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The magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor (MRT) instability has been investigated in great detail in previous work using magnetohydrodynamic and kinetic models for low-beta plasmas. The work presented here extends previous studies of this instability to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Bhuvana Srinivasan , Ammar Hakim

Relativistic astrophysical phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei often require long-lived strong magnetic field. Here, we report on three-dimensional special-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Katsuaki Asano , Kunihito Ioka

Reactive Rayleigh-Taylor systems are characterized by the competition between the growth of the instability and the rate of reaction between cold (heavy) and hot (light) phases. We present results from state-of-the-art numerical simulations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-14 A. Scagliarini , L. Biferale , F. Mantovani , M. Sbragaglia , F. Toschi , R. Tripiccione

Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities (RTI) play an important role in the evolution of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) processes, while analytical prediction of the RTI growth rate often fails to reach an agreement with the experimental and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Y. Guo , D. Wu , J. Zhang

Aims. We investigate the impact of ambipolar diffusion on the development of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) with an oblique magnetic field in the incompressible limit. Methods. We developed a general bi-fluid framework comprising…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-25 E. Callies , V. Guillet , A. Marcowith , Z. Meliani , P. Lesaffre

We study Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at the coronal-prominence boundary by means of 2.5D numerical simulations in a single-fluid MHD approach including a generalized Ohm's law. The initial configuration includes a homogeneous magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Khomenko , A. Diaz , A. de Vicente , M. Collados , M. Luna

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability widely exists in nature and engineering fields. How to better understand the physical mechanism of RT instability is of great theoretical significance and practical value. At present, abundant results of RT…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Lu Chen , Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Demei Li

We study the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability in relativistic collisionless plasma, as an astrophysical process for nonthermal particle acceleration. We consider dense plasma on top of a highly magnetized cavity with sheared magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 Vladimir Zhdankin , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability commonly arises in compressible systems with time-dependent acceleration in practical applications. To capture the complex dynamics of such systems, a two-component discrete Boltzmann method is developed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Hao Xu , Hailong Liu , Demei Li , Bailing Chen

We study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) of electrostatic plane wave perturbations in compressible relativistic magnetoplasma fluids with thermal ions under gravity in three different cases of when (i) electrons are in isothermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 R. Dey , A. P. Misra

Synchrotron emission from a supernova necessitates a magnetic field, but it is unknown how strong the relevant magnetic fields are, and what mechanism generates them. In this study, we perform high-resolution numerical gas dynamics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 Paul Duffell , Daniel Kasen

Aims: To quantify the transient growth of nonaxisymmetric perturbations in unstratified magnetized and stratified non-magnetized rotating linear shear flows in the shearing sheet approximation of accretion disc flows. Method: The Rayleigh…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg , Boris Dintrans

Nonresonant current instability was identified by Bell (2004) as an important mechanism for magnetic field amplification in supernova remnants. In this paper we focus on studying the nonlinear stage of this instability using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-06 Andrey Beresnyak , Hui Li

The interaction of differential rotation and toroidal fields that are current-free in the gap between two corotating axially unbounded cylinders is considered. It is shown that nonaxisymmetric perturbations are unstable if the rotation rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Ruediger , M. Gellert , M. Schultz , R. Hollerbach , F. Stefani

The two-fluid (ions and electrons) plasma Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of a cylindrical light/heavy density interface is numerically investigated without an initial magnetic field. Varying the Debye length scale, we examine the effects of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Y. Li , R. Samtaney , D. Bond , V. Wheatley

The effects of isothermal stratification strength on vorticity dynamics for single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) are examined using two dimensional fully compressible wavelet-based direct numerical simulations. The simulations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-17 Scott A. Wieland , Peter E. Hamlington , Scott J. Reckinger , Daniel Livescu

Magnetic buoyancy instability plays an important role in the evolution of astrophysical magnetic fields. Here we revisit the problem introduced by \citet{Gilman_1970} of the short wavelength linear stability of a plane layer of compressible…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 K. A. Mizerski , C. R. Davies , D. W. Hughes

Many astrophysical phenomena (such as the slow rotation of neutron stars or the rigid rotation of the solar core) can be explained by the action of the Tayler instability of toroidal magnetic fields in the radiative zones of stars. In order…

The instability characteristics of lean hydrogen/air flames have attracted considerable research attention, yet the effect of gravity remains insufficiently understood. In this study, time-resolved two-dimensional simulations with detailed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Qizhe Wen , Yan Wang , Linlin Yang , Yiqing Wang , Thorsten Zirwes , Shengkai Wang , Zheng Chen

The linear and nonlinear evolution of magnetic reconnection in collisionless high-temperature plasmas with a strong guide field is analyzed on the basis of a two-dimensional gyrofluid model. The linear growth rate of the reconnecting…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Luca Comisso , Daniela Grasso , François L. Waelbroeck , Dario Borgogno