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We study theoretically nonlinear dynamics induced by shear-flow instability in segregated two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in terms of the Weber number, defined by extending the past theory on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-18 Haruya Kokubo , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

We consider the linear stability of two inviscid fluids, in the presence of gravity, sheared past each other and separated by an flexible plate. Conditions for exponential growth of velocity perturbations are found as functions of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Chou

We study the linear theory of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a layer of ions and neutrals with finite thickness. In the short wavelength limit the thickness of the layer has a negligible effect on the growing modes. However, perturbations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mohsen Shadmehri , Turlough P. Downes

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is well known to be capable of converting well-ordered flows into more disordered, even turbulent, flows. As such it could represent a path by which the energy in, for example, bowshocks from stellar jets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-11-03 Aoife C. Jones , Turlough P. Downes

We investigate conditions under which kink magnetohydrodynamic waves propagating along photospheric uniformly twisted flux tubes with axial mass flows become unstable as a consequence of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. We employed the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. Zhelyazkov , T. V. Zaqarashvili

We study the shear-driven instability, of Kelvin-Helmholtz type, that forms at the interface between a cylindrical jet of flowing fluid and its surroundings. The results of an infinitesimal-amplitude theory based on linearising the system…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-24 Earl S. Lester , Lawrence K. Forbes

A numerical study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in compressible magnetohydrodynamics is presented. The three-dimensional simulations consider shear flow in a cylindrical jet configuration, embedded in a uniform magnetic field directed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Keppens , G. Toth

This paper provides the first study of a new dynamical instability in superfluids. This instability is similar to the two-stream instability known to operate in plasmas. It is analogous to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but has the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer , R. Prix

Waves with different symmetries exist in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) whose dynamics is described by a system of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations. A first type of waves corresponds to excitations for which the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-22 A. M. Kamchatnov , Y. V. Kartashov , P. -É. Larré , N. Pavloff

Stability of cylindrical interface between two ideal incompressible fluids, including the magnetic field, surface tension and gravitational field is studied in linear approximation. We found that helical waves arising both in plasma comet…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 A. I. Ershkovich , P. L. Israelevich

Plane waves in Kerr media spontaneously generate paraxial X-waves (i.e. non-dispersive and non-diffractive pulsed beams) that get amplified along propagation. This effect can be considered a form of conical emission (i.e. spatio-temporal…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Conti

The 1-D Two-Fluid Model (TFM) promises a powerful and computationally cheap platform for simulating multi-fluid flow phenomena. However, runaway Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities plagued previous approaches, necessitating aphysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Alexander López-de-Bertodano , Alejandro Clausse

We present here a survey of recent results concerning the mathematical analysis of instabilities of the interface between two incompressible, non viscous, fluids of constant density and vorticity concentrated on the interface. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Claude Bardos , David Lannes

We study the formation and propagation of chirped elliptic and solitary waves in cubic-quintic nonlinear Helmholtz (CQNLH) equation. This system describes nonparaxial pulse propagation in a planar waveguide with Kerr-like and quintic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-27 K. Tamilselvan , T. Kanna , A. Govindarajan

We investigate analytically, numerically, and experimentally the modulational instability in a layered, cubically-nonlinear (Kerr) optical medium that consists of alternating layers of glass and air. We model this setting using a nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Centurion , Mason A. Porter , Ye Pu , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , Demetri Psaltis

We performed numerical simulations with the PLUTO code in order to analyze the non-linear behavior of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in non-magnetized relativistic fluids. The relevance of the instability at the cosmological QCD phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 V. R. C. Mourão Roque , G. Lugones

We explore the stability of the interface between two phase-separated Bose gases in relative motion on a lattice. Gross-Pitaevskii-Bogoliubov theory and the Gutzwiller ansatz are employed to study the short- and long-time stability…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-21 E. Lundh , J. -P. Martikainen

A new type of long-lived solitary structures for paraxial optics with two circular polarizations of light in a homogeneous defocusing Kerr medium with an anomalous group velocity dispersion has been revealed numerically in the coupled…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-31 Victor P. Ruban

The origin of the magnetic field in some systems like AGNs or GRBs is still an open question in astrophysics. A possible mechanism to explain the magnetic field generation is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, since it is able to transform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-30 Oscar M. Pimentel , F. D. Lora-Clavijo

We show that flows of pure electromagnetic energy are subject to instabilities familiar from hydrodynamics and plasma physics---Kelvin-Helmholtz and screw instabilities. In the framework of force-free electrodynamics, it is found that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Gruzinov