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In rotating 3He superfluids the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability of the AB interface has been found to follow the theoretical model above 0.4 Tc. A deviation from this dependence has been assumed possible at the lowest temperatures. Our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-15 V. B. Eltsov , J. J. Hosio , M. Krusius

Context: Magnetic null points are associated with high-energy coronal phenomena such as solar flares and are often sites of reconnection and particle acceleration. Dynamic twisting of a magnetic null point can generate a Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 James Quinn , David MacTaggart , Radostin Simitev

We investigate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability occuring at the interface of a shear flow configuration in 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The linear growth and the subsequent non-linear saturation of the instability are studied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Keppens , G. Toth , R. H. J. Westermann , J. P. Goedbloed

We present a study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a weakly ionised, multifluid MHD plasma with parameters matching those of a typical molecular cloud. The instability is capable of transforming well-ordered flows into disordered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. C. Jones , T. P. Downes

We study the conditions under which high mode magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating on a rotating jet emerging from the filament eruption on 2013 April 10--11 can became unstable against the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability (KHI). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Ivan Zhelyazkov , Ramesh Chandra

We use data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to study the most likely formation of a forced reconnection region and associated plasma blobs, triggered by jet-like structures in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Sudheer K. Mishra , A. K. Srivastava , S. P. Rajaguru , P. Jelínek

MHD jet equilibria that depend on source properties are obtained using a simplified model for stationary, axisymmetric and rotating magnetized outflows. The present rotation laws are more complex than previously considered and include a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thibaut Lery , Adam Frank

The Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) and tearing instabilities are likely to be important for the process of fast magnetic reconnection that is believed to explain the observed explosive energy release in solar flares. Theoretical studies of the…

We investigate conditions under which kink magnetohydrodynamic waves propagating along photospheric uniformly twisted flux tubes with axial mass flows become unstable as a consequence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. We employed the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili

We have investigated magnetic field generation in velocity shears via the kinetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (kKHI) using a relativistic plasma jet core and stationary plasma sheath. Our three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-08 K. -I. Nishikawa , P. E. Hardee , I. Dutan , J. Niemiec , M. Medvedev , Y. Mizuno , A. Meli , H. Sol , B. Zhang , M. Pohl , D. H. Hartmann

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities are common in astrophysical systems, ranging from jet black holes up to protoplanetary accretion disk. An astrophysical object with strong characteristics of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is Caraguejo…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-19 P. Freitas-Lemes , I. Rodrigues , M. Faúndez-Abans

The recent development of tomographic analysis of radio data shows the presence of sheaths around several extragalactic jets. We have studied the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of such stratified jets, describing them as inner relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hanasz , H. Sol

We perform a linear analysis of the stability of a magnetized relativistic non-rotating cylindrical flow in the aproximation of zero thermal pressure, considering only the m = 1 mode. We find that there are two modes of instability:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Bodo , G. Mamatsashvili , P. Rossi , A. Mignone

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability occurs in multiple heliospheric (solar-wind stream interfaces, planetary magnetospheres, cometary tails, heliopause flanks) and interstellar (protoplanetary disks, relativistic jets, neutron star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Shishir Biswas , Masaru Nakanotani , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Vladimir Florinski , Merav Opher

Over the last few years it became clear that turbulent magnetic reconnection and magnetized turbulence are inseparable. It was not only shown that reconnection is responsible for violating the frozen-in condition in turbulence, but also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves , Alex Lazarian , Ethan T. Vishniac

It is known that hydrodynamic triangular jets are unstable to antisymmetric kink perturbations. The inclusion of magnetic field may lead to the stabilisation of the jets. Jets and complex magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 T. V. Zaqarashvili , S. Lomineishvili , P. Leitner , A. Hanslmeier , P. Gömöry , M. Roth

One of the key open questions in the study of relativistic jets is their interaction with the environment. Here, we study the initial evolution of both electron-proton and electron-positron relativistic jets, focusing on their lateral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-28 K. I Nishikawa , J. T. Frederiksen , A. Nordlund , Y. Mizuno , P. E. Hardee , J. Niemiec , J. L. Gomez , A. Pe'er , I. Dutan , A. Meli , H. Sol , M. Pohl , D. H. Hartman

We used our newly developed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code to perform 2.5D simulations of a fast-mode MHD wave interacting with coronal holes (CH) of varying Alfv\'en speed which result from assuming different CH densities. We find that…

Transverse oscillations of coronal loops are often observed and have been theoretically interpreted as kink magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes. Numerical simulations by Terradas et al. (2008, ApJ 687, L115) suggest that shear flows generated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. Soler , J. Terradas , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester , M. Goossens

We have investigated generation of magnetic fields associated with velocity shear between an unmagnetized relativistic jet and an unmagnetized sheath plasma. We have examined the strong magnetic fields generated by kinetic shear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-10 K. -I. Nishikawa , P. Hardee , B. Zhang , I. Dutan , M. Medvedev , E. J. Choi , K. W. Min , J. Niemiec , Y. Mizuno , A. Nordlund , J. T. Frederiksen , H. Sol , M. Pohl , D. H. Hartmann