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The nonaxisymmetric Tayler instability of toroidal magnetic fields due to axial electric currents is studied for conducting incompressible fluids between two coaxial cylinders without endplates. The inner cylinder is considered as so thin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Ruediger , M. Schultz , M. Gellert

We reveal a nonlinear magnetic dynamo in a Taylor-Couette flow at small magnetic Prandtl numbers $Pm\leq 1$, which has been previously believed to exist only at higher $Pm\gtrsim 10$ in this flow. The amplitude of initial perturbations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 A. Mishra , G. Mamatsashvili , F. Stefani

We study the stability of a compressible differentially rotating flows in the presence of the magnetic field, and we show that the compressibility profoundly alters the previous results for a magnetized incompressible flow. The necessary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Bonanno , V. Urpin

It is still an open problem whether the inhibition phenomenon of Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability by horizontal magnetic field can be mathematically proved in a non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Youyi Zhao

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered to be one of the most powerful sources of turbulence in hydrodynamically stable quasi-Keplerian flows, such as those governing accretion disk flows. Although the linear stability of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-21 A. Guseva , R. Hollerbach , A. P. Willis , M. Avila

We investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solution (including the case of heavier density with increasing height) to the three-dimensional incompressible nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Weiwei Wang

Linear stability of inviscid, parallel, and stably stratified shear flow is studied under the assumption of smooth strictly monotonic profiles of shear flow and density, so that the local Richardson number is positive everywhere. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Makoto Hirota , Philip J. Morrison

We study the stability of the Couette-Taylor flow between porous cylinders with radial throughflow. It had been shown earlier that this flow can be unstable with respect to non-axisymmetric (azimuthal or helical) waves provided that the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-02 Konstantin Ilin , Andrey Morgulis

We study magnetic Taylor-Couette flow in a system having nondimensional radii $r_i=1$ and $r_o=2$, and periodic in the axial direction with wavelengths $h\ge100$. The rotation ratio of the inner and outer cylinders is adjusted to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-07 Rainer Hollerbach , Nigel Sibanda , Eun-jin Kim

In the paper we comment on (R\"udiger & Shalybkov, Phys. Rev. E. 69, 016303 (2004) (RS)), the instability of the Taylor--Couette flow interacting with a homogeneous background field subject to Hall effect is studied. We correct a falsely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Rheinhardt , U. Geppert

This study is concerned with numerical linear stability analysis of liquid metal flow in a square duct with thin electrically conducting walls subject to a uniform transverse magnetic field. We derive an asymptotic solution for the base…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-27 Jānis Priede , Thomas Arlt , Leo Bühler

In this short review, we present the main known features of MHD Turbulence at Low Magnetic Reynolds number, for which the flow isn't intense nor electrically conductive enough to disturb an externally applied magnetic field. The emphasis is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-16 Alban Pothérat

Taylor--Couette flow in the presence of a magnetic field is a problem belonging to classical hydromagnetics and deserves to be more widely studied than it has been to date. In the nonlinear regime the literature is scarce. We develop a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ashley P. Willis , Carlo F. Barenghi

We investigate the stabilizing effects of the magnetic fields in the linearized magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) problem of a nonhomogeneous incompressible viscous magnetohydrodynamic fluid of zero resistivity in the presence of a uniform…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

New condition Re>Re_th_min=124 of linear (exponential) instability of the Hagen-Poisseuille (HP) with respect to extremely small by magnitude axially-symmetric disturbances of the tangential component of the velocity field is obtained. For…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-22 S. G. Chefranov , A. G. Chefranov

It is shown that linear instability of plane Couette flow can take place even at finite Reynolds numbers which meets with known experimental data. This new result of the linear theory of hydrodynamic stability is obtained only due by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-06 Sergey G. Chefranov , Alexander G. Chefranov

Modal instabilities in a flow through a channel at high Reynolds and Mach numbers are studied for three-dimensional perturbations. In addition to the Tollmien-Schlichting modes, there exist higher modes in a channel flow that do not have a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-03 M. Deka , G. Tomar , V. Kumaran

The stability of shear flows of electrically conducting fluids, with respect to finite amplitude three-dimensional localized disturbances is considered. The time evolution of the fluid impulse integral, characterizing such disturbances, for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 V. Levinski , I. Rapoport , J. Cohen

It is demonstrated that the azimuthal magnetorotational instability (AMRI) also works with radially increasing rotation rates contrary to the standard magnetorotational instability for axial fields which requires negative shear. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-14 Guenther Rüdiger , Manfred Schultz , Marcus Gellert , Frank Stefani

We consider the effect of toroidal magnetic fields on hydrodynamically stable Taylor-Couette differential rotation flows. For current-free magnetic fields a nonaxisymmetric m=1 magnetorotational instability arises when the magnetic Reynolds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Ruediger , R. Hollerbach , M. Schultz , D. Elstner