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We perform a linear stability analysis of magnetized rotating cylindrical jet flows in the approximation of zero thermal pressure. We focus our analysis on the effect of rotation on the current driven mode and on the unstable modes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 G. Bodo , G. Mamatsashvili , P. Rossi , A. Mignone

We consider the magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a hydrodynamically stable Taylor-Couette flow with a helical external magnetic field in the inductionless approximation defined by a zero magnetic Prandtl number ($\Pm=0)$. This leads…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Priede , I. Grants , G. Gerbeth

We solve appropriate drift-diffusion and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations to demonstrate that unpolarized current flow from a non-magnet into a ferromagnet can produce a precession-type instability of the magnetization. The fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. D. Stiles , Jiang Xiao , A. Zangwill

Thermal convection in an electrically conducting fluid (for example, a liquid metal) in the presence of a static magnetic field is considered in this chapter. The focus is on the extreme states of the flow, in which both buoyancy and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-14 Oleg Zikanov , Yaroslav Listratov , Xuan Zhang , Valentin Sviridov

We investigate why the non-slip boundary condition for the velocity, imposed in the direction of impressed magnetic fields, can contribute to the magnetic inhibition effect based on the nonhomogeneous magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (abbr. NMRT)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

The current-driven, kink-type Tayler instability (TI) is a key ingredient of the Tayler-Spruit dynamo model for the generation of stellar magnetic fields, but is also discussed as a mechanism that might hamper the up-scaling of liquid metal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-24 F. Stefani , V. Galindo , A. Giesecke , N. Weber , T. Weier

We report experimental observation of an instability in a Couette-Taylor flow of a polymer fluid in a thin gap between two coaxially rotating cylinders in a regime where their angular velocity decreases with the radius while the specific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-16 Stanislav Boldyrev , Don Huynh , Vladimir Pariev

In the paper we comment on (R\"udiger & Shalybkov, Phys. Rev. E. 69, 016303 (2004) (RS)), the instability of the Taylor--Couette flow interacting with a homogeneous background field subject to Hall effect is studied. We correct a falsely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Rheinhardt , U. Geppert

The Tayler instability (TI) of toroidal magnetic fields is a candidate mechanism for driving turbulence, angular momentum (AM) transport, and dynamo action in stellar radiative zones. Recently \cite{Skoutnev_2024} revisited the linear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Valentin A. Skoutnev , Andrei M. Beloborodov

The work extends the linear fields' solution of compressible nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics~(MHD) to the case where the magnetic field depends on superlinear powers of position vector, usually but not always, expressed in Cartesian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Wayne Arter

Presented here is a novel formulation of the mean-field dynamo as a modulational instability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. This formulation, termed mean-field wave kinetics (MFWK), is based on the Weyl symbol calculus and allows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 S. Jin , I. Y. Dodin

We present a set of three-dimensional, global, general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations of thin, radiation-pressure-dominated accretion disks surrounding a non-rotating, stellar-mass black hole. The simulations are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Bhupendra Mishra , P. Chris Fragile , Jessica Anderson , Aidan Blankenship , Hui Li , Krzysztof Nalewajko

Magnetic fields of planets, stars and galaxies are generated by self-excitation in moving electrically conducting fluids. Once produced, magnetic fields can play an active role in cosmic structure formation by destabilizing rotational flows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 F. Stefani , M. Gellert , Ch. Kasprzyk , A. Paredes , G. Ruediger , M. Seilmayer

The Rayleigh--Taylor instability of two immiscible fluids in the limit of small Atwood numbers is studied by means of a phase-field description. In this method the sharp fluid interface is replaced by a thin, yet finite, transition layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio Celani , Andrea Mazzino , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Lara Vozella

Linear stability of solid body rotating flows with axisymmetric density variations is addressed analytically. Considering inviscid disturbances, a non trivial dispersion relation is obtained and it is shown that the instability is of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-24 C. Jacques , B. Di Pierro , F. Alizard , M. Buffat , A. Cadiou , L. Le Penven

We present a new scenario for magnetic field amplification where an electrically conducting fluid is confined in a differentially rotating, spherical shell with thin aspect-ratio. When the angular momentum sufficiently decreases outwards,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-14 Florence Marcotte , Christophe Gissinger

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

Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities can be responsible for the formation of structures with various scales in astrophysical jets. We consider the stability properties of jets containing both the azimuthal and axial field of subthermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

We study the stability of a non-rotating single-component jet using two-dimensional special relativistic hydrodynamic simulations. By assuming translational invariance along the jet axis, we exclude the destabilization effect by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Jin Matsumoto , Youhei Masada

We have performed systemmatic local linear stability analysis on a radially stratified infinite self-gravitating cylinder of rotating plasma under the influence of magnetic field. In order to render the system analytically tractable, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Shubhadeep Sadhukhan , Surajit Mondal , Sagar Chakraborty