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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. The material piles up under degenerate conditions and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jordi Casanova , Jordi Jose , Enrique Garcia-Berro , Alan Calder , Steven N. Shore

In the present review article, we discuss the recent developments in studying the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating in various solar magnetic structures. The main description is on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 I. Zhelyazkov

High-resolution spectroscopy has revealed large concentrations of CNO and sometimes other intermediate-mass elements in the shells ejected during nova outbursts, suggesting that the solar composition material transferred from the secondary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Jordi Jose , Steven N. Shore , Jordi Casanova

The linear MHD Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in an anisotropic plasma concerning the direction of an external magnetic field is examined in detail. For this purpose, the MHD equations are used to describe the motion of plasma as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 N. S. Dzhalilov , R. Ismayilli

Prominences are incredibly dynamic across the whole range of their observable spatial scales, with observations revealing gravity-driven fluid instabilities, waves, and turbulence. With all these complex motions, it would be expected that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Andrew Hillier , Vanessa Polito

We study the dynamical system of a forced stratified mixing layer at finite Reynolds number $Re$, and Prandtl number $Pr=1$. We consider a hyperbolic tangent background velocity profile in the two cases of hyperbolic tangent and uniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 J. P. Parker , C. P. Caulfield , R. R. Kerswell

An initial-and boundary-value problem for the Kelvin-Voigt system, modeling a mixture of n incompressible and viscoelastic fluids, with non-constant density, is investigated in this work. The existence of global-in-time weak solutions is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-13 S. N. Antontsev , H. B. de Oliveira , I. V. Kuznetsov , D. A. Prokudin , Kh. Khompysh

We perform two-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of coronal jets driven by flux emergence along the lower boundary. The reconnection layers are susceptible the formation of blobs that are ejected in the jet. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Lei Ni , Qing-Min Zhang , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

This work investigates the short wavelength stability of the magnetopause between a rapidly-rotating, supersonic, dense accretion disc and a slowly-rotating low-density magnetosphere of a magnetized star. The magnetopause is a strong shear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , W. I. Newman

A three-dimensional round liquid jet within a low-speed coaxial gas flow is numerically simulated and explained via vortex dynamics ($\lambda_2$ method). The instabilities on the liquid-gas interface reflect well the vortex interactions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-28 Arash Zandian , William A. Sirignano , Fazle Hussain

The interaction of optically emitting clouds with warm X-ray gas and hot, tenuous radio plasma in radio jet cocoons is modelled by 2D compressible hydrodynamic simulations. The initial setup is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Krause , Paul Alexander

We analyze the stability of dust layer in protoplanetary disk to understand the effect of the relative motion between gas and dust. The previous analyses not including the effect of relative motion between gas and dust show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shugo Michikoshi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The outer envelopes of massive ($M\gtrsim10\,M_{\odot}$) stars exhibit large increases in opacities from forests of lines and ionization transitions (particularly from iron and helium) that trigger near-surface convection zones.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 William Schultz , Lars Bildsten , Yan-Fei Jiang

Non-spherical explosions develop non-radial flows as the pattern of shock emergence progresses across the stellar surface. In supernovae these flows can limit ejecta speeds, stifle shock breakout emission, and cause collisions outside the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Pegah Salbi , Christopher D. Matzner , Stephen Ro , Yuri Levin

The effect of optically thin radiative cooling on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of three dimensional jets is investigated via linear stability theory and nonlinear hydrodynamical simulation. Two different cooling functions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jianjun Xu , Philip Hardee , James Stone

Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 Chih-Yueh Wang , Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko

In this paper, we present an analysis of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in two-dimensional ideal compressible elastic flows, providing a rigorous confirmation that weak elasticity has a destabilizing effect on the Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Binqiang Xie , Boling Guo , Bin Zhao

We investigate the conditions under which the fluting ($m = 2$), $m = 3$, and $m = 12$ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in a uniformly twisted flux tube moving along its axis become unstable in order to model the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili , L. Ofman , R. Chandra

The enormous sizes and variability of emission of radio-loud AGNs arise from the relativistic flows of plasma along two oppositely directed jets. We use the Athena hydrodynamics code to simulate an extensive suite of 54 propagating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Yutong Li , Paul J. Wiita , Terance Schuh , Geena Elghossain , Shaoming Hu

In a recent experiment Finne et al. discovered an intrinsic condition for the onset of quantum turbulence in $^3$He-B, that q=alpha/(1-alpha')<1, where alpha and alpha' are mutual friction parameters. The authors argued that this condition…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. L. Henderson , C. F. Barenghi