Issue |
A&A
Volume 406, Number 1, July IV 2003
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Page(s) | 37 - 41 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030778 | |
Published online | 17 November 2003 |
The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in an expanding universe and its effect on dark matter
1
GRECO, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, 98bis Boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
2
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, UK
Corresponding author: K. A. Malik, malik@iap.fr
Received:
16
January
2003
Accepted:
12
May
2003
We extend the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability to an expanding background. We study the evolution of a non-viscous irrotational fluid and find that for wavelengths much smaller than the Hubble scale small perturbations of the fluid are unstable for wavenumbers larger than a critical value. We then apply this result in the early universe, treating cold dark matter as a classical fluid with vanishing background pressure.
Key words: instabilities / cosmology: theory / cosmology: dark matter
© ESO, 2003
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