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The linear and non-linear dynamics of centrifugal instability in Taylor-Couette flow are investigated when fluids are stably stratified and highly diffusive. One-dimensional local linear stability analysis (LSA) on cylindrical Couette flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-10 Junho Park

We present a global-in-radius linear analysis of the axisymmetric magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a collisional magnetized plasma with Braginskii viscosity. For a galactic angular velocity profile $\Omega$ we obtain analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 M. S. Rosin , A. J. Mestel

Non-axisymmetric, flow-driven instabilities in the incompressible Hall-MHD model are studied in a differentially rotating cylindrical plasma. It is found that in the Hall-MHD regime, both whistler waves and ion-cyclotron waves can extract…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Alexandre Sainterme , Fatima Ebrahimi

Quasi-Keplerian flow, a special regime of Taylor-Couette co-rotating flow, is of great astrophysical interest for studying angular momentum transport in accretion disks. The well-known magnetorotational instability (MRI) successfully…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-08 Dongdong Wan , Rikhi Bose , Mengqi Zhang , Xiaojue Zhu

We investigate the evolution of hydromagnetic perturbations in a small section of accretion disks. It is known that molecular viscosity is negligible in accretion disks. Hence, it has been argued that Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 Sujit K. Nath , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We investigate magnetic Taylor--Couette flow in the presence of an imposed axial magnetic field. First we calculate nonlinear steady axisymmetric solutions and determine how their strength depends on the applied magnetic field. Then we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ashley P. Willis , Carlo F. Barenghi

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a magnetic fluid superimposed on a non-magnetic liquid of lower density may be suppressed with the help of a spatially homogeneous magnetic field rotating in the plane of the undisturbed interface.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Rannacher , A. Engel

Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities are investigated in a computationally tractable two-dimensional model of the solar tachocline. The model's differential rotation yields stability in the absence of a magnetic field, but if a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Abigail Plummer , J. B. Marston , S. M. Tobias

Fluid instabilities like Rayleigh-Taylor,Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability can occur in a wide range of physical phenomenon from astrophysical context to Inertial Confinement Fusion(ICF).Using Layzer's potential flow model,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Manoranjan Khan , Labakanta Mandal , Rahul Banerjee , Sourav Roy , M. R. Gupta

We study a new type of magnetoconvection in a nonuniform rotating plasma layer under a constant vertical magnetic field. To describe the weakly nonlinear stage of convection we apply Galerkin-truncated approximation and we obtain the system…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

We present a linear analysis of the radiative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in the presence of magnetic field for both optically thin and thick regimes. When the flow is optically thin, magnetic field not only stabilizes perturbations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Mohsen Shadmehri

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

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

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) (Balbus and Hawley 1991, Hawley and Balbus 1991) transports angular momentum radially outwards in accretion discs through the distortion of the magnetic field lines that connect fluid elements. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

This article deals with the Hadamard instability of the so-called $\mu(I)$ model of dense rapidly-sheared granular flow, as reported recently by Barker et al. (2015,this journal, ${\bf 779}$, 794-818). The present paper presents a more…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-22 Joe Goddard , Jaesung Lee

We study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) of electrostatic plane wave perturbations in compressible relativistic magnetoplasma fluids with thermal ions under gravity in three different cases of when (i) electrons are in isothermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 R. Dey , A. P. Misra

The magnetorotational instability (MRI), also known as the Balbus -- Hawley instability, is thought to have an important role on the initiation of turbulence and angular momentum transport in accretion discs. In this work, we investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Suzan Dogan

We consider the effect of toroidal magnetic fields on hydrodynamically stable Taylor-Couette differential rotation flows. For current-free magnetic fields a nonaxisymmetric m=1 magnetorotational instability arises when the magnetic Reynolds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Ruediger , R. Hollerbach , M. Schultz , D. Elstner

The excitation conditions of the magnetorotational instability are studied for axially unbounded Taylor-Couette flows of various gap widths between the cylinders. The cylinders are considered as made from both perfect-conducting or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-28 G. Rüdiger , M. Schultz

This work explains a scaling law of the first Landau coefficient of the derived Ginzburg-Landau equation (GLE) in the weakly nonlinear analysis of axisymmetric viscoelastic pipe flows in the large-Weissenberg-number ($Wi$) limit, recently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-13 Dongdong Wan , Ming Dong , Mengqi Zhang