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Using data obtained by the high resolution CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter instrument on the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, we investigate the dynamics and stability of quiet-Sun chromospheric jets observed at disk center. Small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 D. Kuridze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan , A. Hanslmeier

Transversal oscillations of spicules axes may be related to the propagation of magnetohydrodynamic waves along them. These waves may become unstable and the instability can be of the Kelvin-Helmholtz type. We use the dispersion relation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Ajabshirizadeh , H. Ebadi , R. E. Vekalati , K. Molaverdikhani

Magnetic field strengths inferred for relativistic outflows including gamma-ray bursts (GRB) and active galactic nuclei (AGN) are larger than naively expected by orders of magnitude. We present three-dimensional relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Weiqun Zhang , Andrew MacFadyen , Peng Wang

The early-time interface instabilities in high intensity (high Weber number and high Reynolds number) aero-breakup of a liquid drop are investigated by numerical simulations. A combined analysis based on simulation results and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-07 X. Y. Hu , N. A. Adams

We perform a suite of two- and three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with the Athena code of the non-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the subsonic, weak magnetic field limit. Focusing the analysis on the non-linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Greg Salvesen , Kris Beckwith , Jacob B. Simon , Sean M. O'Neill , Mitchell C. Begelman

The modelling of astrophysical systems such as binary neutron star mergers or the formation of magnetars from the collapse of massive stars involves the numerical evolution of magnetised fluids at extremely large Reynolds numbers. This is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-20 Miquel Miravet-Tenés , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Martin Obergaulinger , José A. Font

We study here the arising of Kelvin--Helmholtz Instability (KHI) in one fast jet of 2014 April 16 observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in different UV and EUV wavelengths. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 M. Bogdanova , I. Zhelyazkov , R. Joshi , R. Chandra

The stability of the heliopause, the tangential discontinuity separating the solar wind from the interstellar medium, is influenced by various processes, including the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. This study investigates the role of charge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 A. V. Titova , S. D. Korolkov , V. V. Izmodenov

Interfacial stability is important for many processes involving heat and mass transfer across two immiscible phases. When this transfer takes place in the form of evaporation of a binary solution with one component being more volatile than…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Ricardo Arturo Lopez de la Cruz , Christian Diddens , Xuehua Zhang , Detlef Lohse

Recent observations support the propagation of a number of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes which, under some conditions, can become unstable and the developing instability is the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability (KHI). In its nonlinear stage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 Ivan Zhelyazkov , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi

We study the linear theory of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a layer of ions and neutrals with finite thickness. In the short wavelength limit the thickness of the layer has a negligible effect on the growing modes. However, perturbations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mohsen Shadmehri , Turlough P. Downes

The origin of the magnetic field in some systems like AGNs or GRBs is still an open question in astrophysics. A possible mechanism to explain the magnetic field generation is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, since it is able to transform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-30 Oscar M. Pimentel , F. D. Lora-Clavijo

Context. Classical novae are explosive phenomena that take place in stellar binary systems. They are powered by mass transfer from a low-mass main sequence star onto a white dwarf (either CO or ONe). The material accumulates for 10+4 - 10+5…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Jordi Casanova , Jordi Jose , Steven N. Shore

An evolution of a spherical region, subjected to uniform buoyancy force, is investigated. Incompressibility and axial symmetry are assumed, together with a buoyancy discontinuity at the boundary. The boundary turns into a vortex sheet and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-12 Paweł Jędrejko , Jun-Ichi Yano , Marta Wacławczyk

The stability of thin homogeneous gaseous disk with step discontinuity of velocity and density profile has been investigated analytically in the limitary case of large compressibility and numerically at spatially separated velocity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Bezborodov , J. V. Mustsevaya , V. V. Mustsevoy

The shear-flow-driven instability can play an important role in energy transfer processes in coronal plasma. We present for the first time the observation of a kink-like oscillation of a streamer probably caused by the streaming kinkmode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Li Feng , Bernd Inhester , Weiqun Gan

We study the stability of shear flows in a fully ionized plasma. Kelvin-Helmholtz is a well known, macroscopic and ideal shear-driven instability. In sufficiently low density plasmas, also the microscopic Hall magneto-shear instability can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-27 Daniel O. Gomez , Cecilia Bejarano , Pablo D. Mininni

Turbulent flows over dense canopies of rigid filaments of small size are investigated for different element heights and spacings using DNS. The flow can be decomposed into the element-coherent, dispersive flow, the Kelvin--Helmholtz-like…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-21 Akshath Sharma , Ricardo García-Mayoral

We study the effects of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) on the cold streams that feed high-redshift galaxies through their hot haloes, generalizing our earlier analyses of a 2D slab to a 3D cylinder, but still limiting our analysis to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Nir Mandelker , Daisuke Nagai , Han Aung , Avishai Dekel , Dan Padnos , Yuval Birnboim

We present an analytic toy model for the radiation produced by the interaction between the cold streams thought to feed massive halos at high redshift and their hot CGM. We begin by deriving cosmologically motivated parameters for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Nir Mandelker , Frank C. van den Bosch , Daisuke Nagai , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim , Han Aung