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Recently it was shown that the centrifugal instability may be important in the dynamics of astrophysical jets undergoing reconfinement by external pressure. However, these studies were limited to the case of unmagnetised flows. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-21 Serguei S. Komissarov , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Jin Matsumoto

In the present paper, we study the evolutionary conditions for Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability in a high-temperature solar surge observed in NOAA AR11271 using the Solar Dynamics Observatory data on 2011 August 25. We study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 I. Zhelyazkov , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava , T. Mishonov

In the paradigm of magnetic acceleration of relativistic jets, one of the key points is identifying a viable mechanism to convert the Poynting flux into the kinetic energy of the plasma beyond equipartition. A promising candidate is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 E. Sobacchi , Y. E. Lyubarsky , M. C. Sormani

Linear stability theory (LST) is often used to model the large-scale flow structures in the turbulent mixing region and near pressure field of high-speed jets. For perfectly-expanded single round jets, these models predict the dominance of…

A magnetohydrodynamic model is constructed for a cylindrical jet immersed in an external uniform magnetic field. It is shown that, as in the force-free case, the total electric current within the jet can be zero. The particle energetics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vassily S. Beskin , Leonid Malyshkin

The 1-D Two-Fluid Model (TFM) promises a powerful and computationally cheap platform for simulating multi-fluid flow phenomena. However, runaway Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities plagued previous approaches, necessitating aphysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Alexander López-de-Bertodano , Alejandro Clausse

We investigate the linear stability of a sinusoidal shear flow with an initially uniform streamwise magnetic field in the framework of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with finite resistivity and viscosity. This flow is known to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Adrian E. Fraser , Imogen G. Cresswell , Pascale Garaud

We analyse numerically the linear stability of a liquid metal flow in a rectangular duct with perfectly electrically conducting walls subject to a uniform transverse magnetic field. A non-standard three dimensional vector stream…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-09-26 Jānis Priede , Svetlana Aleksandrova , Sergei Molokov

A minimalist approach to the linear stability problem in fluid dynamics is developed that ensures efficiency by utilizing only the essential elements required to find the eigenvalues for given boundary conditions. It is shown that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-06 Nektarios Vlahakis

Stability of cylindrical interface between two ideal incompressible fluids, including the magnetic field, surface tension and gravitational field is studied in linear approximation. We found that helical waves arising both in plasma comet…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 A. I. Ershkovich , P. L. Israelevich

We study the evolutionary conditions for Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability in a H-alpha solar surge observed in NOAA AR 8227 on 1998 May 30. The jet with speeds in the range of 45-50 km/s, width of 7 Mm, and electron number density of 3.83…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava , T. Mishonov

We present an analytical model for describing highly relativistic acceleration of magnetically driven jets, within the framework of ideal MHD for cold, stationary and axisymmetric outflows. Our novel procedure is to treat the wind equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Akira Tomimatsu , Masaaki Takahashi

We present relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations of stationary overpressured magnetized relativistic jets which are characterized by their dominant type of energy, namely internal, kinetic, or magnetic. Each model is threaded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Antonio Fuentes , José L. Gómez , José M. Martí , Manel Perucho

Many dynamic pipe flow simulator tools are capable of predicting the onset of hydrodynamic flow instability through detailed simulation. These instabilities provide a natural mechanism for flow regime transition. The quality and reliability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-29 Andreas Holm Akselsen

This article delves into the dynamics of inviscid annular supersonic jets, akin to those exiting converging-diverging nozzles in over-expanded regimes. It focuses on the first azimuthal Fourier mode of flow fluctuations and examines their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-14 Vincent Jaunet , Guillaume Lehnasch

We have investigated the influence of velocity shear and a radial density profile on the spatial development of the current driven kink instability along helically magnetized relativistic jets via three-dimensional relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Yosuke Mizuno , Philip E. Hardee , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is well known to be capable of converting well-ordered flows into more disordered, even turbulent, flows. As such it could represent a path by which the energy in, for example, bowshocks from stellar jets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-11-03 Aoife C. Jones , Turlough P. Downes

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

In this paper, we solve a long-standing open problem: nonlinear stability of current-vortex sheet in the ideal incompressible Magneto-Hydrodynamics under the linear stability condition. This result gives a first rigorous confirmation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Yongzhong Sun , Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

Strong observational evidence indicates that all extragalactic jets associated with AGNs move at relativistic speed up to 100 pc - 1 kpc scales from the nucleus. At larger distances, reflecting the Fanaroff-Riley radio source…

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