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Within the traditional frame of reduced MHD, a new rigorous perturbation expansion provides the equation ruling the nonlinear growth and saturation of the tearing mode for any current gradient. The small parameter is the magnetic island…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Arcis , D. F. Escande , M. Ottaviani

Compressible turbulence, especially the magnetized version of it, traditionally has a bad reputation with researchers. However, recent progress in theoretical understanding of incompressible MHD as well as that in computational capabilities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

We study a one-dimensional fluid of hard-rods interacting each other via binary inelastic collisions and a short ranged square-well potential. Upon tuning the depth and the sign of the well, we investigate the interplay between dissipation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Umberto Marini-Bettolo-Marconi , Maurizio Natali , Giulio Costantini , Fabio Cecconi

We investigate the evolution of non-linear density perturbations by taking into account the effects of deviations from spherical symmetry of a system. Starting from the standard spherical top hat model in which these effects are ignored, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Engineer , Nissim Kanekar , T. Padmanabhan

\gamma-softness in atomic nuclei is investigated in the framework of energy density functionals. By mapping constrained microscopic energy surfaces for a set of representative non-axial medium-heavy and heavy nuclei to a Hamiltonian of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Nomura , N. Shimizu , D. Vretenar , T. Niksic , T. Otsuka

The process of current filamentation in permanently externally driven, initially globally ideal plasmas is investigated by means of two-dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)-simulations. This situation is typical for astrophysical systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Konz , H. Wiechen , H. Lesch

We study the linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, both in the Newtonian and the general-relativistic limit, as regards a viscous magnetized fluid of finite conductivity and discuss instability criteria. In addition, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Kleidis , A. Kuiroukidis , D. B. Papadopoulos , L. Vlahos

The deformation and rupture of a lipid vesicle due to the forced normal approach of an inclusion are essential for optimizing the design of magnetic giant unilamellar vesicles [magGUVs, Malik et al., Nanoscale 17, 13720 (2025)], with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-16 Yuan-Nan Young , Bryan Quaife , Herve Nganguia , On Shun Pak , Jie Feng , Howard A. Stone

The physical modeling of the accretion disk boundary layer, the region where the disk meets the surface of the accreting star, usually relies on the assumption that angular momentum transport is opposite to the radial angular frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-28 Chi-kwan Chan , Martin E. Pessah

The modulational instability (MI) and the evolution of weakly nonlinear two-dimensional (2D) Langmuir wave (LW) packets are studied in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma with weakly relativistic electron flow. By using a 2D…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 M. Shahmansouri , A. P. Misra

In weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas, such as the intracluster medium of galaxy clusters, the amplification of cosmic magnetic fields by chaotic fluid motions is hampered by the adiabatic production of magnetic-field-aligned pressure…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Denis A. St-Onge

Convection is one of the most important mixing processes in stellar interiors. Hydrodynamic mass entrainment can bring fresh fuel from neighboring stable layers into a convection zone, modifying the structure and evolution of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 G. Leidi , R. Andrassy , J. Higl , P. V. F. Edelmann , F. K. Röpke

Plasma accelerators can sustain very high acceleration gradients. They are promising candidates for future generations of particle accelerators for several scientific, medical and technological applications. Current plasma based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 J. Vieira , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

Spherical tokamaks (STs) have been shown to possess properties desirable for a fusion power plant such as achieving high plasma ? and having increased vertical stability. To understand the confinement properties that might be expected in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 B. S. Patel , D. Dickinson , C. M. Roach , H. R. Wilson

The phenomenon of redistribution of neutral beam fast-ions due to MHD activity in plasma has been observed on many tokamaks and more recently has been a focus of research on MAST (Turnyanskiy M. et al, 2011 Nucl. Fusion 53 053016). n=1…

The results of kinetic simulations of magnetic reconnection in Harris current sheets are analyzed. A range of guide fields is considered to study reconnection in plasmas characterized by different $\beta$ values, $\beta > m_e/m_i$. Both an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-28 P. Ricci , J. U. Brackbill , W. Daughton , G. Lapenta

We investigate the phase behaviour of a system of particles interacting through the exp-6 pair potential, a model interaction that is appropriate to describe effective interatomic forces under high compression. The soft-repulsive component…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-28 Franz Saija , Gianpietro Malescio , Santi Prestipino

This paper is devoted to the analysis of a singular perturbation problem for a $2$-D incompressible MHD system with density variations and Coriolis force, in the limit of small Rossby numbers. Two regimes are considered. The first one is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Dimitri Cobb , Francesco Fanelli

The ideal Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are challenging because one needs to maintain the divergence free condition, $\nabla \cdot \Bv = 0$. Many numerical methods have been developed to enforce this condition. In this work, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Firat Cakir , Andrew Christlieb , Yan Jiang

The dynamics of suspended two-dimensional (2D) materials has received increasing attention during the last decade, yielding new techniques to study and interpret the physics that governs the motion of atomically thin layers. This has led to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Peter G. Steeneken , Robin J. Dolleman , Dejan Davidovikj , Farbod Alijani , Herre S. J. van der Zant
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