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Active Stokesian suspensions are conventionally understood to generate dipolar stresses that destabilize aligned states in the bulk and drive system-wide spatiotemporally chaotic flows. Here, we report dynamics in suspensions of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-26 Seema Chahal , Brato Chakrabarti

We present a detailed study of localised magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) instabilities occuring in two--dimensional magnetized accretion disks. We model axisymmetric MHD disk tori, and solve the equations governing a two--dimensional magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 J. W. S. Blokland , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

A stochastic flow representation is considered with the Eulerian velocity decomposed between a smooth large scale component and a rough small-scale turbulent component. The latter is specified as a random field uncorrelated in time.…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Valentin Resseguier , Etienne Mémin , Bertrand Chapron

We report experimental results on elastic instability in a viscoelastic channel shear flow due to only a natural non-smoothed inlet and small holes along the channel for pressure measurements. We show that non-normal mode instability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-31 Yuke Li , Victor Steinberg

We investigate axisymmetric steady solutions of (magneto)hydrodynamics equations that describe approximately accretion flows through a standing shock wave and discuss the effects of rotation and magnetic field on the revival of the stalled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Kotaro Fujisawa , Hirotada Okawa , Yu Yamamoto , Shoichi Yamada

Special features of magnetohydrodynamic waves linear dynamics in smooth shear flows are studied. Quantitative asymptotic and numerical analysis are performed for wide range of system parameters when basic flow has constant shear of velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Gogoberidze , G. D. Chagelishvili , R. Z. Sagdeev , D. G. Lominadze

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic buoyancy instability in rotating and non-rotating gas layers using numerical solutions of non-ideal, isothermal MHD equations. The unstable magnetic field is either imposed through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Yasin Qazi , Anvar Shukurov , Devika Tharakkal , Frederick A. Gent

Spherical (nonrotating) accretion flows with small-scale magnetic fields have been investigated using three-dimensional, time-dependent MHD simulations. These simulations have been designed to model high-resolution (quasi) steady accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor V. Igumenshchev

Rotating waves (RW) bifurcating from the axisymmetric basic magnetized spherical Couette (MSC) flow are computed by means of Newton-Krylov continuation techniques for periodic orbits. In addition, their stability is analysed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-06 Ferran Garcia , Frank Stefani

In a hot, dilute, magnetized accretion flow, the electron mean-free path can be much greater than the Larmor radius, thus thermal conduction is anisotropic and along magnetic field lines. In this case, if the temperature decreases outward,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , James M Stone

Magnetic flux tubes such as those in the solar corona are subject to a number of instabilities. Important among them is the kink instability which plays a central part in the nanoflare theory of coronal heating, and for this reason in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 James Quinn , Radostin D. Simitev

We study anomalous magnetohydrodynamics in a longitudinal boost invariant Bjorken flow with constant anisotropic electric conductivities as outlined in Ref. [1]. For simplicity, we consider a neutral fluid and a force-free magnetic field in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Ren-jie Wang , Patrick Copinger , Shi Pu

Magnetic reconnection and turbulence are deeply intertwined in magnetohydrodynamic flows, yet how reconnection self-generates turbulence remains unclear. Using an ensemble of high-resolution three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Nick Williams , Alessandro De Rosis , Alex Skillen

We have extended our study of the competition between the drive and stabilization of plasma microinstabilities by sheared flow to include electromagnetic effects at low plasma $\beta$ (the ratio of plasma to magnetic pressure). The extended…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. D. J. Cole , S. L. Newton , S. C. Cowley , N. F. Loureiro , D. Dickinson , C. Roach , J. W. Connor

In the study of plasma, particularly in applications involving strong laser-plasma interactions, the propagation of a strong electromagnetic wave induces relativistic velocities in the electron flow. Given such conditions, the wave…

In this paper, we study the generation of eigenvalues of a stable monotonic shear flow under perturbations in $C^s$ with $s<2$. More precisely, we study the Rayleigh operator $\mathcal{L}_{U_{m,\gamma}}=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Daniel Sinambela , Weiren Zhao

This study investigates the influence of shear-thinning on the instability of a prototype time-periodic flow, the Stokes layer, in Carreau fluids. The time-dependent base flow was solved using a numerical method and a binomial expansion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-06 Mengqi Zhang , Dongdong Wan , Huanshu Tan

We consider barotropic instability of shear flows for incompressible fluids with Coriolis effects. For a class of shear flows, we develop a new method to find the sharp stability conditions. We study the flow with Sinus profile in details…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Zhiwu Lin , Jincheng Yang , Hao Zhu

A new type of instability that is expected to drive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence from a purely toroidal magnetic field in an accretion disk is presented. It is already known that in a differentially rotating system, the uniform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Kota Hirabayashi , Masahiro Hoshino

The dynamics of stably stratified stellar radiative zones is of considerable interest due to the availability of increasingly detailed observations of Solar and stellar interiors. This article reports the first non-axisymmetric and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-13 Radostin D. Simitev , Friedrich H. Busse