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Although internal gravity waves are generally recognized as an important mechanism to distribute energy through the atmosphere, their dynamics near the instability is only partially understood to date. Many types of instabilities, notably…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-02 Georg Sebastian Voelker , Mark Schlutow

In this note, we propose a new idea by analyzing the basic disturbance equations, and give starting equations for understanding the instability phenomena of laminar flows and transition to turbulence. It is considered that there is an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hua-Shu Dou

The transport of heat out of tokamak plasmas by turbulence is the dominant mechanism limiting the performance of fusion reactors. Turbulence can be driven by the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and suppressed by toroidal sheared flows.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Ferdinand van Wyk

The propagation of unstable interfaces is at the origin of remarkable patterns that are observed in various areas of science as chemical reactions, phase transitions, growth of bacterial colonies. Since a scalar equation generates usually…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Michal Kolwalczyk , Benoit Perthame , Nicolas Vauchelet

Pole-skipping offers compelling evidence for the hydrodynamic origin of chaotic behavior in strongly coupled quantum systems. We demonstrate that the cumulative effect of higher-order corrections to the hydrodynamic diffusive mode, captured…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Hyun-Sik Jeong

The intracluster medium (ICM) is stably stratified in the hydrodynamic sense with the entropy $s$ increasing outwards. However, thermal conduction along magnetic field lines fundamentally changes the stability of the ICM, leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Sharma , B. D. G. Chandran , E. Quataert , I. J. Parrish

To be a formation mechanism of such large-scale structures as giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and HI superclouds, the classical Parker instability driven by external gravity has to overcome three major obstacles: The convective motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sang Min Lee , S. S. Hong

Turbulence is ever produced in the low-viscosity/large-scale fluid flows by the velocity shears and, in unstable stratification, by buoyancy forces. It is commonly believed that both mechanisms produce the same type of chaotic motions,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Sergej S Zilitinkevich , Evgeny Kadantsev , Irina Repina , Evgeny Mortikov , Andrey Glazunov

Traditionally the effects of MHD instabilities and micro-instabilities on plasma confinement are investigated separately. However, these two instabilities often occur simultaneously, with the overlap of the dynamics on a broad range of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-07-06 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim

Rigorous theories of the tearing instability are mathematically quite involving. Therefore, the present note aims to demonstrate how their main results can be reproduced by a simple qualitative analysis of the respective magnetohydrodynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Grigory Vekstein

Recent studies have suggested that the tearing instability may play a significant role in magnetic turbulence. In this work, we review the theory of the magnetohydrodynamic tearing instability in the general case of an arbitrary tearing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno F. Loureiro

We investigate the connections between microscopic chaos, defined on a dynamical level and arising from collisions between molecules, and diffusion, characterized by a mean square displacement proportional to the time. We use a number of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Dettmann , E. G. D. Cohen

Active stresses can cause instabilities in contractile gels and living tissues. Here we describe a generic hydrodynamic theory that treats these systems as a mixture of two phases of varying activity and different mechanical properties. We…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Christoph Weber , Chris H. Rycroft , L. Mahadevan

Turbulent and internal wave motions are important for the exchange of momentum, heat and suspended matter in the deep-sea which is generally stably stratified in density. Turbulence-generation models involve shear of vertical current…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-21 Hans van Haren

Earthquakes are indeed triggered by fault dislocations, but whether this process alone can produce the actual earthquake energy released by the mainshock has long been questioned. Therefore, exploring the true source of energy that causes…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-02-24 Xiaoping Mao , Xueqiang Zhang , Yuci Su , Ke Mao , Pengyu Lu , Fei Zhang

A mechanism of excitation of the large-scale inertial waves in a rotating inhomogeneous turbulence due to an excitation of a large-scale instability is found. This instability is caused by a combined effect of the inhomogeneity of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Elperin , I. Golubev , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

The present numerical study aims at shedding light on the mechanism underlying the precessional instability in a sphere. Precessional instabilities in the form of parametric resonance due to topographic coupling have been reported in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-24 Yufeng Lin , Philippe Marti , Jerome Noir

This study investigates Parker instability in an interstellar medium (ISM) near the Galactic plane using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. Parker instability arises from the presence of a magnetic field in a plasma,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-06 Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko , Chih-Yueh Wang

In the mathematical modeling of strongly nonequilibrium and nonlinear processes in a tornado approach based on the momentum transfer equations with a model function of sources and sinks is used, which puts this approach to the sharpening…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2011-09-26 G. P. Bystrai , I. A. Lykov , S. A. Okhotnikov

The transport of cosmic rays (CRs) is crucial for the understanding of almost all high-energy phenomena. Both pre-existing large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and locally generated turbulence through plasma instabilities are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Olga Lebiga , Reinaldo Santos-Lima , Huirong Yan