The nonlinear development of the relativistic two-stream instability

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/14/145007MaRDI QIDQ2843850zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors I. Hawke, G. L. Comer, N. Andersson

Publication date 26 August 2013

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4070, https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/353665/1/MultiFluid_IOP.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamic effectslinear perturbation theorynonlinear numerical simulationstwo-stream instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Abstract: The two-stream instability has been mooted as an explanation for a range of astrophysical applications from GRBs and pulsar glitches to cosmology. Using the first nonlinear numerical simulations of relativistic multi-species hydrodynamics we show that the onset and initial growth of the instability is very well described by linear perturbation theory. In the later stages the linear and nonlinear description match only qualitatively, and the instability does not saturate even in the nonlinear case by purely ideal hydrodynamic effects.

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