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Formation and rupture of vesicles is a fundamental process underlying diverse phenomena in biology, materials science, and biomedical applications. Vesicles form when the area of a growing disk-like membrane exceeds a critical value at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-11 Seungwoo Shin , Federico Cao , Robert A. Pelcovits , Thomas R. Powers , Zvonimir Dogic

The possibility that the magnetic shear-flow instability (MRI, Balbus-Hawley instability) might give rise to turbulence in a cylindric Couette flow is investigated through numerical simulations. The study is linear and the fluid flow is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Rüdiger , Y. Zhang

We study the motion of vortex filaments in chiral media, and find a semi-classical analog of the anomaly-induced chiral magnetic effect. The helical solitonic excitations on vortices in a parity-breaking medium are found to carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-10 Yuji Hirono , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Andrey V. Sadofyev

The linear normal-mode stratorotational instability (SRI) is analytically reexamined in the inviscid limit where the length scales of horizontal disturbances are large compared their vertical and radial counterparts. Boundary conditions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. M. Umurhan

Using complementary numerical approaches at high resolution, we study the late-time behaviour of an inviscid, incompressible two-dimensional flow on the surface of a sphere. Starting from a random initial vorticity field comprised of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-08 David G. Dritschel , Wanming Qi , J. B. Marston

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) occurs when a shock wave passes through an interface between fluids of different densities, a phenomenon prevalent in a variety of scenarios including supersonic combustion, supernovae, and inertial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-15 Usman Rana , Thomas Abadie , David Chapman , Nathan Joiner , Omar Matar

A high resolution fourth-order Pad\'e scheme is used to simulate locally isothermal 3D disk turbulence driven by the vertical shear instability (VSI) using 268.4 M points. In the early non-linear period of axisymmetric VSI, angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Karim Shariff , Orkan M. Umurhan

In the vicinity of their glass transition, dense colloidal suspensions acquire elastic properties over experimental timescales. We investigate the possibility of a visco-elastic flow instability in curved geometry for such materials. To…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-21 Alexandre Nicolas , Matthias Fuchs

We compute, in the framework of the fluid/gravity correspondence, the transport coefficients of a relativistic fluid affected by chiral and gauge-gravitational anomalies, including external electromagnetic fields. The computation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Eugenio Megias , Francisco Pena-Benitez

Propagating chiral magnetic waves (CMW) are expected to exist in chiral plasmas due to the interplay between the chiral magnetic and chiral separation effects induced by the presence of a chiral anomaly. Unfortunately, it was pointed out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Yongjun Ahn , Matteo Baggioli , Yan Liu , Xin-Meng Wu

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

The presence of asymmetry between fermions of opposite handedness in plasmas of relativistic particles can lead to exponential growth of a helical magnetic field via a small-scale chiral dynamo instability known as the chiral magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Axel Brandenburg , Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Tina Kahniashvili , Alexey Boyarsky , Jurg Frohlich , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Nathan Kleeorin

Stability analysis of two-fluid protoplanetary disc models has enriched our understanding of how solids can grow into larger bodies called planetesimals. Dust particles entrained in a gas stream modify the flow, creating shear layers prone…

In the standard model of particle physics, the chiral anomaly can occur in relativistic plasmas and plays a role in the early Universe, protoneutron stars, heavy-ion collisions, and quantum materials. It gives rise to a magnetic instability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Axel Brandenburg

This paper investigates the non-linear dynamics of horizontal shear instability in an incompressible, stratified and rotating fluid in the non-traditional $f$-plane, i.e. with the full Coriolis acceleration, using direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Camille Moisset , Paul Billant , Junho Park , Stéphane Mathis

A spherical hydrodynamical expansion flow can be described as the gradient of a potential. In that case no vorticity should be produced, but several additional mechanisms can drive its production. Here we analyze the effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-14 Fabio Del Sordo , Axel Brandenburg

As a consequence of the chiral anomaly, the hydrodynamics of hot QCD matter coupled to QED allows for a long-wavelength mode of chiral charge density, the chiral magnetic wave (CMW), that provides for a mechanism of electric charge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Seyed Farid Taghavi , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We have recently shown that spiral density waves propagating in accretion disks can undergo a parametric instability by resonantly coupling with and transferring energy into pairs of inertial waves (or inertial-gravity waves when buoyancy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Jaehan Bae , Richard P. Nelson , Lee Hartmann

We consider the STU model as a gravity dual of a strongly-coupled plasma with multiple anomalous U(1) currents. In the bulk we add additional background gauge fields to include the effects of external electric and magnetic fields on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-21 Tigran Kalaydzhyan , Ingo Kirsch

We investigate density fluctuations in three-dimensional chiral active fluids by using a simple model of helical self-propelled particles. Helical motion is generated by a constant angular velocity (or chiral torque) acting on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-29 Yuta Kuroda , Takeshi Kawasaki , Kunimasa Miyazaki