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The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a crucial role for cosmic structure formation by enabling turbulence in Keplerian disks which would be otherwise hydrodynamically stable. With particular focus on MRI experiments with liquid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a weakly ionized, differentially rotating, magnetized plasma disk is investigated in the multi-fluid framework. The disk is threaded by a uniform vertical magnetic field and charge is carried by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. P. Pandey , Mark Wardle

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered to be one of the most powerful sources of turbulence in hydrodynamically stable quasi-Keplerian flows, such as those governing accretion disk flows. Although the linear stability of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-21 A. Guseva , R. Hollerbach , A. P. Willis , M. Avila

We examine the nonlinear development of unstable magnetosonic waves driven by a background radiative flux -- the Radiation-Driven Magneto-Acoustic Instability (RMI, a.k.a. the "photon bubble" instability). The RMI may serve as a persistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rodrigo Fernández , Aristotle Socrates

(Abriged) The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to be an efficient way to transport angular momentum in accretion discs. It has also been suggested as a way to amplify magnetic fields in discs, the instability acting as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lesur , G. I. Ogilvie

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) is one of the fundamental processes in astrophysics, driving angular momentum transport and mass accretion in a wide variety of cosmic objects. Despite much theoretical/numerical and experimental efforts…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-28 G. Mamatsashvili , F. Stefani , A. Guseva , M. Avila

We examine global incompressible axisymmetric perturbations of a differentially rotating MHD plasma with radial density gradients. It is shown that the standard magnetorotational instability, (MRI) criterion drawn from the local dispersion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jesse Pino , S. M. Mahajan

The magnetorotational instability(MRI) in the Kerr spacetime is studied on a 3+1 viewpoint. The Maxwell's equations are expressed in a circularly orbiting observer's frame that co-rotates with matter in Keplerian orbits. There exist large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Yokosawa , T. Inui

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the nonlinear evolution of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) with a non-zero Ohmic resistivity. The properties of the saturated state depend on the initial magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Timothy P. Fleming , James M. Stone , John F. Hawley

Global three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of turbulent accretion disks are presented which start from fully equilibrium initial conditions in which the magnetic forces are accounted for and the induction equation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 E. R. Parkin , G. V. Bicknell

We studied dynamical balances in magnetorotational instability (MRI) turbulence with a net vertical field in the shearing box model of disks. Analyzing the turbulence dynamics in Fourier (${\bf k}$-)space, we identified three types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 D. Gogichaishvili , G. Mamatsashvili , W. Horton , G. Chagelishvili

We carried out 2D-axisymmetric MHD simulations of core-collapse supernovae for rapidly-rotating magnetized progenitors. By changing both the strength of the magnetic field and the spatial resolution, the evolution of the magnetorotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada

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 interaction of differential rotation and toroidal fields that are current-free in the gap between two corotating axially unbounded cylinders is considered. It is shown that nonaxisymmetric perturbations are unstable if the rotation rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Ruediger , M. Gellert , M. Schultz , R. Hollerbach , F. Stefani

The nonlinear evolution and the saturation mechanism of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) are investigated using three-dimensional resistive MHD simulations. A local shearing box is used for our numerical analysis and the simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Takayoshi Sano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Axisymmetric magnetorotational instability (MRI) in viscous accretion disks is investigated by linear analysis and two-dimensional nonlinear simulations. The linear growth of the viscous MRI is characterized by the Reynolds number defined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Youhei Masada , Takayoshi Sano

It has been recently suggested that the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is a limiting case of the magneto-elliptic instability (MEI). This limit is obtained for horizontal modes in the presence of rotation and an external vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Krzysztof A. Mizerski , Wladimir Lyra

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to be a powerful source of turbulence in Keplerian accretion disks. Motivated by recent laboratory experiments, we study the MRI driven by an azimuthal magnetic field in an electrically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-21 Anna Guseva , Ashley P. Willis , Rainer Hollerbach , Marc Avila

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

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