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In this paper, we analyze the linear stability of a stellar accretion disk, having a stratified morphology. The study is performed in the framework of ideal magneto-hydrodynamics and therefore it results in a characterization of the linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Montani , D. Pugliese

We consider the nonaxisymmetric modes of instability present in Taylor-Couette flow under the application of helical magnetic fields, mainly for magnetic Prandtl numbers close to the inductionless limit, and conduct a full examination of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Adam Child , Evy Kersalé , Rainer Hollerbach

We perform a local stability analysis of rotational flows in the presence of a constant vertical magnetic field and an azimuthal magnetic field with a general radial dependence. Employing the short-wavelength approximation we develop a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-14 Oleg N. Kirillov , Frank Stefani , Yasuhide Fukumoto

Physical experiments and numerical simulations have revealed a remarkable stabilizing phenomenon: a background magnetic field stabilizes and dampens electrically conducting fluids. This paper provides a rigorous mathematical justification…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Qunyi Bie , Hui Fang , Yanping Zhou

The linear stability of electrically driven flow of liquid metal in circular channel in the presence of vertical magnetic field is studied. It is shown that the instability threshold of such flow is determined by magnetorotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-20 I. V. Khalzov , A. I. Smolyakov , V. I. Ilgisonis

In this article, we study the axisymmetric surface diffusion flow (ASD), a fourth-order geometric evolution law. In particular, we prove that ASD generates a real analytic semiflow in the space of (2 + \alpha)-little-H\"older regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-22 Jeremy LeCrone , Gieri Simonett

The stability of a dilute plasma to local convective and rotational disturbances is examined. A subthermal magnetic field and finite thermal conductivity along the field lines are included in the analysis. Stability criteria similar in form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Steven A. Balbus

We analyze the stability of a thin plasma disk which is rotating around a compact astrophysical object and is embedded in the strong magnetic field of such a source. The aim of this study is the determination of a new type of unstable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Benini , Nakia Carlevaro , Alessio Franco

This review summarizes recent advances in the theoretical analysis of the stability of magnetized flows in a non-uniformly rotating layer of electrically conductive nanofluid, incorporating the effects of Brownian diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 M. I. Kopp , V. V. Yanovsky

We outline a novel linear instability that may arise in the dead-zones of protostellar disks, and possibly the fluid interiors of planets and protoplanets. In essence it is an axisymmetric buoyancy instability, but one that would not be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Henrik N. Latter , Julius F. Bonart , Steven A. Balbus

In this paper we studied the weakly nonlinear stage of stationary convective instability in a nonuniformly rotating layer of an electrically conductive fluid in an axial uniform magnetic field under the influence of: a) temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

Purely gravitational perturbations are considered in a thin rotating disk composed of several gas and stellar components. The dispersion relation for the axisymmetric density waves propagating through the disk is found and the criterion for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman R. Rafikov

In two previous publications$^{1,2}$, we have demonstrated that stationary rotation of magnetized plasma about a compact central object permits an enormous number of different MHD instabilities, with the well-known magneto-rotational…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans Goedbloed , Rony Keppens

We establish criteria of stability and instability for the stratified compressible magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem. More precisely, if under the stability condition $\Xi <1$, we show the existence of unique solution with algebraic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

Cool weakly ionized gaseous rotating disk form the basis for many models in astrophysics objects. Instabilities against perturbations in such disks play an important role in the theory of the formation of stars and planets. Traditionally,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-19 Edward Liverts , Michael Mond , Vadim Urpin

Divergence and vorticity damping, which operate upon horizontal divergence and relative vorticity, are explicit diffusion mechanisms used in dynamical cores to ensure stability. To avoid numerical blow-up from excessively strong diffusion,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Timothy C. Andrews , Christiane Jablonowski

We develop new variational principles to study stability and equilibrium of axisymmetric flows. We show that there is an infinite number of steady state solutions. We show that these steady states maximize a (non-universal) $H$-function. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Leprovost , Bérengère Dubrulle , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The possibility that the magnetic shear-flow instability (MRI, Balbus-Hawley instability) might give rise to turbulence in a cylindric Couette flow is investigated through numerical simulations. The study is linear and the fluid flow is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Rüdiger , Y. Zhang

We have calculated the general dispersion relationship for surface waves on a ferrofluid layer of any thickness and viscosity, under the influence of a uniform vertical magnetic field. The amplification of these waves can induce an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-30 Berengere Abou , Gilles Neron de Surgy , Jose-Eduardo Wesfreid

We study stability of axisymmetric liquid bridges between two axisymmetric solid bodies in the absence of gravity under arbitrary asymmetric perturbations which are expanded into a set of angular Fourier modes. We determine the stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-13 Boris Rubinstein