Magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the presence of a radiation field

DOI10.1007/S10509-012-1096-4MaRDI QIDQ2443586zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mohsen Shadmehri, Zahra Enayati, Mahdi Khajavi

Publication date 8 April 2014

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5292

zbMATH Keywords

compressible mediaKelvin-Helmholtz instabilitymagnetohydrodynamicradiation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamical role of a radiation field on the growth rate of the unstable Kelvin - Helmholtz (KH) perturbations. As a first step toward this purpose, the analyze is done in a general way, irrespective of applying the model to a specific astronomical system. The transition zone between the two layers of the fluid is ignored. Then, we perform a linear analysis and by imposing suitable boundary conditions and considering a radiation field, we obtain appropriate dispersion relation. Unstable modes are studied by solving the dispersion equation numerically, and then growth rates of them are obtained. By analyzing our dispersion relation, we show that for a wide range of the input parameters, the radiation field has a destabilizing effect on KH instability. In eruptions of the galaxies or supermassive stars, the radiation field is dynamically important and because of the enhanced KH growth rates in the presence of the radiation; these eruptions can inject more momentum and energy into their environment and excite more turbulent motions.

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