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We consider barotropic instability of shear flows for incompressible fluids with Coriolis effects. For a class of shear flows, we develop a new method to find the sharp stability conditions. We study the flow with Sinus profile in details…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Zhiwu Lin , Jincheng Yang , Hao Zhu

The goal of this paper is to prove the existence and stability of shocks for viscous scalar conservation laws with space periodic flux, in the multi-dimensional case. Such a result had been proved by the first author in one space dimension,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Moon-Jin Kang

We complete previous investigations on the thermodynamics of self-gravitating systems by studying the grand canonical, grand microcanonical and isobaric ensembles. We also discuss the stability of polytropic spheres in the light of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Chavanis

Our manuscript aims to analysis the viability and stability of anisotropic stellar objects in the modified symmetric teleparallel gravity. A particular model of this extended theory is considered to formulate explicit field equations which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-29 M. Zeeshan Gul , M. Sharif , Adeeba Arooj

Stochastic Structural Stability Theory (SSST) provides an autonomous, deterministic, nonlinear dynamical system for evolving the statistical mean state of a turbulent system. In this work SSST is applied to the problem of understanding the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-30 Brian F. Farrell , Petros J. Ioannou

To find out whether toroidal field can stably exist in galaxies the current-driven instability of toroidal magnetic fields is considered under the influence of an axial magnetic field component and under the influence of both rigid and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Ruediger , M. Schultz , D. Elstner

We study the linear stability of holographic homogeneous solids (HHS) at finite temperature and in presence of a background shear strain by means of a large scale quasi-normal mode analysis which extends beyond the hydrodynamic limit. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-22 Matteo Baggioli , Li Li , Wei-Jia Li , Hao-Tian Sun

As one of the cornerstones of fluid mechanics, stability analyses provide essential physical insights into the growth of perturbations and eventual transition to turbulence. However, classical \enquote{frozen-time} stability analyses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-15 Stefan S. Nixon , Philipp P. Vieweg

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous cooling state is carried out to identify the conditions for stability as functions of the wave vector, the dissipation, and the density. In contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vicente Garzo

This work establishes nonlinear orbital asymptotic stability of scalar radiative shock profiles, namely, traveling wave solutions to the simplified model system of radiating gas \cite{Hm}, consisting of a scalar conservation law coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Corrado Lattanzio , Corrado Mascia , Ramon Plaza , Toan Nguyen , Kevin Zumbrun

We study the spherically symmetric collapsing star in terms of dynamical instability. We take the framework of extended teleparallel gravity with non-diagonal tetrad, power-law form of model presenting torsion and matter distribution as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-16 Abdul Jawad , Shamaila Rani

In this article some of the hydrodynamical (HD) aspects of steady shocks as described by the steady-state shock model are reviewed and discussed. It is found that, at least in some of the contexts in which the steady-state model is used,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Preite Martinez

We analyze the stability of stationary solutions of a singular Vlasov type hydrodynamic equation (HE). This equation was derived (under suitable assumptions) as the hydrodynamical scaling limit of the Hamiltonian evolution of a system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Caglioti , N. Chernov , J. L. Lebowitz

In this paper, we consider capillary-gravity waves propagating on the interface separating two fluids of finite depth and constant density. The flow in each layer is assumed to be incompressible and of constant vorticity. We prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Daniel Sinambela

Randomly-assembled dynamical systems are theoretically predicted to be unstable upon crossing a critical threshold of complexity, as first shown by May. Yet, empirical complex systems exhibit remarkable stability, indicating the presence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Francesco Ferraro , Christian Grilletta , Amos Maritan , Samir Suweis , Sandro Azaele

Context. Regularly-spaced, star-forming regions along the spiral arms of nearby galaxies provide insight into the early stages and initial conditions of star formation. The regular separation of these star-forming regions suggests spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-24 Raghav Arora , Christoph Federrath , Robi Banerjee , Bastian Körtgen

Extending our previous work in the strictly parabolic case, we show that a linearly unstable Lax-type viscous shock solution of a general quasilinear hyperbolic--parabolic system of conservation laws possesses a translation-invariant center…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Kevin Zumbrun

In a shear flow particles migrate to their equilibrium positions in the microchannel. Here we demonstrate theoretically that if particles are inertial, this equilibrium can become unstable due to the Saffman lift force. We derive an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 Evgeny S. Asmolov , Tatiana V. Nizkaya , Jens Harting , Olga I. Vinogradova

The present contribution proves the asymptotic orbital stability of viscous regularizations of stable Riemann shocks of scalar balance laws, uniformly with respect to the viscosity/diffusion parameter $\epsilon$. The uniformity is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Paul Blochas , L. Miguel Rodrigues

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability is studied in a non-Newtonian dusty plasma with an experimentally verified model [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 98}, 145003 (2007)] of shear flow rate dependent viscosity. The shear flow profile used here is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Banerjee , S. Garai , M. S. Janaki , N. Chakrabarti