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Magnetic buoyancy (MBI) and Parker instabilities are strong, generic instabilities expected to occur in most astrophysical systems with sufficiently strong magnetic fields. In galactic and accretion discs, large-scale magnetic fields are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-11 Yasin Qazi , Anvar. Shukurov , Frederick. A. Gent , Devika. Tharakkal , Abhijit. B. Bendre

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic buoyancy instability in rotating and non-rotating gas layers using numerical solutions of non-ideal, isothermal MHD equations. The unstable magnetic field is either imposed through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Yasin Qazi , Anvar Shukurov , Devika Tharakkal , Frederick A. Gent

We model the Parker instability in vertically stratified isothermal gas using non-ideal MHD three-dimensional simulations. Rotation, especially differential, more strongly and diversely affects the nonlinear state than the linear stage…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-08 Devika Tharakkal , Anvar Shukurov , Frederick A. Gent , Graeme R. Sarson , Andrew Snodin

The origin of large-scale and coherent magnetic fields in astrophysical discs is an important and long standing problem. Researchers commonly appeal to a turbulent dynamo, sustained by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI), to supply the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 A. Riols , H. Latter

Motivated by the problem of the formation of active regions from a deep-seated solar magnetic field, we consider the nonlinear three-dimensional evolution of magnetic buoyancy instabilities resulting from a smoothly stratified horizontal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evy Kersale , David W. Hughes , Steven M. Tobias

We study the linear properties, nonlinear saturation and a steady, strongly nonlinear state of the Parker instability in galaxies. We consider magnetic buoyancy and its consequences with and without cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are described…

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is considered to be a promising mechanism to amplify the magnetic field in fast rotating protoneutron stars. In contrast to accretion disks, radial buoyancy driven by entropy and lepton fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jerome Guilet , Ewald Mueller

We carried out global three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of dynamo activities in galactic gaseous disks without assuming equatorial symmetry. Numerical results indicate the growth of azimuthal magnetic fields non-symmetric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Mami Machida , Kenji E. Nakamura , Takahiro Kudoh , Takuya Akahori , Sofue Yoshiaki , Ryoji Matsumoto

The evolution of three-dimensional, large-scale, magnetic fields, in a galactic disk is investigated numerically. The N-body simulations of galactic dynamics are incorporated into the kinematic calculations of induction equations to study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , S. von Linden , H. Lesch , G. Skupniewicz

We examine the evolution of the Parker instability in galactic disks using 3D numerical simulations. We consider a local Cartesian box section of a galactic disk, where gas, magnetic fields and cosmic rays are all initially in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-24 Luiz Felippe S. Rodrigues , Graeme R. Sarson , Anvar Shukurov , Paul J. Bushby , Andrew Fletcher

The problem of the stability of magnetic fields in stars has a long history and has been investigated in detail in perturbation theory. Here we consider the nonlinear evolution of a non-rotating neutron star with a purely poloidal magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Riccardo Ciolfi , Samuel K. Lander , Gian Mario Manca , Luciano Rezzolla

The question of the origin and evolution of magnetic fields in stars possessing a radiative envelope, like the A-type stars, is still regarded as a challenge for stellar physics. Those zones are likely to be differentially rotating, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Laurène Jouve , Thomas Gastine , François Lignières

Parker instability leads to the formation of tangential discontinuities in a magnetic field and subsequent magnetic reconnection due to a numerical and/or an explicit resistivity. In this paper we investigate the role of the uniform,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Grzegorz Kowal , Michal Hanasz , Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur

The evolution of large-scale magnetic fields in disk galaxies is investigated numerically. The gasdynamical simulations in a disk perturbed by spiral or bar potential are incorporated into the kinematic calculations of induction equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Chiba

To power gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy events, large-scale magnetic fields are required to extract rotational energy from compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a key…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Alexis Reboul-Salze , Loren E. Held , Kenta Kiuchi

In this manuscript using the asymptotic method of multiscale nonlinear theory we construct a nonlinear theory of the appearance of large-scale structures in the stratified conductive medium with the presence of small-scale oscillations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

We present three-dimensional simulations of the dynamical bar-mode instability in magnetized and differentially rotating stars in full general relativity. Our focus is on the effects that magnetic fields have on the dynamics and the onset…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Luca Franci , Roberto De Pietri , Kyriaki Dionysopoulou , Luciano Rezzolla

We investigate the linear growth and vertical structure of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in weakly ionised, stratified accretion discs. The magnetic field is initially vertical and dust grains are assumed to have settled towards…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

Magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is an important instability mechanism for rotating flows with magnetic fields. In particular, when the strength of the magnetic field tends to zero, the stability criterion for rotating flows is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Zhiwu Lin , Yucong Wang , Wenpei Wu

We examine the nonlinear development of unstable magnetosonic waves driven by a background radiative flux -- the Radiation-Driven Magneto-Acoustic Instability (RMI, a.k.a. the "photon bubble" instability). The RMI may serve as a persistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rodrigo Fernández , Aristotle Socrates
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