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We study the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability in three dimensions, with focus on the nonlinear structure and evolution that results from different initial field configurations. We study strong fields in the sense that the critical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas Gardiner

The tearing mode instability is one important mechanism that may explain the triggering of fast magnetic reconnection in astrophysical plasmas such as the solar corona and the Earth's magnetosphere. In this paper, the linear stability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Chen Shi , Marco Velli , Fulvia Pucci , Anna Tenerani , Maria Elena Innocenti

The linear stability analysis of an optically thin plasma where a general reaction proceeds, including chemical relaxation time effects, is carried out . A fifth order dispersion equation (instead of the fourth order one resulting when such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel H. Iba~nez S.

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a magnetic fluid superimposed on a non-magnetic liquid of lower density may be suppressed with the help of a spatially homogeneous magnetic field rotating in the plane of the undisturbed interface.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Rannacher , A. Engel

We develop a novel multiscale model of interface motion for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) for two-dimensional, inviscid, compressible flows with vorticity, which yields a fast-running…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Raag Ramani , Steve Shkoller

In this work we suggest that a turbulent phase of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability can be explained as a universal stochastic wave traveling with constant speed in a properly renormalized system. This wave, originating from ordinary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-16 Alexei A. Mailybaev

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

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is a key process in many fields of Physics ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. It is usually analyzed deriving the linearized fluid equations, but the physics behind the instability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A Bret

The `Rayleigh line' $\mu=\eta^2$, where $\mu=\Omega_o/\Omega_i$ and $\eta=r_i/r_o$ are respectively the rotation and radius ratios between inner (subscript `i') and outer (subscript `o') cylinders, is regarded as marking the limit of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-12 Colin Leclercq , Florian Nguyen , Rich R. Kerswell

The large Reynolds number asymptotic approximation of the neutral curve of Taylor-Couette flow subject to axial uniform magnetic field is analysed. The flow has been extensively studied since early 90's as the magneto-rotational instability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-27 Kengo Deguchi

In this paper, we are interested in the nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for the gravity-driven incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier-slip boundary conditions around a smooth increasing density profile $\rho_0(x_2)$ in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Tien-Tai Nguyen

We develop a theory of buoyancy instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with the heat flux based on not the MHD equations, but using the multicomponent plasma approach. We investigate a geometry in which the background magnetic field,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-03-02 Anatoly K. Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

The Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability develops and leads to turbulence when a heavy fluid falls under the action of gravity through a light one. We consider this phenomenon accompanied by a reactive transformation between the fluids, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Chertkov , V. Lebedev , N. Vladimirova

Unlike the power-law model, the Ellis model describes the apparent viscosity of a shear-thinning fluid with no singularity in the limit of a vanishingly small shear stress. In particular, this model matches the Newtonian behaviour when the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-03 Michele Celli , Antonio Barletta , Pedro V. Brandão

We investigate the effect of surface tension on the linear Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability in stratified incompressible viscous fluids with or without (interface) surface tension. The existence of linear RT instability solutions with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Changsheng Dou , Jialiang Wang , Weiwei Wang

We present a study of the Rayleigh-Taylor unstable regime of accretion onto rotating magnetized stars in a set of high grid resolution three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations performed in low-viscosity discs. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 A. A. Blinova , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

We model the intracluster medium as a weakly collisional plasma that is a binary mixture of the hydrogen and the helium ions, along with free electrons. When, owing to the helium sedimentation, the gradient of the mean molecular weight (or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Himanshu Gupta , Anya Chaudhuri , Shubhadeep Sadhukhan , Sagar Chakraborty

The effect of the Hall term on the evolution of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in weakly ionized accretion disks is investigated using local axisymmetric simulations. First, we show that the Hall term has important effects on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Takayoshi Sano , James M. Stone

We analyze the stability of a thin plasma disk which is rotating around a compact astrophysical object and is embedded in the strong magnetic field of such a source. The aim of this study is the determination of a new type of unstable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Benini , Nakia Carlevaro , Alessio Franco

The paper presents a review of dynamic stabilization mechanisms for plasma instabilities. One of the dynamic stabilization mechanisms for plasma instability was proposed in the papers [Phys. Plasmas 19, 024503(2012) and references therein],…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Kawata , T. Karino , Y. J. Gu