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Using our new 3-D relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) code parallelized with MPI, we have investigated long-term particle acceleration associated with an relativistic electron-positron jet propagating in an unmagnetized ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 K. -I. Nishikawa , M. Medvedev , B. Zhang , P. Hardee , J. Niemiec , A. Nordlund , J. Frederiksen , Y. Mizuno , H. Sol , G. J. Fishman

We have investigated particle acceleration and shock structure associated with an unmagnetized relativistic jet propagating into an unmagnetized plasma. Strong magnetic fields generated in the trailing jet shock lead to transverse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 K. -I. Nishikawa , P. Hardee , B. Zhang , I. Dutan , M. Medvedev , E. J. Choi , K. W. Min , J. Niemiec , Y. Mizuno , A. Nordlund , J. T. Frederiksen , H. Sol , M. Pohl , D. H. Hartmann

Almost all sources of high energy particles and photons are associated with jet phenomena. Prominent sources of such highly relativistic outflows are pulsar winds and Active Galactic Nuclei. The current understanding of these jets assumes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-01 Thomas Burkart , Oliver Elbracht , Urs Ganse , Felix Spanier

High-energy particles stream during coronal mass ejections or flares through the plasma of the solar wind. This causes instabilities, which lead to wave growth at specific resonant wave numbers, especially within shock regions. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-01 Sebastian Lange , Felix Spanier , Markus Battarbee , Rami Vainio , Timo Laitinen

Spatial linear instability analysis is employed to investigate the instability of a viscoelastic liquid jet in a co-flowing gas stream. The theoretical model incorporates a non-uniform axial base profile represented by a hyperbolic tangent,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jiawei Li , Ming Wang , Kai Mu , Zhaodong Ding , Ting Si

Relativistic outflows represent one of the best-suited tools to probe the physics of AGN. Numerical modelling of internal structure of the relativistic outflows on parsec scales provides important clues about the conditions and dynamics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Perucho , A. P. Lobanov , J. M. Marti

The analysis of the stability properties of astrophysical jets against Kelvin-Helmholtz (or shear-layer) instabilities plays a basic role in the understanding the origin and physical characteristics of these objects. Numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Micono , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia , P. Rossi , A. Ferrari , R. Rosner

The common feature of sheared flows of an ideal fluid and plasma in magnetic field is the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. This instability is described by identical equations in mentioned two cases. The wave equation for the eigenmodes in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 A. Yu. Chirkov , V. I. Khvesyuk

Stochastic dynamical systems arise as models for fluid particle motion in geophysical flows with random velocity fields. Escape probability (from a fluid domain) and mean residence time (in a fluid domain) quantify fluid transport between…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jinqiao Duan , James R. Brannan , Vincent J. Ervin

Following the non-perturbative light-front Hamiltonian formalism developed in our preceding work [Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 5, 056014], we investigate the momentum broadening of a quark jet inside a SU(3) colored medium. We perform the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Meijian Li , Tuomas Lappi , Xingbo Zhao , Carlos A. Salgado

Relativistic jets in Galactic superluminals and extragalactic AGN may be surrounded by a wind near to the central engine. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation reveal considerable stabilization of relativistic jet flow by a wind to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip E. Hardee , Philip A. Hughes

We present the results of three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of interaction of AGN jets with a dense turbulent two-phase interstellar medium, which would be typical of high redshift galaxies. We describe the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Ralph S. Sutherland , A. Y. Wagner

This article delves into the dynamics of inviscid annular supersonic jets, akin to those exiting converging-diverging nozzles in over-expanded regimes. It focuses on the first azimuthal Fourier mode of flow fluctuations and examines their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-14 Vincent Jaunet , Guillaume Lehnasch

We investigate how the angular structure of GRB jets effects the afterglow light curves at different viewing angles, $\theta_{v}$, from the jet symmetry axis. A numerical hydrodynamical modeling for the evolution of a relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan Granot , Pawan Kumar , Tsvi Piran

Shock acceleration is a ubiquitous phenomenon in astrophysical plasmas. Plasma waves and their associated instabilities (e.g., Buneman, Weibel and other two-stream instabilities) created in collisionless shocks are responsible for particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 K. -I. Nishikawa , P. Hardee , C. B. Hededal , G. Richardson , H. Sol , R. Preece , G. J. Fishman

We investigate the conditions under which the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in a cylindrical magnetic flux tube moving along its axis become unstable against the Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability. We \textbf{use} the dispersion relations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 I. Zhelyazkov , Z. Dimitrov

We carry out a numerical hydrodynamical modeling for the evolution of a relativistic collimated outflow, as it interacts with the surrounding medium, and calculate the light-curve resulting from synchrotron emission of the shocked fluid.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pawan Kumar , Jonathan Granot

In order to find a law characterising the decrease of velocity along a jet, five analytical methods are suggested. The first two simple models examine the variation of velocity in the presence of Newton's or Stoke's resistance. The equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-20 Lorenzo Zaninetti

Using the Berry-curvature modified kinetic equation we study instabilities in anisotropic chiral plasmas. It is demonstrated that even for a very small value of anisotropic parameter the chiral-imbalance instability is strongly modified.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-09 Avdhesh Kumar , Jitesh R. Bhatt , P. K. Kaw

Many natural and engineering systems involve the mixing of two fluid streams, in which the effects of density and viscosity gradients play important roles in determining flow stability. We perform linear stability calculations for a jet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jinwei Yang , Vinod Srinivasan