Side-entrainment in a jet embedded in a sidewind
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-05-19 v1
Abstract
Numerical simulations of HH jets never show side-entrainment of environmental material into the jet beam. This is because the bow shock associated with the jet head pushes the surrounding environment into a dense shell, which is never in direct contact with the sides of the jet beam. We present 3D simulations in which a side-streaming motion (representing the motion of the outflow source through the surrounding medium) pushes the post-bow shock shell into direct contact with the jet beam. This is a possible mechanism for modelling well collimated "molecular jets" as an atomic/ionic flow which entrains molecules initially present only in the surrounding environment.
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@article{arxiv.1009.0061,
title = {Side-entrainment in a jet embedded in a sidewind},
author = {D. Lopez-Camara and A. C. Raga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0061},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ