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We study linear theory of the magnetized Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a system consisting of ions and neutrals. Both components are affected by a uniform vertical gravitational field. We consider ions and neutrals as two separate fluid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Mohsen Shadmehri , Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Mahdi Khajavi

We study the modification of the classical criterion for the linear onset and growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in a partially ionized (PI) plasma in the one-fluid description, considering a generalized induction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. J. Diaz , E. Khomenko , M. Collados

Electrostatic Gravitational or Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in an inhomogeneous magnetized multi-ions plasma with some fraction of quantum mechanical electrons. The effect of Bohm potential, temperature degeneracy and magnetic field are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 A. Mushtaq , Sajad Ali , Zahida Ehsan

Rayleigh-Taylor and Buoyancy-driven instabilities are very common instabilities for an inhomogeneous medium. We examine here how these instabilities grow for incompressible viscoelastic fluids like a strongly coupled dusty plasma by using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Vikram S. Dharodi , Amita Das

(Shortened) Thermal instability of partially ionized plasma is investigated by linear perturbation analysis. According to the previous studies under the one fluid approach, the thermal instability is suppressed due to the magnetic pressure.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Tsubasa Fukue , Hideyuki Kamaya

We investigate the linear evolution of Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability in the framework of an ideal two-fluid plasma model. The two-fluid plasma equations of motion are separated into a base state and a set of linearized equations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Yuan Li , Abeer Bakhsh , Ravi Samtaney

We present time-resolved observations of Rayleigh--Taylor-instability (RTI) evolution at the interface between an unmagnetized plasma jet colliding with a stagnated, magnetized plasma. The observed instability growth time ($\sim 10$~$\mu$s)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Colin S. Adams , Auna L. Moser , Scott C. Hsu

This present study deals with the dissipative instability that appears in a compressible partially ionised plasma slab embedded in a uniform magnetic field, modelling the state of the plasma in solar prominences. In the partially ionised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 J. F. Mather , I. Ballai , R. Erdelyi

We study the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) of electrostatic plane wave perturbations in compressible relativistic magnetoplasma fluids with thermal ions under gravity in three different cases of when (i) electrons are in isothermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 R. Dey , A. P. Misra

We carry out three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the magnetorotational (Balbus-Hawley) instability in weakly-ionized plasmas. We adopt a formulation in which the ions and neutrals each are treated as separate fluids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 John F. Hawley , James M. Stone

Aims. We aim to determine how ion neutral coupling and ambipolar diffusion affect the linear and the nonlinear growth of the RTinstability under astrophysically relevant conditions, and to identify the coupling regimes in which departures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-12 E. Callies , Z. Meliani , A. Marcowith , V. Guillet

We investigate the nature of dissipative instability appearing in a prominence planar thread filled with partially ionised plasma in the incompressible limit. The importance of partial ionisation is investigated in terms of the ionisation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 I. Ballai , B. Pinter , R. Oliver , M. Alexandrou

This paper investigates the suppression of two stream instabilities in electron ion plasmas when the individual species attain relativistic velocities. This suppression of the growth rate of two stream instability is consistent even when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Vivek Shrivastav , Mani K Chettri , Hemam D Singh , Rupak Mukherjee

The instability of a monoenergetic electron beam in a collisional one-dimensional plasma bounded between grounded walls is considered both analytically and numerically. Collisions between electrons and neutrals are accounted for the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Dmytro Sydorenko , Igor D. Kaganovich , Peter L. G. Vetzek

Solar prominences are formed by partially ionized plasma with inter-particle collision frequencies generally warranting magnetohydrodynamic treatment. In this work, we explore the dynamical impacts and observable signatures of two-fluid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko , A. de Vicente

We study the linear stability of weakly magnetized differentially rotating plasmas in both collisionless kinetic theory and Braginskii's theory of collisional, magnetized plasmas. We focus on the very weakly magnetized limit that is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Eliot Quataert , Tobias Heinemann , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We present a linear analysis of the radiative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in the presence of magnetic field for both optically thin and thick regimes. When the flow is optically thin, magnetic field not only stabilizes perturbations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Asiyeh Yaghoobi , Mohsen Shadmehri

In this paper, we investigate the Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid flows rotating with an constant angular velocity, and evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Ran Duan , Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

The two-fluid (ions and electrons) plasma Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of a cylindrical light/heavy density interface is numerically investigated without an initial magnetic field. Varying the Debye length scale, we examine the effects of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Y. Li , R. Samtaney , D. Bond , V. Wheatley

Fluid instabilities like Rayleigh-Taylor,Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability can occur in a wide range of physical phenomenon from astrophysical context to Inertial Confinement Fusion(ICF).Using Layzer's potential flow model,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Manoranjan Khan , Labakanta Mandal , Rahul Banerjee , Sourav Roy , M. R. Gupta
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