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It is shown that in external magnetic fields, a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy comes into being in a magnetoactive elastomer (MAE). The magnitude of the induced uniaxial anisotropy grows with the increasing external magnetic field. The filler…

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

The effect of magnetic shear and shear flow on local gravitationally induced instabilities is investigated. A simple model is constructed allowing for an arbitrary entropy gradient and a shear plasma flow in the Boussinesq approximation. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gregory G. Howes , Steven C. Cowley , James C. McWilliams

We study the influence of surface anisotropy on the zero-temperature hysteretic properties of a small single-domain magnetic particle, and give an estimation of the anisotropy constant for which deviations from the Stoner-Wohlfarth model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kachkachi , M. Dimian

The stability of toroidal magnetic fields in radiative stellar interiors is a key open problem in astrophysics. We investigate the Tayler instability of purely toroidal fields $B_\phi$ in a nonrotating, thermally stably stratified stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Domenico G. Meduri , Rainer Arlt , Alfio Bonanno , Giovanni Licciardello

Rich recirculation patterns have been recently discovered in the electrically conducting flow subject to a local external magnetic termed "the magnetic obstacle" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007), 144504]. This paper continues the study of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. V. Votyakov , S. C. Kassinos

We obtained the magnetic field configurations, including both poloidal and toroidal components, throughout the interior and exterior of magnetars using a realistic equation of state. We divided the magnetized star into the hydromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-01 Kotaro Fujisawa , Shota Kisaka

It is thought that magnetic fields must be present in the interiors of stars to resolve certain discrepancies between theory and observation (e.g. angular momentum transport), but such fields are difficult to detect and characterise.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Shyeh Tjing Loi

Topological magnetic textures are of great interest in various scientific and technological fields. To allow for precise control of nanoscale magnetism, it is of great importance to understand the role of intrinsic defects in the host…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Marcel Möller , John H. Gaida , Claus Ropers

Asymmetries and anisotropies are widespread in biological systems, including in the structure and dynamics of cilia and eukaryotic flagella. These microscopic, hair-like appendages exhibit asymmetric beating patterns that break…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-22 Bethany Clarke , Yongyun Hwang , Eric E Keaveny

We consider the three-dimensional instability of a layer of horizontal magnetic field in a polytropic atmosphere where, contrary to previous studies, the field lines in the initial state are not unidirectional. We show that if the twist is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 B. F. N. Favier , L. Jouve , W. Edmunds , L. J. Silvers , M. R. E. Proctor

Clusters of galaxies are embedded in halos of optically thin, gravitationally stratified, weakly magnetized plasma at the system's virial temperature. Due to radiative cooling and anisotropic heat conduction, such intracluster medium (ICM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 C. Nipoti , L. Posti , S. Ettori , M. Bianconi

Earth's magnetic field is generated by the liquid outer core and sensitively depends on the thermal conductivity of the core. The dominant component of the Earth's core is Fe and Ni. However, current estimates on FeNi mixtures have not been…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Wei-Jie Li , Zi Li , Yan-Bo Shi , Xian-Tu He , Cong Wang , Ping Zhang

We show that under very general conditions, cluster plasmas threaded by weak magnetic fields are subject to very fast growing plasma instabilities driven by the anisotropy of the plasma pressure (viscous stress) with respect to the local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , R. M. Kulsrud , G. W. Hammett , P. Sharma

The negative effective magnetic pressure instability discovered recently in direct numerical simulations (DNS) may play a crucial role in the formation of sunspots and active regions in the Sun and stars. This instability is caused by a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-30 Koen Kemel , Axel Brandenburg , Nathan Kleeorin , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Igor Rogachevskii

The buoyancy stability properties of the ICM are modified because of the anisotropic transport of heat along the magnetic field lines. This feature gives rise to the MTI when the temperature gradient is aligned with the gravity, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 J. M. Kempf , H. Latter

A weak fluctuating magnetic field embedded into a turbulent conducting medium grows exponentially while its characteristic scale decays. In the ISM and protogalactic plasmas, the magnetic Pr is very large, so a broad spectrum of growing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Schekochihin , Steven Cowley , Jason Maron , Leonid Malyshkin

The outer areas of Jupiter and Saturn have multiple zonal winds, reaching the high latitudes, that penetrate deep into the planets' interiors, as suggested by gravity measurements. These characteristics are replicable in numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Paula N. Wulff , Ulrich R. Christensen , Wieland Dietrich , Johannes Wicht

In this work, we compute the structure and composition of the inner crust of a neutron star in the presence of a strong magnetic field, such as it can be found in magnetars. To determine the geometry and characteristics of the crust…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-01 Luigi Scurto , Helena Pais , Francesca Gulminelli

We employ state-of-the-art ab initio simulations within the dynamical mean-field theory to study three likely phases of iron (hexogonal close-packed, hcp, face centered cubic, fcc, and body centered cubic, bcc) at the Earth's core…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-25 L. V. Pourovskii , T. Miyake , S. I. Simak , A. V. Ruban , L. Dubrovinsky , I. A. Abrikosov