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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

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

The linear MHD Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in an anisotropic plasma concerning the direction of an external magnetic field is examined in detail. For this purpose, the MHD equations are used to describe the motion of plasma as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 N. S. Dzhalilov , R. Ismayilli

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

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 present an analytic toy model for the radiation produced by the interaction between the cold streams thought to feed massive halos at high redshift and their hot CGM. We begin by deriving cosmologically motivated parameters for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Nir Mandelker , Frank C. van den Bosch , Daisuke Nagai , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim , Han Aung

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

Magnetohydrodynamic kink waves naturally form as a consequence of perturbations to a structured medium, for example transverse oscillations of coronal loops. Linear theory has provided many insights in the evolution of linear oscillations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui , Takeshi Matsumoto

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

Linear stability analysis of strongly coupled incompressible dusty plasma in presence of shear flow has been carried out using Generalized Hydrodynamical(GH) model. With the proper Galilean invariant GH model, a nonlocal eigenvalue analysis…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Banerjee , M. S. Janaki , N. Chakrabarti

Simulations and observations of the low-latitude magnetosphere-magnetosheath boundary layer indicate that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) drives vortex structures that enhance plasma mixing and magnetic reconnection, influencing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Silvia Ferro , Fabio Bacchini , Giuseppe Arrò , Francesco Pucci , Pierre Henri

Stability analysis of two-fluid protoplanetary disc models has enriched our understanding of how solids can grow into larger bodies called planetesimals. Dust particles entrained in a gas stream modify the flow, creating shear layers prone…

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a nonlinear shear-driven instability that develops at the interface between shear flows in plasmas. KHI has been inferred in various astrophysical plasmas and has been observed in situ at the…

The shear-flow-driven instability can play an important role in energy transfer processes in coronal plasma. We present for the first time the observation of a kink-like oscillation of a streamer probably caused by the streaming kinkmode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Li Feng , Bernd Inhester , Weiqun Gan

The formation of planetesimals is an unsolved problem in planet formation theory. A prominent scenario for overcoming dust growth barriers in dead zones is the gravitational collapse of locally over-dense regions, shown to robustly produce…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Konstantin Gerbig , Ruth A. Murray-Clay , Hubert Klahr , Hans Baehr

Dust is present in a large variety of astrophysical fluids, from tori around supermassive black holes to molecular clouds, protoplanetary discs, and cometary outflows. In many such fluids, shearing flows are present, leading to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Tom Hendrix , Rony Keppens

We examine the settled particle layers of planet forming disks in which the streaming instability (SI) is thought to be either weak or inactive. A suite of low-to-moderate resolution three-dimensional simulations in a $0.2H$ sized box,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Debanjan Sengupta , Orkan M. Umurhan

Observations have shown the presence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHi) in solar prominences. Effects due to partial ionization of the prominence plasma may influence the KHi onset. We study the triggering of the KHi in an interface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Llorenç Melis , Roberto Soler

Most massive galaxies are thought to contain a supermassive black hole in their centre surrounded by a tenuous gas environment, leading to no significant emission. In these quiescent galaxies, tidal disruption events represent a powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-07 Clément Bonnerot , Elena M. Rossi , Giuseppe Lodato

A star destroyed by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a tidal disruption event (TDE) is transformed into a filamentary structure known as a tidally disrupted stellar debris stream. We show that when ideal gas pressure dominates the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Eric R. Coughlin