English
Related papers

Related papers: Electron-scale Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in mag…

200 papers

A problem of the instability of an inhomogeneous axisymmetric plasma jet in a parallel magnetic field is solved. The jet boundary becomes, under certain conditions, unstable relative to magnetosonic oscillations (Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Anatoly S. Leonovich

In the present review article, we discuss the recent developments in studying the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves propagating in various solar magnetic structures. The main description is on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 I. Zhelyazkov

The electron-cyclotron maser instability (ECMI) is responsible for generation of the planetary auroral radio emissions. Most likely, the same mechanism produces radio bursts from ultracool dwarfs. We investigate amplification of plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Alexey A. Kuznetsov

The dynamical development of collective flow is studied in a (3+1)D fluid dynamical model, with globally symmetric, peripheral initial conditions, which take into account the shear flow caused by the forward motion on the projectile side…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-05-02 L. P. Csernai , D. D. Strottman , Cs. Anderlik

To comprehensively understand saturation of two-dimensional ($2$D) magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence, energy transfer analysis is extended from the traditional interaction between scales to include eigenmode…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 B. Tripathi , A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel , E. H. Anders

Switchbacks (SBs) are localized magnetic field deflections in the solar wind, marked by abrupt changes in the magnetic field direction relative to the ambient solar wind. Observations onboard Parker Solar Probe (PSP) at heliocentric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Kyung-Eun Choi , Oleksiy V. Agapitov , Nina Bizien , Thierry Dudok De Wit , Lucas Colomban

Using data obtained by the high resolution CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter instrument on the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, we investigate the dynamics and stability of quiet-Sun chromospheric jets observed at disk center. Small-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 D. Kuridze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan , A. Hanslmeier

We have investigated the development of current-driven (CD) kink instability through three-dimensional relativistic MHD simulations. A static force-free equilibrium helical magnetic configuration is considered in order to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 Yosuke Mizuno , Yuri Lyubarsky , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Philip E. Hardee

We reveal and investigate a new type of linear axisymmetric helical magnetorotational instability which is capable of destabilizing viscous and resistive rotational flows with radially increasing angular velocity, or positive shear. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 G. Mamatsashvili , F. Stefani , R. Hollerbach , G. Rüdiger

Stability properties of ``magnetic tower'' jets propagating in the gravitationally stratified background have been examined by performing three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The current-carrying, Poynting flux-dominated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masanori Nakamura , Hui Li , Shengtai Li

This work investigates the short wavelength stability of the magnetopause between a rapidly-rotating, supersonic, dense accretion disc and a slowly-rotating low-density magnetosphere of a magnetized star. The magnetopause is a strong shear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , W. I. Newman

This study presents three-dimensional (3D) resistive Hall-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) dynamics at Earth's magnetospheric flanks during northward interplanetary magnetic field periods. By…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Silvia Ferro , Matteo Faganello , Francesco Califano , Fabio Bacchini

In this work, we analyze the kinetic stability of a solar wind electron distribution composed of core and strahl subpopulations. The core is modeled by a drifting Maxwellian distribution, while the strahl is modeled by an analytic function…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Konstantinos Horaites , Patrick Astfalk , Stanislav Boldyrev , Frank Jenko

Analysis of the saturation of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability is undertaken to determine the extent to which the conjugate linearly stable mode plays a role. For a piecewise-continuous mean flow profile with constant shear in a fixed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 A. E. Fraser , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel , M. J. Pueschel

The theory of mean field electrodynamics for diffusive processes in Electron Magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) model is presented. In contrast to Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) the evolution of magnetic field here is governed by a nonlinear equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Amita Das , P. H. Diamond

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is well-known in classical hydrodynamics, where it explains the sudden emergence of interfacial surface waves as a function of the velocity of flow parallel to the interface. It can be carried over to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-13 V. B. Eltsov , A. Gordeev , M. Krusius

We have extended our study of the competition between the drive and stabilization of plasma microinstabilities by sheared flow to include electromagnetic effects at low plasma $\beta$ (the ratio of plasma to magnetic pressure). The extended…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. D. J. Cole , S. L. Newton , S. C. Cowley , N. F. Loureiro , D. Dickinson , C. Roach , J. W. Connor

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

We consider the stability of a configuration consisting of a vertical magnetic field in a planar flow on elliptical streamlines in ideal hydromagnetics. In the absence of a magnetic field the elliptical flow is universally unstable (the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norman R. Lebovitz , Ellen G. Zweibel

We present numerical simulations of electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) and electron reduced MHD (ERMHD) turbulence. Comparing scaling relations, we find that both EMHD and ERMHD turbulence show similar spectra and anisotropy. We develop…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-24 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian