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The magnetic network which consists of vertical flux tubes located in intergranular lanes is dominated by Hall drift in the photosphere-lower chromosphere region ($\lesssim 1 Mm$). In the internetwork regions, Hall drift dominates above…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-11 B. P. Pandey , Mark Wardle

Global linear stability analysis of a self-similar solution describing the interaction of a relativistic shell with an ambient medium is performed. The solution is shown to be unstable to convective Rayleigh-Taylor modes having angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Amir Levinson

In this paper we discuss the development of Rayleigh-Taylor filaments in axisymmetric simulations of Pulsar wind nebulae (PWN). High-resolution adaptive mesh refinement magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to resolve the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Oliver Porth , Serguei Komissarov , Rony Keppens

In this paper we study the scaling relations for the triggering of the fast, or "ideal", tearing instability starting from equilibrium configurations relevant to astrophysical as well as laboratory plasmas that differ from the simple Harris…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Fulvia Pucci , Marco Velli , Anna Tenerani , Daniele Del Sarto

Small-scale dynamos are ubiquitous in a broad range of turbulent flows with large-scale shear, ranging from solar and galactic magnetism to accretion disks, cosmology and structure formation. Using high-resolution direct numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-13 Nishant K. Singh , Igor Rogachevskii , Axel Brandenburg

We investigate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability occuring at the interface of a shear flow configuration in 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The linear growth and the subsequent non-linear saturation of the instability are studied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Keppens , G. Toth , R. H. J. Westermann , J. P. Goedbloed

Guo--Tice formally established in 2011 that the Rayleigh--Taylor instability inevitably occurs within stratified compressible viscous fluids in a slab domain $\mathbb{R}^2\times (h_-,h_+)$, irrespecive of the presence of interfacial surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Fei Jiang , Han Jiang , Song Jiang

The stability of a sheared magnetic field is analyzed in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics with resistive and viscous dissipation. Using a multiple-scale analysis, it is shown that at large enough Reynolds numbers the basic state…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Boffetta , A. Celani , R. Prandi

Bearing in mind the application to core-collapse supernovae, we study nonlinear properties of the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) by means of three- dimensional simulations in the framework of a local shearing box approximation. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Y. Masada , T. Takiwaki , K. Kotake , T. Sano

Aims. We examine the interactions of various instabilities in rotating stars, which usually are considered as independent. Methods. An analytical study of the problem is performed, account is given to radiative losses, mu-gradients and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 André Maeder , Georges Meynet , Nadège Lagarde , Corinne Charbonnel

Rotational mixing, the key process in stellar evolution, transports angular momentum and chemical elements in stellar radiative zones. In the past two decades, an emphasis has been placed on the turbulent transport induced by the vertical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Junho Park , Vincent Prat , Stéphane Mathis

We study the stability of Hall MHD with strong magnetic fields in which Landau quantization of electrons is important. We find that the strong-field Hall modes can be destabilized by the dependence of the differential magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 Peter B. Rau , Ira Wasserman

We examine the linear stability of a shear flow driven by wind stress at the free surface and rotation at the lower boundary, mimicking oceanic flows influenced by surface winds and rotation of Earth. The linearised eigenvalue problem is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 S. Preethi , Ankush Kamboj , Ramkarn Patne , P. A. L. Narayana , Kirti Chandra Sahu

Magnetic twist is thought to play an important role in many structures of the solar atmosphere. One of the effects of twist is to modify the properties of the eigenmodes of magnetic tubes. In the linear regime standing kink solutions are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 J. Terradas , N. Magyar , T. Van Doorsselaere

We perform idealised numerical simulations of magnetic buoyancy instabilities in a model of the solar tachocline. We introduce a simplified model of magnetic flux pumping in an upper layer (the convection zone), and study the effects of its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Adrian J. Barker , Lara J. Silvers , Michael R. E. Proctor , Nigel O. Weiss

Evolution of the single-mode ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the presence of preheating is investigated numerically. It is found that the instability evolution depends strongly on the preheating length $L$ in front of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 W. H. Ye , X. T. He , W. Y. Zhang , M. Y. Yu

The initial magnetic field of previous magnetorotational instability (MRI) simulations has always included a significant system-scale component, even if stochastic. However, it is of conceptual and practical interest to assess whether the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-13 Pallavi Bhat , Fatima Ebrahimi , Eric G. Blackman , Kandaswamy Subramanian

The linear growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at ionization fronts is investigated via perturbation analysis in the limit of incompressible fluids. In agreement with previous numerical studies is found that absorption of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Massimo Ricotti

The stability of nonaxisymmetric perturbations in differentially rotating astrophysical accretion disks is analyzed by fully incorporating the properties of shear flows. We verify the presence of discrete unstable eigenmodes with complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Noguchi , T. Tajima , R. Matsumoto

Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) as a multi-scale, strongly nonlinear physical phenomenon which plays an important role in the engineering applications and scientific research. In this paper, the mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann method is used…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-14 Bin Liu , Chunhua Zhang , Qin Lou , Hong Liang