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It is a deceptively simple question to ask how acoustic disturbances propagate in a non-homogeneous flowing fluid. This question can be answered by invoking the language of Lorentzian differential geometry: If the fluid is barotropic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Matt Visser

In this work, we perform linear perturbation on general relativistic isothermal accretion onto a non-rotating astrophysical black hole to study the salient features of the corresponding emergent acoustic metric. For spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-17 Md Arif Shaikh , Ivleena Firdousi , Tapas K. Das

Sound wave propagation in a relativistic perfect fluid with a non-homogeneous isentropic flow is studied in terms of acoustic geometry. The sound wave equation turns out to be equivalent to the equation of motion for a massless scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Neven Bilic

Emergent spacetime analogs in condensed matter systems have opened a fascinating window into simulating aspects of gravitational physics in controlled laboratory environments. In this work, we develop a comprehensive nonlinear analog…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Surajit Das , Surojit Dalui , Hrishit Banerjee , Arpan Krishna Mitra

Acoustic spacetimes have been known to offer analogue models for black hole physics and cosmology. Within this context, aspects of analogue quantum field theories in curved spacetime are studied. In particular some new comments have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Akshat Pandey

The hydrodynamics of low-angular-momentum, multi-transonic, axisymmetric, inviscid accretion flow onto a rotating black hole has been systematically investigated using three distinct disc geometries and two thermodynamic equations of state,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Ripon Sk , Sangita Chatterjee , Sankhasubhra Nag

We demonstrate that a spherical accretion onto astrophysical black holes, under the influence of Newtonian or various post-Newtonian pseudo-Schwarzschild gravitational potentials, may constitute a concrete example of classical analogue…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Surajit Dasgupta , Neven Bilić , Tapas K. Das

We investigate, within the framework of Quantum Field Theory in curved space, the correlations across the horizon of a black hole in order to highlight the particle-partner pair creation mechanism at the origin of Hawking radiation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-17 Roberto Balbinot , Alessandro Fabbri

The recent technological advances in controlling and manipulating fluids have enabled the experimental realization of acoustic analogues of gravitational black holes. A flowing fluid provides an effective curved spacetime on which sound…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Samuel L. Braunstein , Mir Faizal , Lawrence M. Krauss , Francesco Marino , Naveed A. Shah

We address an interesting question in the present paper that whether the acoustic gravity can be applied as a tool to the study of regular black holes. For this purpose, we construct a general acoustic regular black hole in the spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-22 Chen Lan , Yan-Gang Miao , Yi-Xiong Zang

Acoustic black holes are formed when a fluid flowing with subsonic velocities, accelerates and becomes supersonic. When the flow is directed from the subsonic to supersonic region, the surface on which the normal component of fluid velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Shreyansh S. Dave , Oindrila Ganguly , Saumia P. S. , Ajit M. Srivastava

Analogue gravity is based on the simple observation that perturbations propagating in several physical systems can be described by a quantum field theory in a curved spacetime. While phenomena like Hawking radiation are hardly detectable in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Stefano Finazzi

Analogue gravity studies the physics of curved spacetime in laboratory experiments, where the propagation of elementary excitations in inhomogeneous flows is mapped to those of scalar fields in a curved spacetime metric. While most analogue…

Realization of the stationary integral solutions of steady state transonic accretion flow in spherical symmetry helps to understand accretion phenomena on various astrophysical objects. In recent years, attempts have been made to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 Souvik Ghose , Tapas K. Das

We linearly perturb advective isothermal transonic accretion onto rotating astrophysical black holes to study the emergence of the relativistic acoustic spacetime and to investigate how the salient features of such spacetime get influenced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-05 Md Arif Shaikh

Acoustic black holes are very interesting non-gravitational objects which can be described by the geometrical formalism of General Relativity. These models can be useful to experimentally test effects otherwise undetectable, as for example…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Fagnocchi

Hawking radiation, the spontaneous emission of thermal photons from an event horizon, is one of the most intriguing and elusive predictions of field theory in curved spacetimes. A formally analogue phenomenon occurs at the supersonic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-06 A. Parola , M. Tettamanti , S. L. Cacciatori

Reasoning by analogies permeates theoretical developments in physics and astrophysics, motivated by the unreachable nature of many phenomena at play. For example, analogies have been used to understand black hole physics, leading to the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Carla R Almeida , Maxime J Jacquet

The analog acoustic metric has been originally derived for adiabatic acoustic perturbations propagating in an isentropic irrotational ideal fluid. In the framework of a Lagrangian hydrodynamic description we demonstrate that under certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-07 Neven Bilić , Hrvoje Nikolić

We consider an irrotational plasma fluid evolving under the effect of a background magnetic field. The magnetohydrodynamic formalism is used to describe the electromagnetic waves and the dynamics is described by a scalar field that follows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-15 Felipe A. Asenjo , Nelson Zamorano