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The stability problem of MHD Taylor-Couette flows with toroidal magnetic fields is considered in dependence on the magnetic Prandtl number. Only the most uniform (but not current-free) field with B\_in = B\_out has been considered. For high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-22 M. Gellert , G. Ruediger

We propose using a directional time-varying (rotating) driving magnetic field to suppress magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor (MRT) instability in dynamic Z-pinches. A rotational drive magnetic field is equivalent to two magnetic-field components,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Shu-Chao Duan , Long Yang , Bo Xiao , Ming-Xian Kan , Gang-Hua Wang , Wei-Ping Xie

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

Suspended fibres significantly alter fluid rheology, as exhibited in for example solutions of DNA, RNA and synthetic biological nanofibres. It is of interest to determine how this altered rheology affects flow stability. Motivated by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-07 Craig R. Holloway , David J. Smith , Rosemary J. Dyson

It is known that in classical fluids turbulence typically occurs at high Reynolds numbers. But can turbulence occur at low Reynolds numbers? Here we investigate the transition to turbulence in the classic Taylor-Couette system in which the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-12 Sebastian Altmeyer , Younghae Do , Ying-Cheng Lai

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

The linearized Navier-Stokes equations for a system of superposed immiscible compressible ideal fluids are analyzed. The results of the analysis reconcile the stabilizing and destabilizing effects of compressibility reported in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Livescu

This paper studies the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations governing stratified flows in a bounded domain under a gravitational potential \(f\). Our main results are as follows. First, we provide a rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Song Jiang , Quan Wang

Rayleigh-Taylor instability occurs when a heavier fluid overlies a lighter fluid, and the two seek to exchange positions under the effect of gravity. We present linearized theory for arbitrary 3D initial disturbances that grow in time, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-18 S. J. Walters , L. K. Forbes

Early studies on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) primarily relied on the Navier-Stokes (NS) model. As research progresses, it becomes increasingly evident that the kinetic information that the NS model failed to capture is of great value…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-04 Jie Chen , Aiguo Xu , Yudong Zhang , Dawei Chen , Zhihua Chen

The fluid flow along the Riga plate with the influence of magnetic force in a rotating system has been investigated numerically. The governing equations have been derived from Navier-Stokes equations. Applying the boundary layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-29 Muhammad Minarul Islam , Sheela Khatun , Md. Tusher Mollah , Md. Mahmud Alam

We investigate the influence of rotation on the onset and saturation of the Faraday instability in a vertically oscillating two-layer miscible fluid using a theoretical model and direct numerical simulations (DNS). Our analytical approach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-29 Narinder Singh , Anikesh Pal

We consider the motion of two superposed immiscible, viscous, incompressible, capillary fluids that are separated by a sharp interface which needs to be determined as part of the problem. Allowing for gravity to act on the fluids, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett

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

Aims: To investigate the stability and angular momentum transport by the strato-rotational instability in the nonlinear regime. Methods: The hydrodynamic compressible equations are solved in a cartesian box in which the outer cylinder is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , G. Ruediger

Taylor-Couette flow is often used as a simplified model for complex rotating flows in the interior of stars and accretion disks. The flow dynamics in these objects is influenced by magnetic fields. For example, quasi-Keplerian flows in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-15 Anna Guseva , Steven M. Tobias

This paper investigates the asymptotic stability of rarefaction waves for a one-dimensional compressible fluid system, where the Newton's law of viscosity and Fourier's law of heat conduction are replaced by Maxwell's law and Cattaneo's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yuxi Hu , Mengran Yuan , Jie Zhang

We investigate the Couette-Taylor problem for a steady incompressible viscous fluid in a 3D cylindrical annulus, where one of the two cylinders is still, under both Dirichlet and boundary conditions involving the vorticity that naturally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Edoardo Bocchi , Filippo Gazzola , Antonio Hidalgo-Torné

This work examines the effect of the embedded magnetic field strength on the non-linear development of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) (with a field-aligned interface) in an ideal gas close to the incompressible limit in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jack Carlyle , Andrew Hillier

The two-fluid (ions and electrons) plasma Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of a cylindrical light/heavy density interface is numerically investigated without an initial magnetic field. Varying the Debye length scale, we examine the effects of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Y. Li , R. Samtaney , D. Bond , V. Wheatley