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We investigate the conditions under which the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in a cylindrical magnetic flux tube moving along its axis become unstable against the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability. We \textbf{use} the dispersion relations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 I. Zhelyazkov , Z. Dimitrov

We investigate the effect of a current nonlinearity on the evolution of a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. We have implemented techniques from the field of nonlinear optics to provide new insights into the irregular dynamics…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 Mohammed F. Saleh , Patrik Öhberg

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability serves as a simple, well-defined setup for assessing the accuracy of different numerical methods for solving the equations of hydrodynamics. We use it to extend our previous analysis of the convergence and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Martin Obergaulinger , Miguel-Ángel Aloy

We analyse the analog of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on free suface of a superfluid liquid. This instability is induced by the relative motion of superfluid and normal components of the same liquid along the surface. The instability…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Korshunov

Context. Recent observations of solar prominences show the presence of turbulent flows that may be caused by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilites (KHI). However, the observed flow velocities are below the classical threshold for the onset of KHI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

At the interface between two fluid layers in relative motion, infinitesimal fluctuations can be exponentially amplified, inducing vorticity and the breakdown of the laminar flow. This process, known as the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, is…

The nonlinear evolution of two fluid interfacial structures like bubbles and spikes arising due to the combined action of Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability or due to that of Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 M. R. Gupta , Labakanta Mandal , Sourav Roy , Rahul Banerjee , Manoranjan Khan

We present a study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a weakly ionised, multifluid MHD plasma with parameters matching those of a typical molecular cloud. The instability is capable of transforming well-ordered flows into disordered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. C. Jones , T. P. Downes

We investigate the linear theory of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the interface between a partially ionized dusty outflow and the ambient material analytically. We model the interaction as a multifluid system in a planar geometry. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mohsen Shadmehri , Turlough P. Downes

We theoretically investigate the nonlinear effects in a hybrid quantum optomechanical system consisting of two optically coupled semiconductor microcavities containing a quantum dot and a Kerr nonlinear substrate.The steady state behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Sonam Mahajan , Aranya B Bhattacherjee

In this fluid dynamics video prepared for the APS-DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion we study the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability for both Newtonian and viscoelastic jets. The nonlinear dynamics of the jet motion are slowed down by orders of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-18 Bavand Keshavarz , Gareth McKinley

We report the observation of a parametric instability in the out-of-equilibrium steady state of two coupled Kerr microresonators coherently driven by a laser. Using a resonant excitation, we drive the system into an unstable regime, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 N. Carlon Zambon , S. R. K. Rodriguez , A. Lemaitre , A. Harouri , L. Le Gratiet , I. Sagnes , P. St-Jean , S. Ravets , A. Amo , J. Bloch

We investigate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of stratified jets. The internal component (core) is made of a relativistic gas moving with a relativistic bulk speed. The second component (sheath or envelope) flows between the core and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hanasz , H. Sol

The effect of optically thin radiative cooling on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of three dimensional jets is investigated via linear stability theory and nonlinear hydrodynamical simulation. Two different cooling functions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jianjun Xu , Philip Hardee , James Stone

The KelvinHelmholtz (KH) instability is a fundamental wave instability that is frequently observed in all kinds of shear layer (jets, wakes, atmospheric air currents etc). The study of KH-instability, coherent flow structures has a major…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-03-29 Santosh Tirunagari

We examine integrable turbulence (IT) in the framework of the defocusing cubic one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. This is done theoretically and experimentally, by realizing an optical fiber experiment in which the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-06-14 Stephane Randoux , Francois Gustave , Pierre Suret , Gennady El

In graphene, where the electron-electron scattering is dominant, electrons collectively act as a fluid. This hydrodynamic behaviour of charge carriers leads to exciting nonlinear phenomena such as solitary waves and shocks, among others. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Pedro Cosme , Hugo Terças

Self-gravitating gaseous filaments exist on many astrophysical scales, from sub-pc filaments in the interstellar medium to Mpc scale streams feeding galaxies from the cosmic web. These filaments are often subject to Kelvin-Helmotz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-21 Han Aung , Nir Mandelker , Daisuke Nagai , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim

We consider the stability of clouds surrounded by a hotter confining medium with respect to which they are in motion, against Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (KHI). In the presence of cooling, sound waves are damped by dissipation. Whenever…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Mario Vietri , Andrea Ferrara , Francesco Miniati

We examine a spatial evolution of lightwaves in a nonlinear photonic crystal with a quadratic nonlinearity when simultaneously a second harmonic and a sum-frequency generation are quasi-phase-matched. We find the conditions of a transition…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirill N. Alekseev , Aleksey V. Ponomarev