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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

We complete classical investigations concerning the dynamical stability of an infinite homogeneous gaseous medium described by the Euler-Poisson system or an infinite homogeneous stellar system described by the Vlasov-Poisson system (Jeans…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

It is shown that the interaction of helicity-1 waves of gravity and matter in a thin slab configuration produces new types of instabilities. Indeed, a transverse spin-2 helicity-1 mode interacts strongly with the shear motion of matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Luis Bento , Jose P. S. Lemos

In this paper we develop two models for the steady states and evolution of two dimensional isothermal self gravitating and rotating incompressible gas which are based on the hydrodynamic equations for stratified fluid. The first model is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Mayer Humi , Zilu Tian

We show a case of steady flow in a granular gas that, for small shear rates, is accurately described by Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics, even for high inelasticity. The (low density) granular gas is composed of identical inelastic spheres and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-15 Francisco Vega Reyes

We consider the motion of the interface separating a vacuum from an inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational fluid, subject to the self-gravitational force and neglecting surface tension, in two space dimensions. The fluid motion is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Lydia Bieri , Shuang Miao , Sohrab Shahshahani , Sijue Wu

Rayleigh-Taylor and Buoyancy-driven instabilities are very common instabilities for an inhomogeneous medium. We examine here how these instabilities grow for incompressible viscoelastic fluids like a strongly coupled dusty plasma by using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Vikram S. Dharodi , Amita Das

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 transport coefficients of a dilute classical gas in the presence of a drag force proportional to the velocity of the particle are determined from the Boltzmann equation. The viscous drag force could model the friction of solid particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 José Carlos Pérez-Fuentes , Vicente Garzó

The lattice Boltzmann equation describes the evolution of the velocity distribution function on a lattice in a manner that macroscopic fluid dynamical behavior is recovered. Although the equation is a derivative of lattice gas automata, it…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 James D. Sterling , Shiyi Chen

We study the Jeans instability of a self-gravitating fluid in the context of alternative gravitational theories. Our formulation accommodates arbitrary corrections to the Newtonian potential, providing a versatile approach to analyzing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Ryan Khaled , Kamel Ourabah

The temporal stability of an inviscid flow through cylindrical geometries with a porous wall subjected to non-axisymmetric perturbations is investigated in the present work using an unsteady Darcy equation for the porous layer. An…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-06 Ramkarn Patne

The generation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and their instabilities are studied in galactic gaseous rotating plasmas with the effects of the magnetic field, the self gravity, the diffusion-convection of cosmic rays as well as the gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Jyoti Turi , A. P. Misra

Compressible flow varies from ideal-gas behavior at high pressures where molecular interactions become important. Density is described through a cubic equation of state while enthalpy and sound speed are functions of both temperature and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-11 William A. Sirignano

Starting from the Liouville equation, and using a BBGKY-like hierarchy, we derive a kinetic equation for the point vortex gas in two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamics, taking two-body correlations and collective effects into account. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Local thermal instability can plausibly explain the formation of multiphase gas in many different astrophysical environments, but the theory is only well understood in the optically thin limit of the equations of radiation hydrodynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Daniel Proga , Tim Waters , Sergei Dyda , Zhaohuan Zhu

The formation of velocity vortices and density clusters is an intriguing phenomenon of freely cooling granular flows. In this work, the critical length scale $L_c$ for the onset of instability is determined via stability analysis of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Vicente Garzó

We study the two dimensional viscous Boussinesq equations, which model stratified flows in a circular domain under the influence of a general gravitational potential $f$. First, we show that the Boussinesq equations admit steady-state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Song Jiang , Quan Wang

The hydrodynamic Burnett equations and the associated transport coefficients are exactly evaluated for generalized inelastic Maxwell models. In those models, the one-particle distribution function obeys the inelastic Boltzmann equation,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-07 Nagi Khalil , Vicente Garzó , Andrés Santos

The manuscript focuses on the theoretical stability analysis of the viscous liquid over a vibrating inclined rigid bed when the fluid undergoes an impact of odd viscosity. Such an impact emerges in the classical fluid owing to the broken…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-01 Md. Mouzakkir Hossain , Mrityunjoy Saha , Harekrushna Behera , Sukhendu Ghosh