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Instabilities in rotating detonation are concerned because of their potential influence on the stability of operation. Previous studies on instability of 2-D rotating detonation mainly cared about the one of the contact discontinuity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-17 Qin Li , Pengxin Liu , Hanxin Zhang

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities are common in astrophysical systems, ranging from jet black holes up to protoplanetary accretion disk. An astrophysical object with strong characteristics of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is Caraguejo…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-19 P. Freitas-Lemes , I. Rodrigues , M. Faúndez-Abans

We consider the linear stability of two inviscid fluids, in the presence of gravity, sheared past each other and separated by an flexible plate. Conditions for exponential growth of velocity perturbations are found as functions of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Chou

We report experimental results for the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability between two immiscible fluids in parallel flow in a Hele-Shaw cell. We focus our interest on the influence of the gap size between the walls on the instability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 Laurent Meignin , Patricia Ern , Philippe Gondret , Marc Rabaud

A relative motion of the normal and superfluid components of Helium II results in Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) at their common free surface. We found the exact solutions for the nonlinear stage of the development of that instability.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Nikolay M. Zubarev

We present here a survey of recent results concerning the mathematical analysis of instabilities of the interface between two incompressible, non viscous, fluids of constant density and vorticity concentrated on the interface. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Claude Bardos , David Lannes

The Kelvin-Helmholtz theorem on conservation of circulations is supposed to hold for ideal inviscid fluids and is believed to be play a crucial role in turbulent phenomena, such as production of dissipation by vortex line-stretching.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shiyi Chen , Gregory L. Eyink , Minping Wan , Zuoli Xiao

Paraxial propagation of a quasi-monochromatic light wave with two circular polarizations in a defocusing Kerr medium with anomalous dispersion inside a waveguide of annular cross-section was considered. In the phase-separated mode, the…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-18 Victor P. Ruban

The Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability is studied in a non-Newtonian dusty plasma with an experimentally verified model [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 98}, 145003 (2007)] of shear flow rate dependent viscosity. The shear flow profile used here is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Banerjee , S. Garai , M. S. Janaki , N. Chakrabarti

We derive here a new stability criterion for two-fluid interfaces. This criterion ensures the existence of "stable" local solutions that do no break down too fast due to Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. It can be seen both as a two-fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 David Lannes

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is widely spread in nature on scales from micrometer up to Galactic one. This instability refers to the growth of perturbation of an interface between two parallel streams of Newtonian fluids with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-15 Narsing K. Jha , Victor Steinberg

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

We investigate general thermodynamic stability conditions for the superfluid. This analysis is performed in an extended space of thermodynamic variables containing (along with the usual thermodynamic coordinates such as pressure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. F. Andreev , L. A. Melnikovsky

Stability of homogeneous precession of spin due to parametric excitation of spin waves is considered as the explanation of the "catastrophic relaxation", that is observed in the superfluid 3He-B. It is shown, that at sufficiently low…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Surovtsev , I. A. Fomin

We demonstrate an experimentally feasible method for generating the classical Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a single component atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. By progressively reducing a potential barrier between two counter-flowing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-23 A. W. Baggaley , N. G. Parker

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

In this thesis we investigate the instabilities of superfluids at finite superflow by means of a hydrodynamical approach. We find that at a finite value of the background superfluid velocity a hydrodynamic collective mode crosses to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Filippo Sottovia

The observed wiggles and knots in astrophysical jets as well as the curvilinear motion of radio emitting features are frequently interpreted as signatures of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability (eg. Hardee 1987). We investigate the KH…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hanasz

We analyze nonlinear dynamics of the Kelvin-Helmholtz quantum instability of the He-II free surface, which evolves during counterpropagation of the normal and superfluid components of liquid helium. It is shown that in the vicinity of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-12 N. M. Zubarev , P. M. Lushnikov

The isothermal spatio-temporal evolution of an interface between binary fluids, with temperature sensitive miscibility gap, subjected to shear flow is investigated using direct numerical simulations. The thermophysical properties and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Anubhav Dubey , Sakir Amiroudine