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We present a comprehensive study of MHD waves and instabilities in a weakly ionised system, e.g., an interstellar molecular cloud. We determine all the critical wavelengths of perturbations across which the sustainable wave modes can change…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-01 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Glenn E. Ciolek , S. A. Morton

This work is directed towards investigating the fate of three-dimensional long perturbation waves in a plane incompressible wake. The analysis is posed as an initial-value problem in space. More specifically, input is made at an initial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Scarsoglio , D. Tordella , W. O. Criminale

The growth rate of the non-linear ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability is enhanced by magnetic fields self-generated by the Biermann battery mechanism; a scaling for this effect with perturbation height and wavelength is proposed and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 C. A. Walsh , D. S. Clark

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…

In this study we consider the effect of a horizontal magnetic field on the Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a finite liquid metal layer contained in a cuboid vessel (200 \times 200 \times 40 mm^3). Laboratory experiments are performed for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-07 J. C. Yang , T. Vogt , S. Eckert

We analyze the anisotropy of turbulence in an electrically conducting fluid in the presence of a uniform magnetic field, for low magnetic Reynolds number, using the quasi-static approximation. In the linear limit, the kinetic energy of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-01 Benjamin F. N. Favier , Fabien S. Godeferd , Claude Cambon , Alexandre Delache

In the present work the instability of a flat horizontal thin layer of a magnetic fluid (the depth of no more than 50 \mum) under the action of a uniform magnetic field is studied experimentally. It was revealed that the development of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-28 Arthur Zakinyan , Levon Mkrtchyan , Yuri Dikansky

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 problem of the stability of magnetic fields in stars has a long history and has been investigated in detail in perturbation theory. Here we consider the nonlinear evolution of a non-rotating neutron star with a purely poloidal magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Riccardo Ciolfi , Samuel K. Lander , Gian Mario Manca , Luciano Rezzolla

Finding solutions for better mixing in microfluidics remains an important challenge, including understanding fundamental aspects of these processes. Here we investigate the magnetic micro-convection on water and miscible magnetic fluid…

The chiral magnetic effect emerges from a miroscopic level, and its interesting consequences have been discussed in the dynamics of the early universe, neutron stars and quark-gluon plasma. An instability is caused by anomalous electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Yasufumi Kojima , Yuri Miura

We investigate the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic perturbations in presence of stochastic noise in rotating shear flows. The particular emphasis is the flows whose angular velocity decreases but specific angular momentum increases with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 Sujit Kumar Nath

If a magnetic field normal to the surface of a magnetic fluid is increased beyond a critical value a spontaneous deformation of the surface arises (normal field instability). The instability is subcritical and leads to peaks of a…

patt-sol · Physics 2016-09-08 Thomas Mahr , Ingo Rehberg

Instability of a stratified two-phase MHD parallel flow between two infinite plates is addressed. We examine the effect of the transverse magnetic field on the base flow and long wave instability of a two-layer system consisting of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-25 Arseniy Parfenov , Alexander Gelfgat , Neima Brauner

Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities can be responsible for the formation of structures with various scales in astrophysical jets. We consider the stability properties of jets containing both the azimuthal and axial field of subthermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

We use the geometric optics approximation to derive the stability criteria for the Rayleigh shearing instability and the magnetorotational instability. We examine the cases where each criterion is relevant by looking into the magnitude of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-08 Konstantinos Palapanidis , Despoina Pazouli

We determine the growth rate of linear instabilities resulting from long-wavelength transverse perturbations applied to periodic nonlinear wave solutions to the Schamel-Korteweg-de Vries-Zakharov-Kuznetsov (SKdVZK) equation which governs…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 S. Phibanchon , M. A. Allen , G. Rowlands

In this research, the height, curvature and velocity of the bubble tip in Rayleigh-Taylor instability at arbitrary Atwood number with horizontal magnetic field are investigated. To support the earlier simulation and experimental results,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Rahul Banerjee

Building on our first paper in this series, we investigate the impact of radial magnetic fields and non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects - specifically, Ohmic resistivity, Hall drift, and ambipolar diffusion - on RWI unstable modes.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Can Cui , Zijin Wang

Stratified disks with strong horizontal magnetic fields are susceptible to magnetic buoyancy instability (MBI). Modifying the magnetic field and gas distributions, this can play an important role in galactic evolution. The MBI and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Yasin Qazi , Anvar Shukurov , Devika Tharakkal , Frederick A. Gent , Abhijit B. Bendre