomasz Rembiasz , Martin Obergaulinger , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Ewald Müller , Miguel-Ángel Aloy

Neutrino radiation takes a major role in the momentum, heat, and lepton transports in proto-neutron stars (PNSs). These diffusive processes affect the growth of magnetorotational instability (MRI) in PNSs. We perform a local linear analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Youhei Masada , Takayoshi Sano , Kazunari Shibata

We investigate the role of resolution and initial magnetic field strength on core-collapse supernovae in simulations of a non-rotating $13 \mathrm{M_\odot}$ progenitor. Specifically, we study the effect on shock revival, explosion dynamics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Vishnu Varma , Bernhard Müller

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is considered to be a promising mechanism to amplify the magnetic field in fast rotating protoneutron stars. In contrast to accretion disks, radial buoyancy driven by entropy and lepton fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jerome Guilet , Ewald Mueller

We construct models of core-collapse supernovae in one spatial dimension, including rotation, angular momentum transport, and viscous dissipation employing an alpha-prescription. We compare the evolution of a fiducial 11 M_sun non-rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert , Adam Burrows

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is one of the most important processes in sufficiently ionized astrophysical disks. Grid-based simulations, especially those using the local shearing box approximation, provide a powerful tool to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Hongping Deng , Lucio Mayer , Henrik Latter , Philip F. Hopkins , Xue-Ning Bai

We analyze the linear growth of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in the short time limit using nonmodal methods. Our findings are quite different to standard results, illustrating that shearing wave energy can grow at the maximum MRI…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Jonathan Squire , Amitava Bhattacharjee

It has been recently suggested that the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is a limiting case of the magneto-elliptic instability (MEI). This limit is obtained for horizontal modes in the presence of rotation and an external vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Krzysztof A. Mizerski , Wladimir Lyra

A differentially rotating hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) is a metastable object which can be formed in the merger of neutron-star binaries. The eventual collapse of the HMNS into a black hole is a key element in generating the physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-18 Daniel M. Siegel , Riccardo Ciolfi , Abraham I. Harte , Luciano Rezzolla

We study the properties of MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in accretion disks. We adopt the local shearing box model and focus on the special case for which the initial magnetic flux threading the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Fromang , J. Papaloizou

We present long-term (~10^4 M) axisymmetric simulations of differentially rotating, magnetized neutron stars in the slow-rotation, weak magnetic field limit using a perturbative metric evolution technique. Although this approach yields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

We use a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a geometrically thin accretion disk to investigate the locality and detailed structure of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI). The model disk has an aspect ratio $H…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kris Beckwith , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

We examine the small-scale dynamics of black hole accretion disks in which radiation pressure exceeds gas pressure. Local patches of disk are modeled by numerically integrating the equations of radiation MHD in the flux-limited diffusion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. J. Turner , J. M. Stone , J. H. Krolik , T. Sano

We address the question whether the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can operate in the near-surface shear layer (NSSL) of the Sun and how it affects the interaction with the dynamo process. Using hydromagnetic mean-field simulations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Axel Brandenburg , Gustav Larsson , Fabio Del Sordo , Petri J. Käpylä

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is an important process in sufficiently ionized accretion disks, as it can create turbulence that acts as an effective viscosity, mediating angular momentum transport. Due to its local nature, it is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-28 Oliver Zier , Volker Springel

The saturation level of the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in a strongly radiation dominated accretion disk is studied using a new Godunov radiation MHD code in the unstratified shearing box approximation. Since vertical gravity is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-09 Yan-Fei Jiang , James M. Stone , Shane W. Davis

We study how the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks is affected by the electric discharge caused by the electric field in the resistive MHD. We have performed three-dimensional shearing box simulations with various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Takayuki Muranushi , Satoshi Okuzumi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka