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An analysis of MHD wave propagating in a gravitating and rotating medium permeated by non-uniform magnetic field has been done. It has been found that the Gradient of Magnetic Field when coupled with Rotation becomes capable to generate few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-29 Ipsita Das , Ramaprosad Bondyopadhaya

Magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the emergence of twisted magnetic flux tubes from the solar interior into the corona are discussed to illustrate how twisted and sheared coronal magnetic structures (with free magnetic energy),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-29 Yuhong Fan

We carry out a linear stability analysis of a magnetized relativistic rotating cylindrical jet flow using the approximation of zero thermal pressure. We identify several modes of instability in the jet: Kelvin-Helmholtz, current driven and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Gianluigi Bodo , George Mamatsashvili , Paola Rossi , Andrea Mignone

When a barotropic shear layer becomes unstable, it produces the well known Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KH). The non-linear manifestation of KH is usually in the form of spiral billows. However, a piecewise linear shear layer produces a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Anirban Guha , Mona Rahmani , Gregory A. Lawrence

A 2D linear theory of the instability of Sweet-Parker (SP) current sheets is developed in the framework of Reduced MHD. A local analysis is performed taking into account the dependence of a generic equilibrium profile on the outflow…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. F. Loureiro , A. A. Schekochihin , D. A. Uzdensky

We present a comprehensive study of MHD waves and instabilities in a weakly ionised system, e.g., an interstellar molecular cloud. We determine all the critical wavelengths of perturbations across which the sustainable wave modes can change…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-01 Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias , Glenn E. Ciolek , S. A. Morton

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves have been observed frequently in solar coronal flux tubes, which makes them a great tool for seismology of the solar corona. Here, the effect of viscosity is studied on the evolution of kink waves. To…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Zanyar Ebrahimi , Roberto Soler , Kayoomars Karami

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

We investigate the effects of viscosity and heat conduction on the onset and growth of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) via an efficient discrete Boltzmann model. Technically, two effective approaches are presented to quantitatively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-02 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Chuandong Lin , Huilin Lai , Zhipeng Liu

Studies on small-scale jets' formation, propagation, evolution, and role, such as type I and II spicules, mottles, and fibrils in the lower solar atmosphere's energetic balance, have progressed tremendously thanks to the combination of…

A self-consistent, thermodynamic approach is employed to derive the wave energy of a magnetohydrodynamic system within the harmonic approximation and to obtain the familiar dispersion relation from the resulting equation of motion. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Chatterjee , P. S. Joarder

In this paper, we present a numerical simulation of an impulsively driven chromospheric jet in the solar atmosphere using the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations coupled with frequency- and angle-averaged radiation transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 J. J. González-Avilés

MHD waves are ubiquitous in the solar corona where the highly structured magnetic fields provide efficient wave guides for their propagation. While MHD waves have been observed originating from lower layers of the solar atmosphere, recent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 P. Pagano , H. J. Van Damme , P. Antolin , I. De Moortel

2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are performed with high spatial resolution in order to distinguish between competing models of the coronal heating problem. A single coronal loop powered by Alfv\'{e}n waves excited in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Takuma Matsumoto

Quiescent solar prominences show distinct small-scale dynamics in observations. Their internal density contrasts with the surrounding corona make them susceptible to Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities, leading to vertically structured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Madhurjya Changmai , Jack M. Jenkins , Rony Keppens

As part of our long-term campaign to understand how cold streams feed massive galaxies at high redshift, we study the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) of a supersonic, cold, dense gas stream as it penetrates through a hot, dilute…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Dan Padnos , Nir Mandelker , Yuval Birnboim , Avishai Dekel , Mark R. Krumholz , Elad Steinberg

The solar corona has been revealed in the past decade to be a highly dynamic nonequilibrium plasma environment. Both the loop-filled coronal base and the extended acceleration region of the solar wind appear to be strongly turbulent, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven R. Cranmer

We have investigated magnetic field generation in velocity shears via the kinetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (kKHI) using a relativistic plasma jet core and stationary plasma sheath. Our three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-08 K. -I. Nishikawa , P. E. Hardee , I. Dutan , J. Niemiec , M. Medvedev , Y. Mizuno , A. Meli , H. Sol , B. Zhang , M. Pohl , D. H. Hartmann

Electron-scale Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (ESKHI) are found in several astrophysical scenarios. Naturally ESKHI is subject to a background magnetic field, but an analytical dispersion relation and an accurate growth rate of ESKHI under…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Yao Guo , Dong Wu , Jie Zhang

Hydrodynamic stability has been a longstanding issue for the cloud model of the broad line region in active galactic nuclei. We argue that the clouds may be gravitationally bound to the supermassive black hole. If true, stabilisation by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Martin Krause , Marc Schartmann , Andreas Burkert