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The stability of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) interchange mode at marginal conditions is studied. A sufficiently strong constant magnetic field component transverse to the direction of mode symmetry provides the marginality…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 Jupiter Bagaipo , P. N. Guzdar , A. B. Hassam

We study a new type of large-scale instability, which arises in obliquely rotating stratified electroconductive fluid with an external uniform magnetic field and a small-scale external force having zero helicity. This force gives rise to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-06 M. I. Kopp , K. N. Kulik , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

The work extends the linear fields' solution of compressible nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics~(MHD) to the case where the magnetic field depends on superlinear powers of position vector, usually but not always, expressed in Cartesian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Wayne Arter

We investigate why the non-slip boundary condition for the velocity, imposed in the direction of impressed magnetic fields, can contribute to the magnetic inhibition effect based on the nonhomogeneous magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (abbr. NMRT)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

This paper studies the instability of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) systems on a sphere using analytical methods. The underlying flow consists of a zonal differential rotation and a toroidal magnetic field is present. Semicircle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-20 Chen Wang , Andrew D. Gilbert , Joanne Mason

In this article, we study the stability and large time behavior for an multi-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamical system with a velocity damping term, for small perturbations near a steady-state of magnetic field fulfilling the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Hui Fang , Pingping Gui , Yanping Zhou

In this paper, we revisit the governing equations for linear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and instabilities existing within a magnetized, plane-parallel, self-gravitating slab. Our approach allows for fully non-uniformly magnetized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 J. -B. Durrive , R. Keppens , M. Langer

In this article we consider the inhomogeneous incompressible Euler equations describing two fluids with different constant densities under the influence of gravity as a differential inclusion. By considering the relaxation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Björn Gebhard , József J. Kolumbán , László Székelyhidi

We study the nonlinear stability of a large class of inhomogeneous steady state solutions to the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model. Under a simple criterion, we prove the nonlinear stability of steady states which are decreasing functions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Mohammed Lemou , Ana Maria Luz , Florian Mehats

A Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability of a dense colloidal layer under gravity in a capillary of microfluidic dimensions is considered. We access all relevant lengthscales with particle-level microscopy and computer simulations which…

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) were in\-troduced by previous authors both in Lagrangian and Eulerian form. In this paper we introduce simpler Eulerian variational principles from which all the relevant equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Asher Yahalom

In [F. Jiang, S. Jiang, On instability and stability of three-dimensional gravity driven viscous flows in a bounded domain, Adv. Math., 264 (2014) 831--863], Jiang et.al. investigated the instability of Rayleigh--Taylor steady-state of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Fei Jiang

We study gravito-magnetic instabilities of a static homogeneous medium with an aligned magnetic field in the two contexts of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD): first, MHD with post-Newtonian (PN) corrections, and second, special…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Hyerim Noh , Jai-chan Hwang

We present the linear theory of two-dimensional incompressible magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a system composed of a linear elastic (Hookean) layer above a lighter semi-infinite ideal fluid with magnetic fields present, above and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 S. A. Piriz , A. R. Piriz , N. A. Tahir

We reformulate in Lagrangian coordinates the two-phase free boundary problem for the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics in a infinite slab, which is incompressible, viscous and of zero resistivity, as one for the Navier-Stokes equations with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Yanjin Wang

3-D extended-MHD simulations of the magnetized ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability are presented for the first time. Previous 2-D simulations claiming perturbation suppression by magnetic tension are shown to be misleading, as they do not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Christopher A. Walsh

This paper focuses on the 3D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with mixed partial dissipation and magnetic diffusion. Our main result assesses the global stability of perturbations near the steady solution given by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Jiahong Wu , Yi Zhu

The linear instability of thin, vertically-isothermal Keplerian discs, under the influence of axial magnetic field is investigated. Solutions of the stability problem are found explicitly by asymptotic expansions in the small aspect ratio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Liverts , Yu. Shtemler , M. Mond

We consider the Rayleigh-Taylor problem for two compressible, immiscible, inviscid, barotropic fluids evolving with a free interface in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. After constructing Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

In this work we prove the nonlinear instability of inhomogeneous steady states solutions to the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model. We first study the linear instability of this model under a simple criterion by adapting the techniques…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Mohammed Lemou , Ana Maria Luz , Florian Méhats