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We numerically calculate the growth and saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability caused by the deceleration of relativistic outflows with Lorentz factor {\Gamma} = 10, 30, and 100. The instability generates turbulence whose scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul C. Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen

The identification of stream in the straight pipe as a flexible rod has allowed to present the criterion expression for determination of transition of the laminar flow regime to the turbulent as a loss of stability of the rectilinear static…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Arsenjev , I. B. Lozovitski , Y. P. Sirik

The present paper describes a combined experimental and high performance computing study of new specific behaviors of the Strato-Rotational Instability (SRI). The confrontation of low frequency Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) experimental…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-24 G. Meletti , S. Abide , S. Viazzo , A. Krebs , U. Harlander

In this paper we prove the asymptotic stability of the Kolmogorov flow on a non-square torus for perturbations $\omega_0$ satisfying $\|\omega_0\|_{H^3}\ll\nu^{1/3}$, where $0<\nu\ll1$ is the viscosity. Kolmogorov flows are important…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Qi Chen , Hao Jia , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang

The dynamics and stability of a fluid-filled hollow cylindrical shell rolling on an inclined plane are analyzed. We study the motion in two dimensions by analyzing the interaction between the fluid and the cylindrical shell. An analytical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-02 Rohit B. Supekar , Mahesh V. Panchagnula

In a previous paper, we have reported numerical simulations of the MHD flow driven by a travelling magnetic field (TMF) in an annular channel, at low Reynolds number. It was shown that the stalling of such induction pump is strongly related…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-23 Paola Rodriguez Imazio , Christophe Gissinger

The Landau-Lifshitz fluctuating hydrodynamics is used to study the statistical properties of the linearized Kolmogorov flow. The relative simplicity of this flow allows a detailed analysis of the fluctuation spectrum from near equilibrium…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Bena , M. Malek Mansour , F. Baras

The linear stability of electrically driven flow of liquid metal in circular channel in the presence of vertical magnetic field is studied. It is shown that the instability threshold of such flow is determined by magnetorotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-20 I. V. Khalzov , A. I. Smolyakov , V. I. Ilgisonis

We develop a novel multiscale model of interface motion for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) for two-dimensional, inviscid, compressible flows with vorticity, which yields a fast-running…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Raag Ramani , Steve Shkoller

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

The effect of uniform magnetic field applied along a fixed horizontal direction in Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in low-Prandtl-number fluids has been studied using a low dimensional model. The model shows the onset of convection (primary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-02-13 Pinaki Pal , Krishna Kumar

The instability of pipe flow has been a subject of extensive research, yet a significant gap remains between experimental observations and theoretical predictions. This study revisits the classical problem of kinetic energy instability of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-30 Chiara Giraudo , Ingeborg G. Gjerde , Miroslav Kuchta , L. Ridgway Scott

We describe an instability of viscoelastic Couette-Taylor flow that is directly analogous to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics, with polymer molecules playing the role of magnetic field lines. By…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Gordon I. Ogilvie , Adrian T. Potter

We consider the dynamics of a vertically stratified, horizontally-forced Kolmogorov flow. Motivated by astrophysical systems where the Prandtl number is often asymptotically small, our focus is the little-studied limit of high Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-27 L. Cope , P. Garaud , C. P. Caulfield

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 Rayleigh-Taylor instability is a key process in many fields of Physics ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. It is usually analyzed deriving the linearized fluid equations, but the physics behind the instability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A Bret

New condition Re>Re_th_min=124 of linear (exponential) instability of the Hagen-Poisseuille (HP) with respect to extremely small by magnitude axially-symmetric disturbances of the tangential component of the velocity field is obtained. For…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-22 S. G. Chefranov , A. G. Chefranov

We investigate oscillatory instability and routes to chaos in Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of electrically conducting fluids in presence of external horizontal magnetic field. Three dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-20 Yada Nandukumar , Pinaki Pal

We perform a three-dimensional, short-wavelength stability analysis on the numerically simulated two-dimensional flow past a circular cylinder for Reynolds numbers in the range $50\le Re\le300$; here, $Re = U_{\infty}D/\nu$ with $U_\infty$,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-07 Yogesh Jethani , Kamal Kumar , A. Sameen , Manikandan Mathur

We consider a differentially rotating flow of an incompressible electrically conducting and viscous fluid subject to an external axial magnetic field and to an azimuthal magnetic field that is allowed to be generated by a combination of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-01 Rong Zou , Joris Labarbe , Yasuhide Fukumoto , Oleg N. Kirillov