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The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a fundamental mechanism determining the macroscopic dynamics of astrophysical accretion disks. In collisionless accretion flows around supermassive black holes, MRI-driven plasma turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Fabio Bacchini , Lev Arzamasskiy , Vladimir Zhdankin , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Bearing in mind the application to core-collapse supernovae, we study nonlinear properties of the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) by means of three- dimensional simulations in the framework of a local shearing box approximation. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Y. Masada , T. Takiwaki , K. Kotake , T. Sano

We consider the conditions under which a rotating magnetic object can produce a magnetically powered outflow in an initially unmagnetized medium stratified under gravity. 3D MHD simulations are presented in which the footpoints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Moll

The nonlinear dynamics of beta-induced Alfv\'en Eigenmodes (BAE) driven by energetic particles (EP) in the presence of ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) turbulence is investigated, by means of selfconsistent global gyrokinetic simulations and…

The study and characterization of the diversity of spatiotemporal patterns generated when a rectangular layer of fluid is locally heated beneath its free surface is presented. We focus on the instability of a stationary cellular pattern of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-01-21 Montserrat A. Miranda , Javier Burguete

We investigated the impacts of magnetorotational instability (MRI) on the dynamics of weakly magnetized, rapidly rotating core-collapse by conducting high resolution MHD simulations in axisymmetry with simplified neutrino transfer. We found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada

We investigate elastic, inelastic, and coalescent collisions between two-dimensional flat-top solitons supported by the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Numerical simulations reveal distinct collision regimes ranging from…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-07 M. O. D. Alotaibi , Y. O. A. Abughnheim , L. Al Sakkaf , U. Al Khawaja

We model the effects of confinement on the stable self-organized patterns obtained in the non-equilibrium steady states of mixtures of molecular motors and microtubules. In experiments [Nedelec et al. Nature, 389, 305 (1997); Surrey et al.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sumithra Sankararaman , Gautam I. Menon , P. B. Sunil Kumar

Turbulent transport is regarded as one of the key issues in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, both for tokamaks in stellarators. In this work, we show that a significant decrease in a microstability-based proxy, as opposed to a geometric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 R. Jorge , W. Dorland , P. Kim , M. Landreman , N. R. Mandell , G. Merlo , T. Qian

Ion-gyroradius-scale microinstabilities typically have a frequency comparable to the ion transit frequency. Due to the small electron-to-ion mass ratio and the large electron transit frequency, it is conventionally assumed that passing…

We present a simple and fast method to simulate spin-torque driven magnetisation dynamics in nano-pillar spin-valve structures. The approach is based on the coupling between a spin transport code based on random matrix theory and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Simone Borlenghi , M. R. Mahani , Hans Fangohr , Matteo Franchin , Anna Delin , Jonas Fransson

Most computer simulations of molecular dynamics take place under equilibrium conditions--in a closed, isolated system, or perhaps one held at constant temperature or pressure. Sometimes, extra tensions, shears, or temperature gradients are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-25 Alex Albaugh , Todd R. Gingrich

This work aims at improving our understanding of the conditions enabling the development of an Internal transport barriers (ITB), using a more comprehensive physical model, including low-$\beta$ electromagnetic flux-driven simulations. Our…

We study the saturation near threshold of the axisymmetric magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a viscous, resistive, incompressible fluid in a thin-gap Taylor-Couette configuration. A vertical magnetic field, Keplerian shear and no-slip,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. M. Umurhan , O. Regev , K. Menou

This paper presents a formalism of mixing induced by non-orographic gravity waves (GWs) to integrate with the stochastic GWs scheme in the Mars Planetary Climate Model. We derive the formalism of GWs and their mixing under the same…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jiandong Liu , Ehouarn Millour , François Forget , François Lott , Jean-Yves Chaufray

Magnetic islands play a crucial role in regulating plasma confinement in tokamaks by interacting with micro-instabilities, such as the ion temperature gradient (ITG) mode. This work presents a detailed investigation of the effects of static…

We study the effects of anisotropic thermal conduction on low-collisionality, astrophysical plasmas using two and three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. For weak magnetic fields, dilute plasmas are buoyantly unstable for either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-05 Michael McCourt , Ian J. Parrish , Prateek Sharma , Eliot Quataert

A new type of instability - electrokinetic instability - and an unusual transition to chaotic motion near a charge-selective surface was studied by numerical integration of the Nernst-Planck-Poisson-Stokes system and a weakly nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-17 E. A. Demekhin , N. V. Nikitin , V. S. Shelistov

Turbulent transport remains one of the principal obstacles to achieving efficient magnetic confinement in fusion devices. Two of the dominant drivers of the turbulence are microscale instabilities fuelled by electron- and ion-temperature…

We study the relationship between the granular contact angle distribution and local particle friction on the macroscopic friction and bulk modulus in non-cohesive disk packings. Molecular dynamics in two dimensions are used to simulate…

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