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The Kelvin-Hemholtz (K-H) instability in the corona EUV jet is studied via 2.5 MHD numerical simulations. The jet results from magnetic reconnection due to the interation of the new emerging magnetic field and the pre-existing magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Tianle Zhao , Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Udo Ziegler

The main aim of this submission is to investigate the effects of some parameters like wave number, shear velocity, magnetic field and temperature for the growth rate of the magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) with incessant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Huseyin Cavus , G. A. Hoshoudy

The intermittency of turbulent superfluid helium is explored systematically in a steady wake flow from 1.28 K up to T>2.18K using a local anemometer. This temperature range spans relative densities of superfluid from 96% down to 0%,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Eléonore Rusaouen , Benoît Chabaud , Julien Salort , Philippe-E Roche

Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability plays a significant role in transport and mixing properties of any medium. In this paper, we numerically explore this instability for a two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasma with rotational shear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Vikram Dharodi , Bhavesh Patel , Amita Das

We have found the precise stability region of the half quantum vortex (HQV) for superfluid $^3$He A phase confined in parallel plates with a narrow gap under rotation. Standard Ginzburg-Landau free energy, which is well established, is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Kawakami , Y. Tsutsumi , K. Machida

Non-thermal emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets extends up-to large scales in-spite of them being prone to a slew of magneto-hydrodynamic instabilities. The main focus of this study is to understand the impact of MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Nikhil Borse , Sriyasriti Acharya , Bhargav Vaidya , Dipanjan Mukherjee , Gianluigi Bodo , Paola Rossi , Andrea Mignone

Context. Global MHD simulations show Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instabilities at the contact surface of two merging neutron stars. That region has been identified as the site of efficient amplification of magnetic fields. However, these global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Obergaulinger , M. A. Aloy , E. Müller

In a rotating two-phase sample of 3He-B and magnetic-field stabilized 3He-A the large difference in mutual friction dissipation at 0.20 Tc gives rise to unusual vortex flow responses. We use noninvasive NMR techniques to monitor spin down…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-20 P. M. Walmsley , V. B. Eltsov , P. J. Heikkinen , J. J. Hosio , R. Hanninen , M. Krusius

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a basic physical process in fluids and magnetized plasmas, with applications successfully modelling e.g. exponentially growing instabilities observed at magnetospheric and heliospheric boundaries, in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Xiaohong Li , Jun Zhang , Shuhong Yang , Yijun Hou , Robert Erdelyi

We have measured the critical velocity v_c at which 3He-A in a rotating cylinder becomes unstable against the formation of quantized vortex lines with continuous (singularity-free) core structure. We find that v_c is distributed between a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 V. M. H. Ruutu , J. Kopu , M. Krusius , Ü. Parts , B. Placais , E. V. Thuneberg , W. Xu

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability of a shear layer with an initially-uniform magnetic field in the direction of flow is studied in the framework of 2D incompressible magnetohydrodynamics with finite resistivity and viscosity using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , J. M. Schroeder

In the highly structured solar corona, resonant absorption is an unavoidable mechanism of energy transfer from global transverse MHD waves to local azimuthal Alfv\'en waves. Due to its localised nature, a direct detection of this mechanism…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Patrick Antolin , Ineke De Moortel , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Takaaki Yokoyama

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

An analog of black hole can be realized in the low-temperature laboratory. The horizon can be constructed for the `relativistic' ripplons (surface waves) living on the brane. The brane is represented by the interface between two superfluid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. E. Volovik

New techniques, both for generating and detecting turbulence in the helium superfluids 3He-B and 4He, have recently given insight in how turbulence is started, what the dissipation mechanisms are, and how turbulence decays when it appears…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-23 V. B. Eltsov , R. de Graaf , R. Hanninen , M. Krusius , R. E. Solntsev , V. S. L'vov , A. I. Golov , P. M. Walmsley

We consider the regularity of an interface between two incompressible and inviscid fluids flows in the presence of surface tension. We obtain local in time estimates on the interface in $H^{\frac32k +1}$ and the velocity fields in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jalal Shatah , Chongchun Zeng

Stability of homogeneous precession of spin due to parametric excitation of spin waves is considered as the explanation of the "catastrophic relaxation", that is observed in the superfluid 3He-B. It is shown, that at sufficiently low…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Surovtsev , I. A. Fomin

We present models of turbulent mixing at the boundaries between hot (T~10^{6-7} K) and warm material (T~10^4 K) in the interstellar medium, using a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical code, with radiative cooling. The source of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Esquivel , R. A. Benjamin , A. Lazarian , J. Cho , S. N. Leitner

Superfluidity, liquid flow without friction, is familiar in helium. The first evidence for "supersolidity", its analogue in quantum solids, came from recent torsional oscillator (TO) measurements involving 4-He. At temperatures below 200…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 James Day , John Beamish

Stability of a half-quantum vortex (HQV) in superfluid $^3$He has been discussed recently by Kawakami, Tsutsumi and Machida in Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79}, 092506 (2009). We further extend this work here and consider the A$_2$ phase of superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenji Kondo , Tetsuo Ohmi , Mikio Nakahara , Takuto Kawakami , Yasumasa Tsutsumi , Kazushige Machida