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We represent the outermost shear interface of an eddy by a circular vortex sheet in two dimensions, and provide a new proof of linear instability via the Birkhoff-Rott equation. Like planar vortex sheets, circular sheets are found to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-16 Galen Wilcox , Ryan Murray

We consider the Kelvin-Helmholtz system describing the evolution of a vortex-sheet near the circular stationary solution. Answering previous numerical conjectures in the 90s physics literature, we prove an almost global existence result for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Federico Murgante , Emeric Roulley , Stefano Scrobogna

We present an open-source Python library for simulating two-dimensional incompressible Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in stratified shear flows. The solver employs a fractional-step projection method with spectral Poisson solution via Fast…

We compare the results for a set of hydrodynamical tests performed with the AMR finite volume code, MG and the SPH code, SEREN. The test suite includes shock tube tests, with and without cooling, the non-linear thin-shell instability and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. A. Hubber , S. A. E. G. Falle , S. P. Goodwin

This article revisits the instability of sharp shear interfaces, also called vortex sheets, in incompressible fluid flows. We study the Birkhoff-Rott equation, which describes the motion of vortex sheets according to the incompressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-06 Ryan Murray , Galen Wilcox

We examine the effect of the dust size distribution on Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in the protoplanetary disk with dust sedimentation. With newly taking into account the dust size distribution, the growth rate of the Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yukihiko Hasegawa , Toru Tsuribe

We study the dynamical system of a forced stratified mixing layer at finite Reynolds number $Re$, and Prandtl number $Pr=1$. We consider a hyperbolic tangent background velocity profile in the two cases of hyperbolic tangent and uniform…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 J. P. Parker , C. P. Caulfield , R. R. Kerswell

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability occurring in a single shear flow configuration that is embedded in a uniform flow-aligned magnetic field, is revisited by means of high resolution two-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Baty , R. Keppens , P. Comte

The deterministic inviscid primitive equations (also called the hydrostatic Euler equations) are known to be ill-posed in Sobolev spaces and in Gevrey classes of order strictly greater than 1, and some of their analytic solutions exist only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Ruimeng Hu , Quyuan Lin , Rongchang Liu

The 1-D Two-Fluid Model (TFM) promises a powerful and computationally cheap platform for simulating multi-fluid flow phenomena. However, runaway Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities plagued previous approaches, necessitating aphysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Alexander López-de-Bertodano , Alejandro Clausse

The boundaries identification of Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices in observational data has been addressed by searching for single-spacecraft small-scale signatures. A recent hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell simulation of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability has…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 A. Settino , D. Perrone , Yu. V. Khotyaintsev , D. B. Graham , F. Valentini

The method of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) has been widely studied and implemented for a large variety of problems, ranging from astrophysics to fluid dynamics and elasticity problems in solids. However, the method is known to have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-16 Ruslan F. Gabbasov , Jaime Klapp-Escribano , Joel Suarez-Cansino , Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti

We investigate through high resolution 3D simulations the nonlinear evolution of compressible magnetohydrodynamic flows subject to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. We confirm in 3D flows the conclusion from our 2D work that even apparently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones , Adam Frank

Paraxial propagation of a quasi-monochromatic light wave with two circular polarizations in a defocusing Kerr medium with anomalous dispersion inside a waveguide of annular cross-section was considered. In the phase-separated mode, the…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-18 Victor P. Ruban

As dust settles in a protoplanetary disk, a vertical shear develops because the dust-rich gas in the midplane orbits at a rate closer to true Keplerian than the slower-moving dust-depleted gas above and below. A classical analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joseph A. Barranco

The long term magnetohydrodynamic stability of magnetized transonic/supersonic jets is numerically investigated using a spatial approach. We focus on two-dimensional linearly-unstable slab configurations where the jet is embedded in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-26 M. Viallet , H. Baty

We derive here a new stability criterion for two-fluid interfaces. This criterion ensures the existence of "stable" local solutions that do no break down too fast due to Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. It can be seen both as a two-fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 David Lannes

GenASiS (General Astrophysical Simulation System) is a new code being developed initially and primarily, though by no means exclusively, for the simulation of core-collapse supernovae on the world's leading capability supercomputers. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-09 Christian Y. Cardall , Reuben D. Budiardja , Eirik Endeve , Anthony Mezzacappa

We investigate the hydrodynamics of the interaction of two supersonic winds in binary systems. The collision of the winds creates two shocks separated by a contact discontinuity. The overall structure depends on the momentum flux ratio eta…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Astrid Lamberts , Sebastien Fromang , Guillaume Dubus

We describe the algorithm, implementation and numerical tests of a multifluid dust module in the Athena++ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code. The module can accommodate an arbitrary number of dust species interacting with the gas via…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Pinghui Huang , Xue-Ning Bai