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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

In this paper we discuss the treatment of discontinuities in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. In particular we discuss the difference between integral and differential representations of the fluid equations in an SPH…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Price

We study the effects of Kelvin Helmholtz Instability (KHI) on the cold streams that feed massive halos at high redshift, generalizing our earlier results to include the effects of radiative cooling and heating from a UV background, using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 Nir Mandelker , Daisuke Nagai , Han Aung , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim , Frank van den Bosch

The common feature of sheared flows of an ideal fluid and plasma in magnetic field is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. This instability is described by identical equations in mentioned two cases. The wave equation for the eigenmodes in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 A. Yu. Chirkov , V. I. Khvesyuk

Transversal oscillations of spicules axes may be related to the propagation of magnetohydrodynamic waves along them. These waves may become unstable and the instability can be of the Kelvin-Helmholtz type. We use the dispersion relation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Ajabshirizadeh , H. Ebadi , R. E. Vekalati , K. Molaverdikhani

Over past ten years a variety of jet-like phenomena were detected in the solar atmosphere, including plasma ejections over a range of coronal temperatures being observed as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray jets. We study the possibility…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. Zhelyazkov , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava

A two-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model with 19 discrete velocities for compressible Euler equations is proposed (D2V19-LBM). The fifth-order Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (5th-WENO) finite difference scheme is employed to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yingjun Li

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability of a shear layer with an initially-uniform magnetic field in the direction of flow is studied in the framework of 2D incompressible magnetohydrodynamics with finite resistivity and viscosity using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , J. M. Schroeder

We model an imaged Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability on a coronal mass ejecta (CME) in the lower corona by investigating conditions under which kink ($m = 1$) and $m = -3$ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in an uniformly twisted flux tube…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Chandra

We represent the outermost shear interface of an eddy by a circular vortex sheet in two dimensions, and provide a new proof of linear instability via the Birkhoff-Rott equation. Like planar vortex sheets, circular sheets are found to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-16 Galen Wilcox , Ryan Murray

Performing accurate large eddy simulations in compressible, turbulent magnetohydrodynamics is more challenging than in non-magnetized fluids due to the complex interplay between kinetic, magnetic and internal energy at different scales.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 Daniele Viganò , Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Carlos Palenzuela

The modelling of astrophysical systems such as binary neutron star mergers or the formation of magnetars from the collapse of massive stars involves the numerical evolution of magnetised fluids at extremely large Reynolds numbers. This is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-20 Miquel Miravet-Tenés , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Martin Obergaulinger , José A. Font

Given the importance of shear flows for astrophysical gas dynamics, we study the evolution of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) analytically and numerically. We derive the dispersion relation for the two-dimensional KHI including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Veronika Junk , Stefanie Walch , Fabian Heitsch , Andreas Burkert , Markus Wetzstein , Marc Schartmann , Daniel Price

In the present review article, we discuss the recent developments in studying the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating in various solar magnetic structures. The main description is on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 I. Zhelyazkov

Collisionless plasma instabilities are fundamental in magnetic field generation in astrophysical scenarios, but their role has been addressed in scenarios where velocity shear is absent. In this work we show that velocity shears must be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 E. P. Alves , T. Grismayer , S. F. Martins , F. Fiúza , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

Ambient interstellar material may become entrained in outflows from massive stars as a result of shear flow instabilities. We study the linear theory of the Kelvin - Helmholtz instability, the simplest example of shear flow instability, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Watson , E. G. Zweibel , F. Heitsch , E. Churchwell

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

We investigate the hydrodynamics of the interaction of two supersonic winds in binary systems. The collision of the winds creates two shocks separated by a contact discontinuity. The overall structure depends on the momentum flux ratio eta…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Astrid Lamberts , Sebastien Fromang , Guillaume Dubus

We investigate the linear instability of two-layer stratified shear flows in a sloping two-dimensional channel, subject to non-zero longitudinal gravitational forces. We reveal three previously unknown instabilities, distinct from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-20 Lu Zhu , Amir Atoufi , Adrien Lefauve , Rich R. Kerswell , P. F. Linden

Stability of cylindrical interface between two ideal incompressible fluids, including the magnetic field, surface tension and gravitational field is studied in linear approximation. We found that helical waves arising both in plasma comet…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 A. I. Ershkovich , P. L. Israelevich