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We present numerical simulations and explore scalings and anisotropy of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our study covers both gas pressure dominated (high beta) and magnetically dominated (low beta) plasmas at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

The modelling of astrophysical systems such as binary neutron star mergers or the formation of magnetars from the collapse of massive stars involves the numerical evolution of magnetised fluids at extremely large Reynolds numbers. This is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-20 Miquel Miravet-Tenés , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Martin Obergaulinger , José A. Font

This study investigates Parker instability in an interstellar medium (ISM) near the Galactic plane using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. Parker instability arises from the presence of a magnetic field in a plasma,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-06 Ying-Yi Lo , Chung-Ming Ko , Chih-Yueh Wang

We study a resistive tearing instability developing in a system evolving through the combined effect of Hall drift in the Electron-MHD limit and Ohmic dissipation. We explore first the exponential growth of the instability in the linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-19 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Rainer Hollerbach

Non-axisymmetric, flow-driven instabilities in the incompressible Hall-MHD model are studied in a differentially rotating cylindrical plasma. It is found that in the Hall-MHD regime, both whistler waves and ion-cyclotron waves can extract…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Alexandre Sainterme , Fatima Ebrahimi

We perform a linear analysis of the stability of a magnetized relativistic non-rotating cylindrical flow in the aproximation of zero thermal pressure, considering only the m = 1 mode. We find that there are two modes of instability:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Bodo , G. Mamatsashvili , P. Rossi , A. Mignone

Observations of galaxies and models of accreting systems point to the occurrence of counter-rotating discs where the inner part of the disc ($r<r_0$) is co-rotating and the outer part is counter-rotating. This work analyzes the linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Dan Quach , Sergei Dyda , Richard V. E. Lovelace

The plasmoid instability in evolving current sheets has been widely studied due to its effects on the disruption of current sheets, the formation of plasmoids, and the resultant fast magnetic reconnection. In this Letter, we study the role…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chuanfei Dong , Liang Wang , Yi-Min Huang , Luca Comisso , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Shock waves constitute discontinuities in matter which are relevant in studying the plasma behaviour in astrophysical scenarios and in heavy-ion collision. They can produce conical emission in relativistic collisions and are also thought to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-03 Ritam Mallick , Stefan Schramm

The Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) and tearing instabilities are likely to be important for the process of fast magnetic reconnection that is believed to explain the observed explosive energy release in solar flares. Theoretical studies of the…

We investigate effects of cosmic-rays on the linear growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Cosmic-rays are treated as an adiabatic gas and allowed to diffuse along magnetic field lines. We calculated the dispersion relation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Akihiro Suzuki , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Takahiro Kudoh

The Kelvin-Hemholtz (K-H) instability in the corona EUV jet is studied via 2.5 MHD numerical simulations. The jet results from magnetic reconnection due to the interation of the new emerging magnetic field and the pre-existing magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Tianle Zhao , Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Udo Ziegler

Aims. We investigated plasma turbulence in the context of solar wind. We concentrated on properties of ideal second-order magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD invariants. Methods. We studied the results of a two-dimensional hybrid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Petr Hellinger , Victor Montagud-Camps

Both global dynamics and turbulence in magnetized weakly collisional cosmic plasmas are described by general magnetofluid equations that contain pressure anisotropies and heat fluxes that must be calculated from microscopic plasma kinetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , F. Rincon , M. S. Rosin

Collisionless tearing instability with a power-law distribution function in a relativistic pair plasma with a guide field is studied. When the current sheet is supported by plasma pressure, the tearing mode is suppressed as the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Ivan Demidov , Yuri Lyubarsky

We carry out a linear stability analysis of a magnetized relativistic rotating cylindrical jet flow using the approximation of zero thermal pressure. We identify several modes of instability in the jet: Kelvin-Helmholtz, current driven and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Gianluigi Bodo , George Mamatsashvili , Paola Rossi , Andrea Mignone

Context. The magnetic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) has been proposed as a means of generating magnetohy- drodynamic turbulence and encouraging wave energy dissipation in the solar corona, particularly within transversely oscillating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Thomas Howson , Ineke De Moortel , David Pontin

In this paper, we solve a long-standing open problem: nonlinear stability of current-vortex sheet in the ideal incompressible Magneto-Hydrodynamics under the linear stability condition. This result gives a first rigorous confirmation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Yongzhong Sun , Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

Numerical simulations for the non-linear development of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in two different density layers have been performed with the particle-based method (Godunov SPH) developed by Inutsuka (2002). The Godunov SPH can describe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Seung-Hoon Cha , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Sergei Nayakshin

We present a full two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description for a completely ionized hydrogen plasma, retaining the effects of the Hall current, electron pressure and electron inertia. According to this description, each plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nahuel Andrés , Carlos Gonzalez , Luis Martin , Pablo Dmitruk , Daniel Gómez