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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

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) may dominate outward transport of angular momentum in accretion disks, allowing material to fall onto the central object. Previous work has established that the MRI can drive a mean-field dynamo,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jeffrey S. Oishi , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We study how the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks is affected by the electric discharge caused by the electric field in the resistive MHD. We have performed three-dimensional shearing box simulations with various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Takayuki Muranushi , Satoshi Okuzumi , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

The saturation level of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is investigated using three-dimensional MHD simulations. The shearing box approximation is adopted and the vertical component of gravity is ignored, so that the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takayoshi Sano , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Neal J. Turner , James M. Stone

This study is devoted to the experimental analysis of the Strato-rotational Instability (SRI). This instability affects the classical cylindrical Couette flow when the fluid is stably stratified in the axial direction. In agreement with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Le Bars , P. Le Gal

We investigate parametric decay instability (PDI) of circularly polarized Alfv\'en wave into daughter acoustic wave and backward Alfv\'en wave in magnetically-dominated plasma, in which the magnetization parameter $\sigma$ (energy density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-19 Wataru Ishizaki , Kunihito Ioka

Turbulence and dynamo induced by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) are analyzed using quasi-linear statistical simulation methods. It is found that homogenous turbulence is unstable to a large scale dynamo instability, which saturates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-01 Jonathan Squire , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Shear flow instabilities can profoundly affect the diffusion of momentum in jets, stars, and disks. The Richardson criterion gives a sufficient condition for instability of a shear flow in a stratified medium. The velocity gradient $V'$ can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel Lecoanet , Ellen G. Zweibel , Richard H. D. Townsend , Yi-Min Huang

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) occurs when a weak magnetic field destabilises a rotating, electrically conducting fluid with inwardly increasing angular velocity. The MRI is essential to astrophysical disk theory where the shear is…

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) plays a key role for cosmic structure formation by triggering turbulence in the rotating flows of accretion disks that would be otherwise hydrodynamically stable. In the limit of small magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-21 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani , Yasuhide Fukumoto

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is one of the most important processes in sufficiently ionized astrophysical disks. Grid-based simulations, especially those using the local shearing box approximation, provide a powerful tool to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Hongping Deng , Lucio Mayer , Henrik Latter , Philip F. Hopkins , Xue-Ning Bai

This review summarizes recent advances in the theoretical analysis of the stability of magnetized flows in a non-uniformly rotating layer of electrically conductive nanofluid, incorporating the effects of Brownian diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 M. I. Kopp , V. V. Yanovsky

In preparation for an experimental study of magnetorotational instability (MRI) in liquid metal, we present non-ideal two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the nonlinear evolution of MRI in the experimental geometry. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wei Liu , Jeremy Goodman , Hantao Ji

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

Accretion disks are highly unstable to magnetic instabilities driven by shear flow, where classically, the axisymmetric, weak-field Magneto-Rotational Instability (MRI) has received much attention through local WKB approximations. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-21 Nicolas Brughmans , Rony Keppens , Hans Goedbloed

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

Stably stratified layers are present in stellar interiors (radiative zones) as well as planetary interiors - recent observations and theoretical studies of the Earth's magnetic field seem to indicate the presence of a thin, stably…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 J. Philidet , C. Gissinger , F. Lignières , L. Petitdemange

We demonstrate that a background rotation significantly catalyzes the chiral magnetovortical instability in chiral magnetohydrodynamics. The rotation splits the linearly polarized Alfven wave into two circularly polarized magneto-Coriolis…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Shuai Wang , Xu-Guang Huang

During the last decade it has become evident that the magnetorotational instability is at the heart of the enhanced angular momentum transport in weakly magnetized accretion disks around neutron stars and black holes. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin E. Pessah , Dimitrios Psaltis

The solar atmosphere is a dynamic environment, constantly evolving to form a wide range of magnetically dominated structures (coronal loops, spicules, prominences, etc.) which cover a significant percentage of the surface at any one time.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 R. Erdélyi , A. Hague , C. J. Nelson