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We adapt a modern scheme of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to our tree N-body/SPH galactic chemodynamics code GCD+. The applied scheme includes imple- mentations of the artificial viscosity switch and artificial thermal conductivity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daisuke Kawata , Takashi Okamoto , Brad K. Gibson , David J. Barnes , Renyue Cen

We investigate the nonlinear formation of plasmoids in 2D low-beta current sheets through the interplay between the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) and the lower-hybrid drift instability (LHDI). Using a hybrid kinetic-gyrokinetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 S. Thatikonda , F. N. De Oliveira-Lopes , A. Mustonen , K. Pommois , D. Told , F. Jenko

We investigate the conditions under which the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in a cylindrical magnetic flux tube moving along its axis become unstable against the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability. We \textbf{use} the dispersion relations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 I. Zhelyazkov , Z. Dimitrov

The main aim of this submission is to investigate the effects of some parameters like wave number, shear velocity, magnetic field and temperature for the growth rate of the magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) with incessant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Huseyin Cavus , G. A. Hoshoudy

The evolution of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) is widely used to assess the performance of numerical methods. We employ this instability to test both the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the meshless finite mass (MFM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Milena Valentini , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag

We study here the arising of Kelvin--Helmholtz Instability (KHI) in one fast jet of 2014 April 16 observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in different UV and EUV wavelengths. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 M. Bogdanova , I. Zhelyazkov , R. Joshi , R. Chandra

The isothermal spatio-temporal evolution of an interface between binary fluids, with temperature sensitive miscibility gap, subjected to shear flow is investigated using direct numerical simulations. The thermophysical properties and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Anubhav Dubey , Sakir Amiroudine

Boundary layers in space and astrophysical plasmas are the location of complex dynamics where different mechanisms coexist and compete eventually leading to plasma mixing. In this work, we present fully kinetic Particle-In-Cell simulations…

We present an open-source Python library for simulating two-dimensional incompressible Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in stratified shear flows. The solver employs a fractional-step projection method with spectral Poisson solution via Fast…

This paper investigates the hydrodynamic performances of an SPH code incorporating an artificial heat conductivity term in which the adopted signal velocity is applicable when gravity is present. In accordance with previous findings it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Valdarnini

We study the effects of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) on the cold streams that feed high-redshift galaxies through their hot haloes, generalizing our earlier analyses of a 2D slab to a 3D cylinder, but still limiting our analysis to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Nir Mandelker , Daisuke Nagai , Han Aung , Avishai Dekel , Dan Padnos , Yuval Birnboim

We investigate the effects of viscosity and heat conduction on the onset and growth of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) via an efficient discrete Boltzmann model. Technically, two effective approaches are presented to quantitatively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-02 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Chuandong Lin , Huilin Lai , Zhipeng Liu

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

In this paper, the coupled Rayleigh-Taylor-Kelvin-Helmholtz instability(RTI, KHI and RTKHI, respectively) system is investigated using a multiple-relaxation-time discrete Boltzmann model. Both the morphological boundary length and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-24 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Yudong Zhang , Qingkai Zeng

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a basic physical process in fluids and magnetized plasmas, with applications successfully modelling e.g. exponentially growing instabilities observed at magnetospheric and heliospheric boundaries, in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Xiaohong Li , Jun Zhang , Shuhong Yang , Yijun Hou , Robert Erdelyi

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is well-known in classical hydrodynamics, where it explains the sudden emergence of interfacial surface waves as a function of the velocity of flow parallel to the interface. It can be carried over to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-13 V. B. Eltsov , A. Gordeev , M. Krusius

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability occurring in a single shear flow configuration that is embedded in a uniform flow-aligned magnetic field, is revisited by means of high resolution two-dimensional (2D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Baty , R. Keppens , P. Comte

Non-thermal emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets extends up-to large scales in-spite of them being prone to a slew of magneto-hydrodynamic instabilities. The main focus of this study is to understand the impact of MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Nikhil Borse , Sriyasriti Acharya , Bhargav Vaidya , Dipanjan Mukherjee , Gianluigi Bodo , Paola Rossi , Andrea Mignone

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability has been proposed as a mechanism to extract energy from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in flux tubes, and to drive dissipation of this wave energy through turbulence. It is therefore a potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Andrew Hillier , Adrian Barker , Iñigo Arregui , Henrik Latter

Self-gravitating gaseous filaments exist on many astrophysical scales, from sub-pc filaments in the interstellar medium to Mpc scale streams feeding galaxies from the cosmic web. These filaments are often subject to Kelvin-Helmotz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-21 Han Aung , Nir Mandelker , Daisuke Nagai , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim