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We consider rotating superfluid pionic liquid, with superfluidity being induced by isospin chemical potential. The rotation is known to result in a chiral current flowing along the axis of the rotation. We argue that in case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 V. P. Kirilin , A. V. Sadofyev , V. I. Zakharov

(abridged) Aims: We present new results exhibiting a subcritical baroclinic instability (SBI) in local shearing box models. We describe the 2D and 3D behaviour of this instability using numerical simulations and we present a simple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Lesur , J. C. B. Papaloizou

Pulsating flows through tubular geometries are laminar provided that velocities are moderate. This in particular is also believed to apply to cardiovascular flows where inertial forces are typically too low to sustain turbulence. On the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-26 Duo Xu , Atul Varshney , Xingyu Ma , Baofang Song , Michael Riedl , Marc Avila , Björn Hof

Many biological systems, such as bacterial suspensions and actomyosin networks, form polar liquid crystals. These systems are `active' or far-from-equilibrium, due to local forcing of the solvent by the constituent particles. In many cases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-02 Tomer Markovich , Elsen Tjhung , Michael E. Cates

Shear flows have an important impact on the dynamics in an assortment of different astrophysical objects including accreditation discs and stellar interiors. Investigating shear flow instabilities in a polytropic atmosphere provides a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 V. Witzke , L. J. Silvers , B. Favier

The scope of the present paper is to determine how ion electrostatic wave perturbations in plasma flows are influenced by the presence of a kinematically complex velocity shear. For this purpose we consider a model based on the following…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-17 Z. Osmanov , A. Rogava , S. Poedts

Active Stokesian suspensions are conventionally understood to generate dipolar stresses that destabilize aligned states in the bulk and drive system-wide spatiotemporally chaotic flows. Here, we report dynamics in suspensions of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-26 Seema Chahal , Brato Chakrabarti

Wavy pattern of ice with a specific wavelength occurs during ice growth from a thin layer of undercooled water flowing down the surface of icicles or inclined plane. In the preceding paper [K. Ueno, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 68}, 021603 (2003)], we…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ueno

Hydrodynamical instabilities in disks around young stars depend on the thermodynamic stratification of the disk and on the local rate of thermal relaxation. Here, we map the spatial extent of unstable regions for the Vertical Shear…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Thomas Pfeil , Hubert Klahr

We discuss a possible dependence of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) on the elliptic flow coefficient v2. We first study this in a hydrodynamic model for a static anisotropic plasma with multiple anomalous U(1) currents. In the case of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Ilmar Gahramanov , Tigran Kalaydzhyan , Ingo Kirsch

The helical magnetorotational instability is known to work for resistive rotational flows with comparably steep negative or extremely steep positive shear. The corresponding lower and upper Liu limits of the shear are continuously connected…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 George Mamatsashvili , Frank Stefani

An analytical theory is presented for linear, local, short-wavelength instabilities in swirling flows, in which axial shear, differential rotation, radial thermal stratification, viscosity, and thermal diffusivity are all taken into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-10 Oleg N. Kirillov , Innocent Mutabazi

We study collective excitations in rotating chiral media in presence of magnetic field both in hydrodynamic framework and in kinetic theory. We find that the velocity of the mixed Chiral Magnetic-Vortical Wave is a vector sum of velocities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-31 David Frenklakh

In an electron-positron plasma, an imbalance in the number of right- and left-chiral particles can lead to the growth of a helical magnetic field through a phenomenon called the chiral plasma instability (CPI). In the early universe,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Murman Gurgenidze , Andrew J. Long , Alberto Roper Pol , Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili

We perform a linear stability analysis of extended domains in phase-separating fluids of equal viscosity, in two dimensions. Using the coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Stokes equations, we derive analytically the stability eigenvalues for long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Amalie Frischknecht

Turbulent flows of incompressible liquid in two dimensions are comprised of dense systems of vortices. Such system of vortices can be treated as a fluid and itself could be described in terms of hydrodynamics. We develop the hydrodynamics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-11 Paul Wiegmann , Alexander G. Abanov

The main objective of this article is to derive a mathematical theory associated with the nonlinear stability and dynamic transitions of the basic shear flows associated with baroclinic instability, which plays a fundamental role in the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Ming Cai , Marco Hernandez , KiahWah Ong , Shouhong Wang

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is widely spread in nature on scales from micrometer up to Galactic one. This instability refers to the growth of perturbation of an interface between two parallel streams of Newtonian fluids with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Narsing K. Jha , Victor Steinberg

The chiral plasma instability (CPI) has been invoked as a possible mechanism for generating primordial magnetic fields in the universe and ultrastrong fields in neutron stars. We investigate chiral dynamos where the chirality imbalance is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Valentin A. Skoutnev , Andrei M. Beloborodov

We study the turbulent regime of chiral (magneto)hydrodynamics for charged and neutral matter with chirality imbalance. We find that the chiral magnetohydrodynamics for charged plasmas possesses a unique scaling symmetry, only without fluid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-17 Naoki Yamamoto