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Current sheets (CSs), long stretching structures of magnetic reconnection above solar flare loops, are usually observed to oscillate, their origins, however, are still puzzled at present. Based on a high-resolution 2.5-dimensional MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Yulei Wang , Xin Cheng , Zining Ren , Mingde Ding

As part of our long-term campaign to understand how cold streams feed massive galaxies at high redshift, we study the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) of a supersonic, cold, dense gas stream as it penetrates through a hot, dilute…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Dan Padnos , Nir Mandelker , Yuval Birnboim , Avishai Dekel , Mark R. Krumholz , Elad Steinberg

In off-central heavy-ion collisions, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is exposed to the strongest magnetic fields ever created in the universe. Due to the paramagnetic nature of the QGP at high temperatures, the spatially inhomogeneous magnetic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Long-gang Pang , Gergely Endrődi , Hannah Petersen

A uniform in space, oscillatory in time plasma equilibrium sustained by a time-dependent current density is analytically and numerically studied resorting to particle-in-cell simulations. The dispersion relation is derived from the Vlasov…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Luis O. Silva

We present a theoretical framework for describing electromagnetic kinetic turbulence in a multi-species, magnetized, pressure-anisotropic plasma. Turbulent fluctuations are assumed to be small compared to the mean field, to be spatially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Matthew W. Kunz , Ian G. Abel , Kristopher G. Klein , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Magnetorotational Instability (MRI), the instability causing turbulent transport in accretion disks, is studied in the kinetic regime. Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows (RIAFs), like the one around the supermassive black hole in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Prateek Sharma

We present results from global, three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the solar wind/magnetosphere interaction. These MHD simulations are used to study ultra low frequency (ULF) pulsations in the Earth's magnetosphere…

Space Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 S. G. Claudepierre , S. R. Elkington , M. Wiltberger

This chapter reviews the recent progress made mainly during the last two decades on wave turbulence in magnetized plasmas (MHD, Hall MHD and electron MHD) in the incompressible and compressible cases. The emphasis is made on homogeneous and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Sebastien Galtier

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 present two generalized hybrid kinetic-Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) models describing the interaction of a two-fluid bulk plasma, which consists of thermal ions and electrons, with energetic, suprathermal ion populations described by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 D. A. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , P. J. Morrison

We study the effects of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) on the cold streams that feed high-redshift galaxies through their hot haloes, generalizing our earlier analyses of a 2D slab to a 3D cylinder, but still limiting our analysis to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Nir Mandelker , Daisuke Nagai , Han Aung , Avishai Dekel , Dan Padnos , Yuval Birnboim

The common feature of sheared flows of an ideal fluid and plasma in magnetic field is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. This instability is described by identical equations in mentioned two cases. The wave equation for the eigenmodes in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 A. Yu. Chirkov , V. I. Khvesyuk

With the support of hybrid-kinetic simulations and analytic theory, we describe the nonlinear behaviour of long-wavelength non-propagating (NP) modes and fast magnetosonic waves in high-$\beta$ collisionless plasmas, with particular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Stephen Majeski , Matthew W. Kunz , Jonathan Squire

Numerical simulations of dispersive turbulence in magnetized plasmas based on the Hall-MHD description are presented, assuming spatial variations along a unique direction making a prescribed angle with the ambient magnetic field. Main…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Laveder , L. Marradi , T. Passot , P. L. Sulem

We present a pioneering model of the interaction between the solar wind and the surrounding interstellar medium that includes the possibility of different pressures in directions parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. The outer…

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic buoyancy instability in rotating and non-rotating gas layers using numerical solutions of non-ideal, isothermal MHD equations. The unstable magnetic field is either imposed through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Yasin Qazi , Anvar Shukurov , Devika Tharakkal , Frederick A. Gent

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

Transversal oscillations of spicules axes may be related to the propagation of magnetohydrodynamic waves along them. These waves may become unstable and the instability can be of the Kelvin-Helmholtz type. We use the dispersion relation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Ajabshirizadeh , H. Ebadi , R. E. Vekalati , K. Molaverdikhani

We extend the classical two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) formalism to include quantum effects such as electron Fermi pressure, Bohm pressure and spin couplings. At scales smaller than the electron skin-depth, the Hall effect and electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Daniel O. Gomez , Alejandra Kandus

Over the last few years it became clear that turbulent magnetic reconnection and magnetized turbulence are inseparable. It was not only shown that reconnection is responsible for violating the frozen-in condition in turbulence, but also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves , Alex Lazarian , Ethan T. Vishniac