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Transversal oscillations of spicules axes may be related to the propagation of magnetohydrodynamic waves along them. These waves may become unstable and the instability can be of the Kelvin-Helmholtz type. We use the dispersion relation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Ajabshirizadeh , H. Ebadi , R. E. Vekalati , K. Molaverdikhani

We investigate the convective stability of a thin, infinite fluid layer with a rectangular cross-section, subject to imposed heat fluxes at the top and bottom and fixed temperature along the vertical sides. The instability threshold depends…

We consider a differentially rotating flow of an incompressible electrically conducting and viscous fluid subject to an external axial magnetic field and to an azimuthal magnetic field that is allowed to be generated by a combination of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-01 Rong Zou , Joris Labarbe , Yasuhide Fukumoto , Oleg N. Kirillov

The role of convection in the gas-dust accretion disk around a young star is studied. The evolution of a Keplerian disk is modeled using the Pringle equation, which describes the time variations of the surface density under the action of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov , L. A. Maksimova , E. I. Vorobyov

The short time evolution of three dimensional small perturbations is studied. Exhibiting spectral asymptotic stability, thin discs are nonetheless shown to host intensive hydrodynamical activity in the shape of non modal growth of initial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Yu. M. Shtemler , M. Mond , G. Rudiger , O. Regev , O. M. Umurhan

Deviations from axial symmetry are necessary to maintain self-sustained MRI-turbulence. We define the parameters region where nonaxisymmetric MRI is excited and study dependence of the unstable modes structure and growth rates on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 L. L. Kitchatinov , G. Ruediger

The stability of a rotating fluid disk to the formation of spiral arms is studied in the tightwinding approximation in the linear regime. The dispersion relation for spirals that was derived by Bertin et al. is shown to contain a new,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. E. Montenegro , C. Yuan , B. G. Elmegreen

The dynamics of a viscous accretion disc subject to a slowly varying warp of large amplitude is considered. Attention is restricted to discs in which self-gravitation is negligible, and to the generic case in which the resonant wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. I. Ogilvie

Origin of turbulence in cold accretion disks, particularly in 3D, which is expected to be hydrodynamic but not magnetohydrodynamic, is a big puzzle. While the flow must exhibit some turbulence in support of the transfer of mass inward and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

A first-order correction in the $\alpha$-viscosity parameter of Shakura and Sunyaev has been introduced in the standard inviscid and thin accretion disc. A linearised time-dependent perturbative study of the stationary solutions of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee , Arnab K. Ray

Turbulent viscosity in cold accretion disks is likely to be hydrodynamic in origin. We investigate the growth of hydrodynamic perturbations in a small region of a disk, which we model as a linear shear flow with Coriolis force, between two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Niayesh Afshordi , Ramesh Narayan

In the standard thin disc formalism the dimensionless $\alpha$ parameter is usually assumed to be constant. However, there are good theoretical reasons for believing, as well as evidence from simulations, that $\alpha$ is dependent on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-08 William J. Potter , Steven A. Balbus

The origin of hydrodynamic turbulence, and in particular of an anomalously enhanced angular momentum transport, in accretion disks is still an unsolved problem. This is especially important for cold disk systems which are practically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The theory of waves and instabilities in a differentially rotating disc containing a poloidal magnetic field is developed within the framework of ideal magnetohydrodynamics. A continuous spectrum, for which the eigenfunctions are localized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. I. Ogilvie

This paper discusses new perspectives and approaches to the problem of disk dynamics where, in this study, we focus on the effects of viscous instabilities influenced by boundary effects. The Boussinesq approximation of the viscous large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. M. Umurhan , G. Shaviv

The arising of turbulence in gas-dynamic (non-magnetic) accretion disks is a major issue of modern astrophysics. Such accretion disks should be stable against the turbulence generation, in contradiction to observations. Searching for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 E. P. Kurbatov , D. V. Bisikalo , P. V. Kaygorodov

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at developing and interpreting simulations of protoplanets interacting with turbulent accretion discs. Here we study the disc models prior to the introduction of a protoplanet.We study models in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John C. B. Papaloizou , Richard P. Nelson

Axisymmetric accretion disks in vicinity of a central compact body are studied. In the case of non-viscous disk it is proven that all solutions for the midplane circular velocity are unstable. Hence, the pure hydrodynamic turbulence in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-30 V. S. Borisov

The origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in rotating shear flow is a long standing puzzle. Resolving it is especially important in astrophysics when the flow angular momentum profile is Keplerian which forms an accretion disk having negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Kanak Saha