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We further develop the Tayler--Spruit dynamo theory, based on the most efficient instability for generating magnetic fields in radiative layers of differentially rotating stars. We avoid the simplifying assumptions that either the $\mu$--…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andre Maeder , Georges Meynet

We investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solution (including the case of heavier density with increasing height) to the three-dimensional incompressible nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Weiwei Wang

We use the geometric optics approximation to derive the stability criteria for the Rayleigh shearing instability and the magnetorotational instability. We examine the cases where each criterion is relevant by looking into the magnitude of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-08 Konstantinos Palapanidis , Despoina Pazouli

We investigate analytically the magnetic instability in a rotating and electrically conducting fluid induced by an imposed magnetic field with its associated electric current. The short-wavelength approximation is used in the linear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-22 Xing Wei

The study of the magnetic field in stellar radiation zones is an important topic in modern astrophysics because the magnetic field can play an important role in several transport phenomena such as mixing and angular momentum transport. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

In this paper I analyze the onset of Rayleigh-Taylor instability between two linear viscoelastic fluids assuming that the perturbations at the interface are small. In the first half, the paper analyzes a stratified viscoelastic fluid in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-06 Amey Joshi

It is still open whether the phenomenon of inhibition of Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability by a horizontal magnetic field can be mathematically verified for a non-resistive \emph{viscous} magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid in a two-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Youyi Zhao

The magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability (mRTI) is a key process in inertial confinement fusion and is thought to be widespread in the interstellar medium, where it can concentrate plasma into discrete structures. We present resistive MHD…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-25 Xin Bian , Riccardo Betti , Dongxiao Zhao , Hussein Aluie

This is our first study of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the inner edge of an astrophysical disk around a central back hole. We derive the equations governing small-amplitude oscillations in general relativistic ideal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Dimitrios Papadopoulos

Synchrotron emission from a supernova necessitates a magnetic field, but it is unknown how strong the relevant magnetic fields are, and what mechanism generates them. In this study, we perform high-resolution numerical gas dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 Paul Duffell , Daniel Kasen

The effect of magnetic field on the nonlinear growth rate of Rayleigh-Taylor instability induced two fluid interfacial structures has been investigated. The magnetic field is assumed to be parallel to the plane of the two fluid interface…

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

We investigate the development of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the inner edge of an astrophysical disk around a spinning central black hole. We solve the equations of general relativity that govern small amplitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Demetrios Papadopoulos , Ioannis Contopoulos

Several observations of astrophysical jets show evidence of a structure in the direction perpendicular to the jet axis, leading to the development of "spine & sheath" models of jets. Most studies focus on a two-component jet consisting of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-22 Dimitrios Millas , Rony Keppens , Zakaria Meliani

It is still an open problem whether the inhibition phenomenon of Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability by horizontal magnetic field can be mathematically proved in a non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Youyi Zhao

We study the effect of a magnetic field on the behaviour of a slender conducting elastic structure, motivated by stability problems of electrodynamic space tethers. Both statical (buckling) and dynamical (whirling) instability are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-10-22 J. Valverde , G. H. M. van der Heijden

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 Tayler instability is a kink-type, current driven instability that plays an important role in plasma physics but might also be relevant in liquid metal applications with high electrical currents. In the framework of the Tayler-Spruit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-24 Norbert Weber , Vladimir Galindo , Frank Stefani , Tom Weier

The Tayler instability (TI) is a non-axisymmetric linear instability of an axisymmetric toroidal magnetic field in magneto-hydrostatic equilibrium (MHSE). Spruit (1999, 2002) has proposed that in a differentially rotating radiative region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 J. Goldstein , R. H. D. Townsend , E. G. Zweibel

Turbulence in rotating Magneto-hydrodynamic systems is studied theoretically and numerically. In the linear limit, when the velocity and magnetic perturbations are small, the system supports two types of waves. When the rotation effects are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Nicholas Bell , Sergey Nazarenko

In this research, the height, curvature and velocity of the bubble tip in Rayleigh-Taylor instability at arbitrary Atwood number with horizontal magnetic field are investigated. To support the earlier simulation and experimental results,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Rahul Banerjee