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The emergence of turbulence in shear flows is a well-investigated field. Yet, one of major issues is the apparent contradiction between linear stability analysis quoting a flow to be stable and results from experiments and simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-28 Tanayveer Singh Bhatia , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We show, by means of a perturbative weakly nonlinear analysis, that the axisymmetric magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in a magnetic Taylor-Couette (mTC) flow in a thin-gap gives rise, for very small magnetic Prandtl numbers (P_m), to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Regev

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna are unique probes of the nature of supermassive compact objects. We compute the gravitational-wave signal emitted by a stellar-mass compact object in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Elisa Maggio , Maarten van de Meent , Paolo Pani

We present two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of the fully kinetic collisionless magnetorotational instability (MRI) in weakly magnetized (high $\beta$) pair plasma. The central result of this numerical analysis is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Giannandrea Inchingolo , Thomas Grismayer , Nuno F. Loureiro , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is widely believed to play a central role in generating large-scale, poloidal magnetic fields during binary neutron star mergers. However, the few simulations that begin with a weak seed magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 T. Celora , C. Palenzuela , D. Viganò , R. Aguilera-Miret

Orbital resonances in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) have been proven to be a key feature for accurate gravitational-wave template modeling. Decades of research have led to schemes that can not only model the adiabatic inspiral of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Edoardo Levati , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Kyriakos Destounis , Paolo Pani

I decompose the unstable growing modes of stellar disks to their Fourier components and present the physical mechanism of instabilities in the context of resonances. When the equilibrium distribution function is a non-uniform function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mir Abbas Jalali

We investigate the significance of large scale azimuthal, magnetic and velocity modes for the MRI turbulence in accretion disks. We perform 3D global ideal MHD simulations of global stratified proto-planetary disk models. Our domains span…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Flock , N. Dzyurkevich , H. Klahr , N. Turner , Th. Henning

As was demonstrated in earlier studies, turbulence can result in a negative contribution to the effective mean magnetic pressure, which, in turn, can cause a large-scale instability. In this study, hydromagnetic mean-field modelling is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-21 K. Kemel , A. Brandenburg , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

We use local numerical simulations to investigate the strength and nature of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the outer regions of protoplanetary disks, where ambipolar diffusion is the dominant non-ideal MHD effect. The simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jacob B. Simon , Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone , Philip J. Armitage , Kris Beckwith

Electron-scale Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (ESKHI) are found in several astrophysical scenarios. Naturally ESKHI is subject to a background magnetic field, but an analytical dispersion relation and an accurate growth rate of ESKHI under…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Yao Guo , Dong Wu , Jie Zhang

We show by means of a perturbative weakly nonlinear analysis that the axisymmetric magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a viscous, resistive, incompressible rotating shear flow in a thin channel gives rise to a real Ginzburg-Landau…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. M. Umurhan , K. Menou , O. Regev

Magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a convectively-stable layer around the neutrinosphere is simulated by a three-dimensional model of supernova core. To resolve MRI-unstable modes, a thin layer approximation considering only the radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Youhei Masada , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) triggers turbulence and enables outward transport of angular momentum in hydrodynamically stable accretion discs. By using the WKB approximation and methods of singular function theory, we resolve two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is believed to be responsible for most of the angular momentum transport in accretion discs. However, molecular dissipation processes may drastically change the efficiency of MRI turbulence in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Geoffroy Lesur , Pierre-Yves Longaretti

We investigated the impacts of magnetorotational instability (MRI) on the dynamics of weakly magnetized, rapidly rotating core-collapse by conducting high resolution MHD simulations in axisymmetry with simplified neutrino transfer. We found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada

Helical and azimuthal magnetorotational instabilities operate in rotating magnetized flows with relatively steep negative or extremely steep positive shear. The corresponding lower and upper Liu limits of the shear, which determine the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 G. Mamatsashvili , F. Stefani

We consider the linear axisymmetric stability of a differentially rotating collisionless plasma in the presence of a weak magnetic field; we restrict our analysis to wavelengths much larger than the proton Larmor radius. This is the kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eliot Quataert , William Dorland , Greg Hammett

We analyze the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) effects on gravitational collapse and its influence on the instability critical scale. In particular, we study an axisymmetric nonstratified differentially rotating cloud, embedded in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Giovanni Montani , Giovanni Palermo , Nakia Carlevaro

We discuss three modes of oscillation of accretion disks around rotating magnetized neutron stars which may explain the separations of the kilo-Hertz quasi periodic oscillations (QPO) seen in low mass X-ray binaries. The existence of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-24 R. V. E. Lovelace , L. Turner , M. M. Romanova