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Irrotational and monochromatic surface gravity waves possess a mean Lagrangian drift which transports mass and enhances mixing in the upper ocean. In the ocean, where many surface waves are present, it is commonly assumed that the mean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-20 Aidan Blaser , Luc Lenain , Nick Pizzo

Energetic-particle-driven modes in magnetically confined fusion plasmas often exhibit nonlinear frequency sweeping, reflecting complex wave-particle interactions near marginal stability. While the bump-on-tail (BOT) instability within the…

We analyze the linear stability of monoclinal traveling waves on a constant incline, which connect uniform flowing regions of differing depths. The classical shallow-water equations are employed, subject to a general resistive drag term.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jake Langham , Andrew J. Hogg

A linearly unstable, sinusoidal $E \times B$ shear flow is examined in the gyrokinetic framework in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. In the linear regime, it is shown that the eigenmode spectrum is nearly identical to hydrodynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 A. E. Fraser , M. J. Pueschel , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel

We report the experimental observation of highly nonlinear coherent structures in a linear magnettized plasma characterized by a strong background density gradient and significant ExB velocity shear under high ion-neutral collisionality.…

We consider turbulence driven by a large-scale horizontal shear in Kolmogorov flow (i.e. with sinusoidal body forcing) and a background linear stable stratification with buoyancy frequency $N_B^2$ imposed in the third, vertical direction in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Dan Lucas , C. P. Caulfield

We investigate the long-time properties of the two-dimensional inviscid Boussinesq equations near a stably stratified Couette flow, for an initial Gevrey perturbation of size $\varepsilon$. Under the classical Miles-Howard stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Jacob Bedrossian , Roberta Bianchini , Michele Coti Zelati , Michele Dolce

Unstable electrostatic resistive modes, driven by density gradients, are identified in a bounded sheared slab. The boundary conditions play a crucial role and are shown to change the nature of the problem, which is related to so called…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 F. Militello , M. Ottaviani , A. Wynn

I theoretically found eigenmodes and growth rates of relativistic current filamentation instability in collisional regimes, deriving a generalized dispersion relation from self-consistent beam-Maxwell equations. For symmetrically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mitsuru Honda

The gravito-inertial waves propagating over a shellular baroclinic flow inside a rotating spherical shell are analysed using the Boussinesq approximation. The wave properties are examined by computing paths of characteristics in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Giovanni M. Mirouh , Clément Baruteau , Michel Rieutord , Jérôme Ballot

Highly stratified shear layers are rendered unstable even at high stratifications by Holmboe instabilities when the density stratification is concentrated in a small region of the shear layer. These instabilities may cause mixing in highly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-29 Navid C. Constantinou , Petros J. Ioannou

Drift ordered fluid models are widely applied in studies of low-frequency turbulence in the edge and scrape-off layer regions of magnetically confined plasmas. Here, we show how collisional transport across the magnetic field is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Jens Madsen , Volker Naulin , Anders Henry Nielsen , Jens Juul Rasmussen

We explore the near-resonant interaction of inertial waves with geostrophic modes in rotating fluids via numerical and theoretical analysis. When a single inertial wave is imposed, we find that some geostrophic modes are unstable above a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Thomas Le Reun , Basile Gallet , Benjamin Favier , Michael Le Bars

Visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, driven by a two-dimensional unstable shear layer that is maintained by an imposed body force, is examined by decomposing it into dissipationless linear eigenmodes of the initial profiles. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-14 B. Tripathi , A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel

In this paper, we show that astrophysical accretion disks are dynamically unstable to non-axisymmetric disturbances. This instability is present in any stably stratified anticyclonically sheared flow as soon as the angular velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Richard , F. Hersant , O. Dauchot , F. Daviaud , B. Dubrulle , J-P. Zahn

It is increasingly common for models of shallow-layer overland flows to include equations for the evolution of the underlying bed (morphodynamics) and the motion of an associated sedimentary phase. We investigate the linear stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Jake Langham , Mark J. Woodhouse , Andrew J. Hogg , Jeremy C. Phillips

By employing a local two-fluid theory, we investigate an obliquely propagating electromagnetic instability in the lower hybrid frequency range driven by cross-field current or relative drifts between electrons and ions. The theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hantao Ji , Russell Kulsrud , William Fox , Masaaki Yamada

The linear and renormalized nonlinear kinetic theory of drift instability of plasma shear flow across the magnetic field, which has the Kelvin's method of shearing modes or so-called non-modal approach as its foundation, is developed. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. S. Mikhailenko , V. V. Mikhailenko , K. N. Stepanov

Magnetic nozzles are a key component of electrodeless plasma thrusters, acting as their main acceleration stage. Non-stationary phenomena common to the entire range of $E \times B$ devices, such as oscillations and instabilities, are likely…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Matteo Ripoli , Eduardo Ahedo , Mario Merino

We study a non-reciprocal version of Model B, as the continuum theory for non-reciprocal particle mixtures. In contrast to non-reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard models, it is important in this context to consider the dependence of mobility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-06 Bibhut Sahoo , Rituparno Mandal , Peter Sollich