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The conditions for the development of a Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) for the Quark-gluon Plasma (QGP) flow in a peripheral heavy-ion collision is investigated. The projectile and target side particles are separated by an energetically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-02-22 D. J. Wang , Z. Néda , L. P. Csernai

Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability plays a significant role in transport and mixing properties of any medium. In this paper, we numerically explore this instability for a two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasma with rotational shear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Vikram Dharodi , Bhavesh Patel , Amita Das

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

The study of shear layer instability in compressible flows is key to understanding phenomena from aerodynamics to astrophysical jets. Blumen's seminal paper [``Shear layer instability of an inviscid compressible fluid," J. Fluid Mech. {\bf…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-29 Symphony Chakraborty , Hsien Shang

Virial shocks at edges of cosmic-web structures are a clear prediction of standard structure formation theories. We derive a criterion for the stability of the post-shock gas and of the virial shock itself in spherical, filamentary and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-24 Yuval Birnboim , Dan Padnos , Elad Zinger

We report on a three-dimensional MHD numerical experiment of a small scale coronal mass ejection (CME) -like eruption propagating though a non-magnetized solar atmosphere. We find that the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) develops at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 P. Syntelis , P. Antolin

The shear flow influences the stability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. In the presence of a dissipation mechanism, flow shear may induce a MHD wave instability below the threshold of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI), which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 D. J. Yu

A mathematical model describing motion of an inhomogeneous incompressible fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell is considered. Linear stability analysis of shear flow class is provided. The role of inertia, linear friction and impermeable boundaries in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-28 Alexander Chesnokov , Irina Stepanova

We investigate shear driven wave generation at the interface between two immiscible fluids, using an exponential velocity profile with a sharp density interface representing stable stratification. At low Froude and high Bond numbers,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-12 Anil Kumar , S. Ravichandran , Ratul Dasgupta

Shear flows have an important impact on the dynamics in an assortment of different astrophysical objects including accreditation discs and stellar interiors. Investigating shear flow instabilities in a polytropic atmosphere provides a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 V. Witzke , L. J. Silvers , B. Favier

Flow-induced instabilities are relevant for the storage and dynamics of magnetic fields in stellar convection zones and possibly also in other astrophysical contexts. We continue the study started in the first paper of this series by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Holzwarth , D. Schmitt , M. Schuessler

We study the linear theory of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a layer of ions and neutrals with finite thickness. In the short wavelength limit the thickness of the layer has a negligible effect on the growing modes. However, perturbations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mohsen Shadmehri , Turlough P. Downes

Ocean submesoscales, flows with characteristic size around 10 m - 10 km, are transitional between the larger, rotationally-constrained mesoscale and three-dimensional turbulence. In this paper we present simulations of a submesoscale ocean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Erin Atkinson , James McWilliams , Nicolas Grisouard

Recent numerical simulations have demonstrated that transverse coronal loop oscillations are susceptible to the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability due to the counter-streaming motions at the loop boundary. We present the first analytical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Mihai Barbulescu , Michael S. Ruderman , Tom Van Doorsselaere , 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

We use high-resolution zoom-in simulations to study the fueling of the central galaxies by gas accretion from cosmological filaments at high redshifts, z>=2. Their parent haloes with similar DM masses of log(M_vir/M})~11.65, have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

Parker instability arises from the presence of magnetic fields in a plasma in a gravitational field such as the interstellar medium (ISM), wherein the magnetic buoyant pressure expels the gas and causes the gas to move along the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-07 Chih-Yueh Wang , Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko

Recent observations support the propagation of a number of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes which, under some conditions, can become unstable and the developing instability is the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability (KHI). In its nonlinear stage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 Ivan Zhelyazkov , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi

Dynamical instabilities in fluid mechanics are responsible of a variety of important common phenomena, such as waves on the sea surface or Taylor vorteces in Couette flow. In granular media dynamical instabilities has just begun to be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Pica Ciamarra , Mario Nicodemi , Antonio Coniglio

This paper describes the evolution of two-dimensional (2D) gravity currents that flow against a horizontally uniform laminar pulsating flow. We study the effect of opposing mean flow amplitude and the oscillatory velocity amplitude on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Cem Bingol , Matias Duran-Matute , Eckart Meiburg , Herman J. H. Clercx