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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 study theoretically the stability of flow in superfluid 3He-A. The calculations are done using a one-dimensional model where the order parameter depends only on the coordinate in the direction of the superfluid velocity v_s. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Kopu , R. Hänninen , E. V. Thuneberg

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability is studied in a non-Newtonian dusty plasma with an experimentally verified model [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 98}, 145003 (2007)] of shear flow rate dependent viscosity. The shear flow profile used here is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Banerjee , S. Garai , M. S. Janaki , N. Chakrabarti

Recent observations support the propagation of a number of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes which, under some conditions, can become unstable and the developing instability is the Kelvin--Helmholtz instability (KHI). In its nonlinear stage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 Ivan Zhelyazkov , Ramesh Chandra , Reetika Joshi

In superfluid 3He-B mutual-friction damping of vortex-line motion decreases roughly exponentially with temperature. We record as a function of temperature and pressure the transition from regular vortex motion at high temperatures to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-05 A. P. Finne , S. Boldarev , V. B. Eltsov , M. Krusius

Massive galaxies at high redshift are predicted to be fed from the cosmic web by narrow, dense, cold streams. These streams penetrate supersonically through the hot medium encompassed by a stable shock near the virial radius of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-20 Nir Mandelker , Dan Padnos , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim , Andreas Burkert , Mark R. Krumholz , Elad Steinberg

We use multiwavelength imaging observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to study the evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) instability in a fan-spine magnetic field configuration.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Sudheer K. Mishra , Balveer Singh , A. K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , B. N. Dwivedi

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability occurs in multiple heliospheric (solar-wind stream interfaces, planetary magnetospheres, cometary tails, heliopause flanks) and interstellar (protoplanetary disks, relativistic jets, neutron star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Shishir Biswas , Masaru Nakanotani , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Vladimir Florinski , Merav Opher

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is a ubiquitous physical process in ordinary fluids and plasmas, frequently observed also in space environments. In this paper, kinetic effects at proton scales in the nonlinear and turbulent stage of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 A. Settino , F. Malara , O. Pezzi , M. Onofri , D. Perrone , F. Valentini

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) can occur when there is a relative motion between two adjacent fluids. In the case of magnetized plasma, the shear velocity must exceed the local Alfv\'{e}n speed for the instability to develop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Leon Ofman , Olga Khabarova , Ryun-Yong Kwon , Yogesh , Eyal Heifetz , Katariina Nykyri

We report a wavelike fracture pattern in a Zr-based bulk metallic glass that has been deformed under quasi-static uniaxial tensions at temperatures between room temperature (300 K) and liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K). We attribute this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-02-24 M. Q. Jiang , G. Wilde , C. B. Qu , F. Jiang , H. M. Xiao , J. H. Chen , S. Y. Fu , L. H. Dai

Instabilities in rotating detonation are concerned because of their potential influence on the stability of operation. Previous studies on instability of 2-D rotating detonation mainly cared about the one of the contact discontinuity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-17 Qin Li , Pengxin Liu , Hanxin Zhang

The experimental investigation of superfluid turbulence in 3He-B is generally not possible with the techniques which have been developed for 4He-II. We describe a new method by which a transient burst of turbulent vortex expansion can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. P. Finne , S. Boldarev , V. B. Eltsov , M. Krusius

Magnetohydrodynamic kink waves naturally form as a consequence of perturbations to a structured medium, for example transverse oscillations of coronal loops. Linear theory has provided many insights in the evolution of linear oscillations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Andrew Hillier , Iñigo Arregui , Takeshi Matsumoto

The flow of quantized vortex lines in superfluid 3He-B is laminar at high temperatures, but below 0.6 Tc turbulence becomes possible, owing to the rapidly decreasing mutual friction damping. In the turbulent regime a vortex evolving in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-23 R. Hanninen , V. B. Eltsov , A. P. Finne , R. de Graaf , J. Kopu , M. Krusius , R. E. Solntsev

We study here the arising of Kelvin--Helmholtz Instability (KHI) in one fast jet of 2014 April 16 observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in different UV and EUV wavelengths. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 M. Bogdanova , I. Zhelyazkov , R. Joshi , R. Chandra

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability has been proposed as a mechanism to extract energy from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) kink waves in flux tubes, and to drive dissipation of this wave energy through turbulence. It is therefore a potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Andrew Hillier , Adrian Barker , Iñigo Arregui , Henrik Latter

Context: In the context of the solar coronal heating problem, one possible explanation for the high coronal temperature is the release of energy by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. The energy transfer is believed to be possible, among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Michaël Geeraerts , Tom Van Doorsselaere

Transport coefficients in highly ionised plasmas like the intra-cluster medium (ICM) are still ill-constrained. They influence various processes, among them the mixing at shear flow interfaces due to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 E. Roediger , R. P. Kraft , P. Nulsen , E. Churazov , W. Forman , M. Brueggen , R. Kokotanekova

We investigate the effects of viscosity and heat conduction on the onset and growth of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) via an efficient discrete Boltzmann model. Technically, two effective approaches are presented to quantitatively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-02 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Chuandong Lin , Huilin Lai , Zhipeng Liu