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Multiphase gas can be found in many astrophysical environments, such as galactic outflows, stellar wind bubbles, and the circumgalactic medium, where the interplay between turbulence, cooling, and viscosity can significantly influence gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

We investigate three kinds of instabilities in binary immiscible homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate, considering rubidium isotopes $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb confined in two-dimensional circular box. Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and Kelvin-Helmholtz…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-04 R. Kishor Kumar , S. Sabari , Arnaldo Gammal , Lauro Tomio

Recent numerical simulations have demonstrated that transverse coronal loop oscillations are susceptible to the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability due to the counter-streaming motions at the loop boundary. We present the first analytical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Mihai Barbulescu , Michael S. Ruderman , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Robert Erdelyi

We study theoretically nonlinear dynamics induced by shear-flow instability in segregated two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in terms of the Weber number, defined by extending the past theory on the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-18 Haruya Kokubo , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

We present a numerical investigation of three-dimensional, short-wavelength linear instabilities in Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) vortices in homogeneous and stratified environments. The base flow, generated using two-dimensional numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-28 H. M. Aravind , Manikandan Mathur , Thomas Dubos

A phase-field model for two-phase immiscible, incompressible porous media flow with surface tension effects is considered. The pore-scale model consists of a strongly coupled system of Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard equations. The fluids are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

We present a multiparticle collision dynamics (MPC) implementation of layered immiscible fluids $A$ and $B$ of different shear viscosities separated by planar interfaces. The simulated flow profile for imposed steady shear motion and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-07 Zihan Tan , Vania Calandrini , Jan K. G. Dhont , Gerhard Nägele , Roland G. Winkler

The pair of fluids, FC72- 1cSt silicone oil, exhibiting temperature-sensitive miscibility gap is considered in this study to investigate the classical Rayleigh-B\'enard-Marangoni (RBM) instability. The system of fluids is considered at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-15 Anubhav Dubey , Saumyakanta Mishra , S. V. Diwakar , Sakir Amiroudine

We extend the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability to an expanding background. We study the evolution of a non-viscous irrotational fluid and find that for wavelengths much smaller than the Hubble scale small perturbations of the fluid are unstable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Karim A. Malik , David R. Matravers

Boundary layers in space and astrophysical plasmas are the location of complex dynamics where different mechanisms coexist and compete eventually leading to plasma mixing. In this work, we present fully kinetic Particle-In-Cell simulations…

Recently, there has been a significant level of discussion of the correct treatment of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the astrophysical community. This discussion relies largely on how the KHI test is posed and analyzed. We pose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Colin P. McNally , Wladimir Lyra , Jean-Claude Passy

Recent observations show cool, oscillating prominence threads fading when observed in cool spectral lines and appearing in warm spectral lines. A proposed mechanism to explain this evolution is that the threads were heated by turbulence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew Hillier , Inigo Arregui

The onset of viscous fingering in the presence of a non monotonic viscosity profile is investigated theoretically for two immiscible fluids. Classical fluid dynamics predicts that no unstable behavior may be observed when a viscous fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-18 Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri

We investigate the linear instability of two-layer stratified shear flows in a sloping two-dimensional channel, subject to non-zero longitudinal gravitational forces. We reveal three previously unknown instabilities, distinct from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-20 Lu Zhu , Amir Atoufi , Adrien Lefauve , Rich R. Kerswell , P. F. Linden

We present a study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a weakly ionised, multifluid MHD plasma with parameters matching those of a typical molecular cloud. The instability is capable of transforming well-ordered flows into disordered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. C. Jones , T. P. Downes

Diffuse-interface theory provides a foundation for the modeling and simulation of microstructure evolution in a very wide range of materials, and for the tracking/capturing of dynamic interfaces between different materials on larger scales.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 Zhijie Xu , Paul Meakin , Alexandre Tartakovsky

Interface equations are derived for both binary diffusive and binary fluid systems subjected to non-equilibrium conditions, starting from the coarse-grained (mesoscopic) models. The equations are used to describe thermo-capillary motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Ravi Bhagavatula , David Jasnow , Takao Ohta

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

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

We present a phase-field model for the dynamics of the interface between two inmiscible fluids with arbitrary viscosity contrast in a rectangular Hele-Shaw cell. With asymptotic matching techniques we check the model to yield the right…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Folch , J. Casademunt , A. Hernandez-Machado , L. Ramirez-Piscina
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