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The question whether liquid atomization (or pulverization) resorts to instability dynamics (through refinements of Rayleigh-Plateau, Rayleigh-Taylor or Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism) or to turbulent cascades similar to Richardson and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Nicolas Rimbert , Guillaume Castanet

The aim of this paper is to give a result concerning the stability properties of the solutions of magnetohydrodynamics equations at small but finite Reynolds numbers. These solutions are found using the alpha-effect: this method gives us…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Ismaël Bouya

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 combined effect of viscosity and vorticity on the growth rate of the bubble associated with single mode Rayleigh -Taylor instability is investigated. It is shown that the effect of viscosity on the motion of the lighter fluid associated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Rahul Banerjee , Labakanta Mandal , S. Roy , M. Khan , M. R. Gupta

We study an instability of thin liquid-vapor layers bounded by rigid parallel walls from both below and above. In this system, the interfacial instability is induced by lateral vapor pressure fluctuation, which is in turn attributed to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-30 Kentaro Kanatani

We propose a scheme to initiate and examine Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the two species Bose-Einstein condensates. We identify $^{85}$Rb-$^{87}$Rb mixture as an excellent candidate to observe it experimentally. The instability is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-01 S. Gautam , D. Angom

The Rayleigh capillary instability of a cylindrical interface between two immiscible fluids is one of the most fundamental in fluid dynamics. As Plateau observed from energetic considerations and Rayleigh clarified through hydrodynamics,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas R. Powers , Dengfu Zhang , Raymond E. Goldstein , Howard A. Stone

We report an experimental study of a magnetic liquid drop deposited on a superhydrophobic substrate and subjected to vertical vibrations in presence of a static magnetic field. It is well-known that a flattened drop of usual liquid displays…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Timothée Jamin , Yacine Djama , Jean-Claude Bacri , Eric Falcon

We investigate the development of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the inner edge of an astrophysical disk around a spinning central black hole. We solve the equations of general relativity that govern small amplitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Demetrios Papadopoulos , Ioannis Contopoulos

The stability of dissipative Taylor-Couette flows with an axial stable density stratification and a prescribed azimuthal magnetic field is considered. Global nonaxisymmetric solutions of the linearized MHD equations with toroidal magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Ruediger , D. A. Shalybkov

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

We perform analytic linear stability analyses of an interface separating two stratified media threaded by a radiation flux, a configuration relevant in several astrophysical contexts. We develop a general framework for analyzing such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Emmanuel Jacquet , Mark Krumholz

This study presents a method for approximating the multidimensional effects of Rayleigh-Taylor instability as a modification of the one-dimensional hydro equations. This modification is similar to the Shakura-Sunyaev {\alpha} prescription…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Paul C. Duffell

It is known that in a hydrodynamic Taylor-Couette system uniform rotation or a rotation law with positive shear ('super-rotation') are linearly stable. It is also known that a conducting fluid under the presence of a sufficiently strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 G. Rüdiger , M. Schultz , M. Gellert , F. Stefani

Motivated by Bresch, Desjardins, Gisclon and Sart (2008), in this paper, we study the influence of capillary number on an instability result related to the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations. Precisely, we investigate the instability of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Tien-Tai Nguyen

We consider the effect of radial fluid injection and suction on Taylor-Couette flow. Injection at the outer cylinder and suction at the inner cylinder generally results in a linearly unstable steady spiralling flow, even for cylindrical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Basile Gallet , Charles R. Doering , Edward A. Spiegel

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) in cylindrical Taylor-Couette flow with external helical magnetic field is simulated for infinite and finite aspect ratios. We solve the MHD equations in their small Prandtl number limit and confirm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacek Szklarski , Günther Rüdiger

We show that small perturbations of the spatially homogeneous equilibrium of a thermally driven compressible viscous fluid are globally stable. Specifically, any weak solution of the evolutionary Navier--Stokes--Fourier system driven by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Eduard Feireisl , Yong Lu , Yongzhong Sun

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 use the machinery usually employed for studying the onset of Rayleigh--B\'enard convection in hydro- and magnetohydro-dynamic settings to address the onset of convection induced by the magnetothermal instability and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-01 Himanshu Gupta , Shailendra K. Rathor , Martin E. Pessah , Sagar Chakraborty