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We present observations of the formation, propagation and decay of vortex- shaped features in coronal images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) associated with an eruption starting at about 2:30UT on Apr 8, 2010. The series of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Leon Ofman , Barbara J. Thompson

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) can occur when there is a relative motion between two adjacent fluids. In the case of magnetized plasma, the shear velocity must exceed the local Alfv\'{e}n speed for the instability to develop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Leon Ofman , Olga Khabarova , Ryun-Yong Kwon , Yogesh , Eyal Heifetz , Katariina Nykyri

We study the evolutionary conditions for Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability in a H-alpha solar surge observed in NOAA AR 8227 on 1998 May 30. The jet with speeds in the range of 45-50 km/s, width of 7 Mm, and electron number density of 3.83…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava , T. Mishonov

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

The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) has been observed in the solar atmosphere. Ion-neutral collisions may play a relevant role for the growth rate and evolution of the KHI in solar partially ionized plasmas as in, e.g., solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Soler , A. J. Diaz , J. L. Ballester , M. Goossens

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is a ubiquitous physical process in ordinary fluids and plasmas, frequently observed also in space environments. In this paper, kinetic effects at proton scales in the nonlinear and turbulent stage of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 A. Settino , F. Malara , O. Pezzi , M. Onofri , D. Perrone , F. Valentini

We use multiwavelength imaging observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to study the evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) instability in a fan-spine magnetic field configuration.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Sudheer K. Mishra , Balveer Singh , A. K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , B. N. Dwivedi

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 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

The nonlinear magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHi), and the turbulence it creates, appears in many astrophysical systems. This includes those systems where the local plasma conditions are such that the plasma is not fully ionised,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Andrew Hillier

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

We report here, for the first time, an observed instability of a Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) nature occurring in a fully three-dimensional (3D) current-vortex sheet at the fan plane of a 3D magnetic null point. The current-vortex layer forms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-09 P. F. Wyper , D. I. Pontin

We study Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability at the interface of a disc and corona system by doing a linear perturbation analysis. The disc is assumed to be thin, however, the corona is considered to be nearly quasispherical because of its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Mohsen Shadmehri , Perikles Rammos

Using two-dimensional simulations, we numerically explore the dependences of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability upon various physical parameters, including viscosity, width of sheared layer, flow speed, and magnetic field strength. In most cases,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Chunlin Tian , Yao Chen

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

Instabilities in oscillating loops are believed to be essential for dissipating the wave energy and heating the solar coronal plasma. Our aim is to study the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability in an oscillating loop that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Konstantinos Karampelas , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Mingzhe Guo , Timothy Duckenfield , Gabriel Pelouze

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…

Cool, dense material is frequently observed to permeate the hot, tenuous solar corona in the form of prominences, spicules and coronal rain. Both the cool material and surrounding corona exist at temperatures that are effectively thermally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 B. Snow , A. Hillier

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

We study here the arising of Kelvin--Helmholtz Instability (KHI) in one fast jet of 2014 April 16 observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in different UV and EUV wavelengths. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 M. Bogdanova , I. Zhelyazkov , R. Joshi , R. Chandra
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