KelvinHelmholtz: Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability ============================================= .. sectionauthor:: Axel Huebl .. moduleauthor:: Axel Huebl , E. Paulo Alves, Thomas Grismayer This example simulates a shear-flow instability known as the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in a near-relativistic setup as studied in [Alves12]_, [Grismayer13]_, [Bussmann13]_. The default setup uses a pre-ionized quasi-neutral hydrogen plasma. Modifiying the ion species' mass to resample positrons instead is a test we perform regularly to control numerical heating and charge conservation. References ---------- .. [Alves12] E.P. Alves, T. Grismayer, S.F. Martins, F. Fiuza, R.A. Fonseca, L.O. Silva. *Large-scale magnetic field generation via the kinetic kelvin-helmholtz instability in unmagnetized scenarios*, The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2012), https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/746/2/L14 .. [Grismayer13] T. Grismayer, E.P. Alves, R.A. Fonseca, L.O. Silva. *dc-magnetic-field generation in unmagnetized shear flows*, Physical Reveview Letters (2013), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.015005 .. [Bussmann13] M. Bussmann, H. Burau, T.E. Cowan, A. Debus, A. Huebl, G. Juckeland, T. Kluge, W.E. Nagel, R. Pausch, F. Schmitt, U. Schramm, J. Schuchart, R. Widera. *Radiative Signatures of the Relativistic Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability*, Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (2013), http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2503210.2504564