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Plane Couette flow of visco-elastic fluids is shown to exhibit a purely elastic subcritical instability in spite of being linearly stable. The mechanism of this instability is proposed and the nonlinear stability analysis of plane Couette…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander N. Morozov , Wim van Saarloos

We address a threshold problem of the Couette flow $(y,0)$ in a uniform magnetic field $(\beta,0)$ for the 2D MHD equation on $\mathbb{T}\times\mathbb{R}$ with fluid viscosity $\nu$ and magnetic resistivity $\mu$. The nonlinear enhanced…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Fei Wang , Zeren Zhang

I consider the problem of weakly nonlinear stability of three-dimensional parity-invariant magnetohydrodynamic systems to perturbations, involving large scales. I assume that the MHD state, the stability of which I investigate, does not…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Zheligovsky

In this paper we studied the weakly nonlinear stage of stationary convective instability in a nonuniformly rotating layer of an electrically conductive fluid in an axial uniform magnetic field under the influence of: a) temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

The MHD flow driven by a travelling magnetic field (TMF) in an annular channel is investigated numerically. For sufficiently large magnetic Reynolds number Rm, or if a large enough pressure gradient is externally applied, the system…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Christophe Gissinger , Paola Rodriguez-Imazio , Stephan Fauve

We study the stability of two-fluid flow through a plane channel at Reynolds numbers of a hundred to a thousand in the linear and nonlinear regimes. The two fluids have the same density but different viscosities. The fluids, when miscible,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-27 Kirti Chandra Sahu , Rama Govindarajan

We study the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations near Couette flow with a constant magnetic field perpendicular to the shear plane. Couette flow induces mixing and generates magnetic induction, while the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Niklas Knobel

We study the Rayleigh-Taylor problem for two incompressible, immiscible, viscous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows, with zero resistivity, surface tension (or without surface tenstion) and special initial magnetic field, evolving with a free…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-05-02 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Yanjin Wang

The linear marginal instability of an MHD Taylor-Couette flow of infinite vertical extension is considered. For hydrodynamically unstable flows the minimum Reynolds number exists even without a magnetic field, but there are also solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 G. Rüdiger

Using a new numerical code we have carried out two-dimensional simulations of the nonlinear evolution of unstable sheared magnetohydrodynamic flows. We considered two cases: a strong magnetic field (Alfven Mach number, M_a = 2.5) and a weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Adam Frank , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , Joseph B. Gaalaas

We investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solution (including the case of heavier density with increasing height) to the three-dimensional incompressible nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Weiwei Wang

We consider the dynamics of two layers of incompressible electrically conducting fluid interacting with the magnetic field, which are confined within a 3D horizontally infinite slab and separated by a free internal interface. We assume that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Yanjin Wang

Axisymmetric viscoelastic pipe flow of Oldroyd-B fluids has been recently found to be linearly unstable by Garg et al. Phys. Rev. Lett., 121.024502 (2018). From a nonlinear point of view, this means that the flow can transition to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-22 Dongdong Wan , Guangrui Sun , Mengqi Zhang

Fluid discontinuities, such as shock fronts and vortex sheets, can reflect waves and become unstable to corrugation. Analytical calculations of these phenomena are tractable in the simplest cases only, while their numerical simulations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 William Béthune

This manuscript has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids, see https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/accepted/53075Se8O0b1b109b1cc0061b280aaa122f0f92dc. The stability of a pulsatile quasi-two-dimensional duct flow was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-12 Christopher J. Camobreco , Alban Pothérat , Gregory J. Sheard

In this study, a linear stability analysis is performed for different Weakly Compressible Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) methods on a 1D periodic domain describing an incompressible base flow. The perturbation equation can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Geoffroy Chaussonnet , Rainer Koch , Hans-Joerg Bauer

Modal instabilities in a flow through a channel at high Reynolds and Mach numbers are studied for three-dimensional perturbations. In addition to the Tollmien-Schlichting modes, there exist higher modes in a channel flow that do not have a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-03 M. Deka , G. Tomar , V. Kumaran

We study the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a channel $\Omega=(0,L)\times(0,H)$ with small viscosity $\varepsilon\ll1$, an $\varepsilon$-Navier slip condition on the horizontal walls, and a viscous inflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yan Guo , Zhuolun Yang

The stability of plane Poiseuille flow of a viscous Newtonian fluid in a multilayer channel with anisotropic porous walls is analyzed using the classical modal analysis, the energy method, and the non-modal analysis. The influence of porous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-24 Supriya Karmakar , Priyanka Shukla

We consider the three-dimensional incompressible MHD system. Any weak solution satisfying a strong energy inequality is $L^2$-asymptotically stable around a Landau solution. Under an additional integrability assumption on the initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Nicola De Nitti , Yun Wang , Shaoheng Zhang