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A systematic study of the linear thermal stability of a medium subject to cooling, self-gravity and thermal conduction is carried out for the case when the unperturbed state is subject to global cooling and expansion. A general, recursive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. J. Gomez-Pelaez , F. Moreno-Insertis

Using both analytical and numerical means, we demonstrate that linear stability analysis of a hydrodynamic stratified atmosphere or a 1D coronal loop model in non-adiabatic settings features a thermal continuum corresponding to highly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Rony Keppens , Jordi De Jonghe , Adrian Kelly , Nicolas Brughmans , Hans Goedbloed

We revisit the classical thermodynamic stability of the standard black hole solutions by implementing the intrinsic necessary and sufficient conditions for stable global and local thermodynamic equilibrium. The criteria for such equilibria…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 V. Avramov , H. Dimov , M. Radomirov , R. C. Rashkov , T. Vetsov

We investigate a simplified model of two fully connected magnetic systems maintained at different temperatures by virtue of being connected to two independent thermal baths while simultaneously being inter-connected with each other. Using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto C. Alamino , Amit Chattopadhyay , David Saad

We show how the stability conditions for a system of interacting fermions that conventionally involve variations of thermodynamic potentials can be rewritten in terms of one- and two-particle correlators. We illustrate the applicability of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-09 A. Kowalski , M. Reitner , L. Del Re , M. Chatzieleftheriou , A. Amaricci , A. Toschi , L. de' Medici , G. Sangiovanni , T. Schäfer

We investigate electromagnetic buoyancy instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with the heat flux based on not the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, but using the multicomponent plasma approach when the momentum equations are solved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Anatoly Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

In this paper we consider a system coupling a wave equation with a heat equation through its boundary conditions. The existence of a small parameter in the heat equation, as a factor multiplying the time derivative, implies the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Gonzalo Arias , Eduardo Cerpa , Swann Marx

We explore analytically the structure of relativistic shock and solitary wave solutions in collisionless plasmas. In the wave frame of reference, a cold plasma is flowing from one end and impacting on a low velocity plasma. First we show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Medvigy , Abraham Loeb

We analyze the linear stability of a dilute, hot plasma, taking into account the effects of stratification and anisotropic thermal conduction. The work is motivated by attempts to understand the dynamics of the intracluster medium in galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-04 Steven A. Balbus , Christopher S. Reynolds

The linear stability of chains of magnetic vortices in a plasma is investigated analytically in two dimensions by means of a reduced fluid model assuming a strong guide field and accounting for equilibrium electron temperature anisotropy.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 C. Granier , E. Tassi

Thermal instability in an electron-ion magnetized plasma, which is relevant in the intragalactic medium (IGM) of galaxy clusters, solar corona, and other two-component plasma objects is investigated. We apply the multicomponent plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Anatoly K. Nekrasov

We study the stability and the modes of non -- isothermal coronal loop models with different intensity values of the equilibrium twisted magnetic field.We use an energy principle obtained via non -- equilibrium thermodynamic arguments. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Costa , R. Gonzalez

The buoyancy-induced parallel flow in a vertical cylindrical porous layer is analysed. A radial thermal gradient caused by a uniformly distributed heat source is assumed to induce the buoyant flow. The layer boundaries are modelled as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-03 A. Barletta , D. A. S. Rees , B. Pulvirenti

The thermal stability of a weakly magnetized, rotating, stratified, optically thin plasma is studied by means of linear-perturbation analysis. We derive dispersion relations and criteria for stability against axisymmetric perturbations that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Carlo Nipoti , Lorenzo Posti

The formation of thermoacoustic shocks is studied in a fluid complex plasma. The thermoacoustic wave mode can be damped (or anti-damped) when the contribution from the thermoacoustic interaction is lower (or higher) than that due to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 A. P. Misra , G. Banerjee

In this work, we present a linear stability analysis of fully-ionized rotating plasma disks with a temperature gradient and a sub-thermal background magnetic field (oriented towards the axial direction). We describe how the plasma reacts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alessio Franco , Giovanni Montani , Nakia Carlevaro

We present a general formulation for stability analyses of radiative shocks with multiple cooling processes, longitudinal and transverse perturbations, and unequal electron and ion temperatures. Using the accretion shocks of magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu

A linear analysis based on two-fluid equations in the approximation of a cold plasma, wherein the plasma temperature is assumed to be zero, demonstrates that a two-stream instability occurs in all cases. However, if this were true, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Shinji Koide , Masaaki Takahashi , Rohta Takahashi

The stability of three static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions with nonlinear electromagnetism as a source is investigated in three different ways. We show that the specific heat of all the solutions displays an infinite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-13 Nora Bretón , Santiago Esteban Perez Bergliaffa

Linear analysis of the stability of diffuse clouds in the cold neutral medium with uniform magnetic field is performed. We consider that gas in equilibrium state is heated by cosmic rays, X-rays and electronic photoeffect on the surface of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander E. Dudorov , Constantine E. Stepanov , Sergey O. Fomin , Sergey A. Khaibrakhmanov