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A plane turbulent mixing in a shear flow of an ideal homogeneous fluid confined between two relatively close rigid walls is considered. The character of the flow is determined by interaction of vortices arising at the nonlinear stage of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Alexander Chesnokov , Valery Liapidevskii

We analyze the linear stability of monoclinal traveling waves on a constant incline, which connect uniform flowing regions of differing depths. The classical shallow-water equations are employed, subject to a general resistive drag term.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jake Langham , Andrew J. Hogg

The isothermal spatio-temporal evolution of an interface between binary fluids, with temperature sensitive miscibility gap, subjected to shear flow is investigated using direct numerical simulations. The thermophysical properties and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Anubhav Dubey , Sakir Amiroudine

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…

The generalized Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) and Miles mechanisms of the water wave generation by wind are investigated for two-layer piece-wise linear model of the wind profile. It is shown by asymptotic expansions in small air-to-water density…

We investigate the linear stability of a sinusoidal shear flow with an initially uniform streamwise magnetic field in the framework of incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with finite resistivity and viscosity. This flow is known to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Adrian E. Fraser , Imogen G. Cresswell , Pascale Garaud

Ocean submesoscales, flows with characteristic size around 10 m - 10 km, are transitional between the larger, rotationally-constrained mesoscale and three-dimensional turbulence. In this paper we present simulations of a submesoscale ocean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Erin Atkinson , James McWilliams , Nicolas Grisouard

In this paper, the physics of flow instability and turbulent transition in shear flows is studied by analyzing the energy variation of fluid particles under the interaction of base flow with a disturbance. For the first time, a model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-20 Hua-Shu Dou

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

Studies have shown that in sheared $\mathbf{E}\times\mathbf{B}$ flows in an inhomogeneous ionospheric plasma, the gradient drift (GDI) or the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KHI) instability may grow. This work examines the conditions that cause one of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 C. Rathod , B. Srinivasan , W. Scales

Most idealized studies of stratified shear instabilities assume that the shear interface and the buoyancy interface are coincident. We discuss the role of asymmetry on the evolution of shear instabilities. Using linear stability theory and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-09 Jason Olsthoorn , Alexis K. Kaminski , Daniel M. Robb

A mathematical model describing motion of an inhomogeneous incompressible fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell is considered. Linear stability analysis of shear flow class is provided. The role of inertia, linear friction and impermeable boundaries in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-28 Alexander Chesnokov , Irina Stepanova

In the present paper, we study the evolutionary conditions for Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability in a high-temperature solar surge observed in NOAA AR11271 using the Solar Dynamics Observatory data on 2011 August 25. We study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 I. Zhelyazkov , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava , T. Mishonov

We study the linear stability of a planar interface separating two fluids in relative motion, focusing on the symmetric configuration where the two fluids have the same properties (density, temperature, magnetic field strength, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-07 Anthony Chow , Michael E. Rowan , Lorenzo Sironi , Jordy Davelaar , Gianluigi Bodo , Ramesh Narayan

We investigate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability occuring at the interface of a shear flow configuration in 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The linear growth and the subsequent non-linear saturation of the instability are studied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Keppens , G. Toth , R. H. J. Westermann , J. P. Goedbloed

We simulate the flow of two immiscible and incompressible fluids separated by an interface in a homogeneous turbulent shear flow at a shear Reynolds number equal to 15200. The viscosity and density of the two fluids are equal, and various…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-15 Marco E. Rosti , Zhouyang Ge , Suhas S. Jain , Michael S. Dodd , Luca Brandt

Using a new numerical code we have carried out two-dimensional simulations of the nonlinear evolution of unstable sheared magnetohydrodynamic flows. We considered two cases: a strong magnetic field (Alfven Mach number, M_a = 2.5) and a weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Adam Frank , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , Joseph B. Gaalaas

We investigate the perturbation dynamics in a supersonic shear layer using a combination of large-eddy simulations (LES) and linear-operator-based input-output analysis. The flow consists of two streams-a main stream (Mach 1.23) and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-26 Mitesh Thakor , Yiyang Sun , Datta V. Gaitonde

Linear stability analysis of strongly coupled incompressible dusty plasma in presence of shear flow has been carried out using Generalized Hydrodynamical(GH) model. With the proper Galilean invariant GH model, a nonlocal eigenvalue analysis…

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

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