Drag-model sensitivity of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves in canopy flows

Ubiquity of Kelvin–Helmholtz waves at Earth's magnetopause

Magnetic reconnection is believed to be the dominant process by which solar wind plasma enters the magnetosphere. However, for periods of northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) reconnection is less likely at the dayside magnetopause, and Kelvin-Helmholtz waves (KHWs) may be important agents for plasma entry and for the excitation of ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves. The relative importanc...

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities of relativistic magnetohydrodynamic planar flows

Aims. We investigate the stability properties of the interface separating two relativistic magnetized fluids in relative motion. The two fluids are governed by the (special) relativistic equations for a perfect magnetized gas in the infinite conductivity approximation. Methods. By adopting the vortex-sheet approximation, the relativistic magnetohydrodynamics equations are linearized around the ...

Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities

Kelvin-helmholtz Instability by Sph

In this paper, we have modeled the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) problem of an incompressible two-phase immiscible fluid in a stratified inviscid shear flow with interfacial tension using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The time dependent evolution of the two-fluid interface over a wide range of Richardson number (Ri) and for three different density ratios is numerically inve...

Differential Diffusion in Breaking Kelvin–Helmholtz Billows

Direct numerical simulations are used to compare turbulent diffusivities of heat and salt during the growth and collapse of Kelvin–Helmholtz billows. The ratio of diffusivities is obtained as a function of buoyancy Reynolds number Reb and of the density ratio R (the ratio of the contributions of heat and salt to the density stratification). The diffusivity ratio is generally less than unity (he...