English
Related papers

Related papers: Diffusive MHD Instabilities: Beyond the Chandrasek…

200 papers

We study local instabilities of a differentially rotating viscous flow of electrically conducting incompressible fluid subject to an external azimuthal magnetic field. In the presence of the magnetic field the hydrodynamically stable flow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Oleg N. Kirillov

The present study is concerned with the stability of a flow of viscous conducting liquid driven by pressure gradient in the channel between two parallel walls subject to a transverse magnetic field. Although the magnetic field has a strong…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-04 Jonathan Hagan , Jānis Priede

We present a linear analysis of the radiative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in the presence of magnetic field for both optically thin and thick regimes. When the flow is optically thin, magnetic field not only stabilizes perturbations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Mohsen Shadmehri

In the paper we comment on (R\"udiger & Shalybkov, Phys. Rev. E. 69, 016303 (2004) (RS)), the instability of the Taylor--Couette flow interacting with a homogeneous background field subject to Hall effect is studied. We correct a falsely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Rheinhardt , U. Geppert

During the last decade it has become evident that the magnetorotational instability is at the heart of the enhanced angular momentum transport in weakly magnetized accretion disks around neutron stars and black holes. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin E. Pessah , Dimitrios Psaltis

The research is devoted to the stability of convective flow in a nonuniformly rotating layer of an electrically conducting fluid in a spiral magnetic field. The stationary and oscillatory modes of magnetic convection are considered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

We study the linear stability of a planar interface separating two fluids in relative motion, focusing on the symmetric configuration where the two fluids have the same properties (density, temperature, magnetic field strength, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-07 Anthony Chow , Michael E. Rowan , Lorenzo Sironi , Jordy Davelaar , Gianluigi Bodo , Ramesh Narayan

We study the stability of a compressible differentially rotating flows in the presence of the magnetic field, and we show that the compressibility profoundly alters the previous results for a magnetized incompressible flow. The necessary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Bonanno , V. Urpin

In this paper, we investigate the Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid flows rotating with an constant angular velocity, and evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Ran Duan , Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

We investigate inviscid instability in an electrically conducting fluid affected by a parallel magnetic field. The case of low magnetic Reynolds number in Poiseuille flow is considered. When the magnetic field is sufficiently strong, for a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-22 A. V. Monwanou , J. B. Chabi Orou

The incompressible boundary layer in the axial flow past a cylinder has been shown Tutty et. al.(\cite{tutty}) to be stabler than a two-dimensional boundary layer, with the helical mode being the least stable. In this paper the secondary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-25 N. Vinod , Rama Govindarajan

We show, by means of a perturbative weakly nonlinear analysis, that the axisymmetric magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in a magnetic Taylor-Couette (mTC) flow in a thin-gap gives rise, for very small magnetic Prandtl numbers (P_m), to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Regev

We establish criteria of stability and instability for the stratified compressible magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem. More precisely, if under the stability condition $\Xi <1$, we show the existence of unique solution with algebraic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

We study the instability of a B\'enard layer subject to a vertical uniform magnetic field, in which the fluid obeys the Maxwell-Cattaneo (MC) heat flux-temperature relation. We extend the work of Bissell (Proc. R. Soc. A, 472: 20160649,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-15 I. A. Eltayeb , D. W. Hughes , M. R. E. Proctor

The aim of this paper is to give a result concerning the stability properties of the solutions of magnetohydrodynamics equations at small but finite Reynolds numbers. These solutions are found using the alpha-effect: this method gives us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Ismaël Bouya

Conditions of Velikhov-Chandrasekhar magneto-rotational instability in ideal and non-ideal plasmas are examined. Linear WKB analysis of hydromagnetic axially symmetric flows shows that in the Rayleigh-unstable hydrodynamic case where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 N. I. Shakura , K. A. Postnov

An analytical theory is presented for linear, local, short-wavelength instabilities in swirling flows, in which axial shear, differential rotation, radial thermal stratification, viscosity, and thermal diffusivity are all taken into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-10 Oleg N. Kirillov , Innocent Mutabazi

This paper studies the instability of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) systems on a sphere using analytical methods. The underlying flow consists of a zonal differential rotation and a toroidal magnetic field is present. Semicircle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Chen Wang , Andrew D. Gilbert , Joanne Mason

We study the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations near Couette flow with a constant magnetic field perpendicular to the shear plane. Couette flow induces mixing and generates magnetic induction, while the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Niklas Knobel

A theory of the macroturbulent instability in the system containing vortices of opposite directions (vortices and antivortices) in hard superconductors is proposed. The origin of the instability is connected with the anisotropy of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 L. M. Fisher , T. H. Johansen , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. A. Levchenko , V. A. Yampol'skii
‹ Prev 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 Next ›