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Turbulence is ubiquitous in astrophysical fluids such as the interstellar medium (ISM) and the intracluster medium (ICM). In turbulence studies, it is customary to assume that fluid is driven on a single scale. However, in astrophysical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Hyunju Yoo , Jungyeon Cho

The original goal of Large Eddy Simulations of fully developed turbulent flows was to accurately describe large-scale flow features ${\bf u}(\Delta)$ at the scales $r\geq \Delta$ where $\Delta$ is a size of computational mesh. The effect of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-29 Victor Yakhot , John Wanderer

We present the results of a series of numerical simulations of compressible, self-gravitating hydrodynamic turbulence of cluster-forming clumps in molecular clouds. We examine the role that turbulence has in the formation of gravitationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David A. Tilley , Ralph E. Pudritz

Due to the prohibitive cost of resolving all relevant scales, direct numerical simulations of turbulence remain unfeasible for most real-world applications. Consequently, dynamically simplified formulations are needed for coarse-grained…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 F. Xavier Trias , Jesús Ruano , Alexey Duben , Andrey Gorobets

The gas motions in the intracluster medium (ICM) are governed by stratified turbulence. Stratified turbulence is fundamentally different from Kolmogorov (isotropic, homogeneous) turbulence; kinetic energy not only cascades from large to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-26 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

Modeling unresolved turbulence in astrophysical gasdynamic simulations can improve the modeling of other subgrid processes dependent on the turbulent structure of gas: from flame propagation in the interiors of combusting white dwarfs to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 Vadim A. Semenov

Observations of galaxy clusters show that the intracluster medium (ICM) is likely to be turbulent and is certainly magnetized. The properties of this magnetized turbulence are determined both by fundamental nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley

The nonequilibrium dissipation behaviour discovered for decaying fractal square grid-generated turbulence is experimentally investigated using hot-wire anemometry in a wind tunnel. The previous results are consolidated and benchmarked with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-25 Pedro C. Valente

Halo mergers and shock waves play a crucial role in the process of hierarchical clustering. Hydrodynamical simulations are the principal investigation tool in this field for theoreticians, and predict that a by-product of cluster formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-15 Luigi Iapichino

We review recent results from numerical simulations and related models of MHD turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) and in molecular clouds. We discuss the implications of turbulence for the processes of cloud formation and evolution,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Vazquez-Semadeni , E. C. Ostriker , T. Passot , C. F. Gammie , J. M. Stone

The present study addresses the reaction zone structure and burning mechanism of unstable detonations. Experiments investigated mainly two-dimensional methane-oxygen cellular detonations in a thin channel geometry. The sufficiently high…

Major mergers are considered to be a significant source of turbulence in clusters. We performed a numerical simulation of a major merger event using nested-grid initial conditions, adaptive mesh refinement, radiative cooling of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 W. Schmidt , C. Byrohl , J. F. Engels , C. Behrens , J. C. Niemeyer

We present non-radiative, cosmological zoom-simulations of galaxy cluster formation with magnetic fields and (anisotropic) thermal conduction of one very massive galaxy cluster with a mass at redshift zero that corresponds to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Ludwig M. Boess , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch

It is understood in a general sense that turbulent fluid motion below the shock front in a core-collapse supernova stiffens the effective equation of state of the fluid and aids in the revival of the explosion. However, when one wishes to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 David Calvert , Michael Redle , Bibek Gautam , Charles J. Stapleford , Carla Fröhlich , James P. Kneller , Matthias Liebendorfer

Turbulence evolution in a density-stratified medium differs from that of homogeneous isotropic turbulence described by the Kolmogorov picture. We evaluate the degree of this effect in the intracluster medium (ICM) with hydrodynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-13 Xun Shi , Congyao Zhang

We present results from a suite of binary merging cluster simulations. The hydrodynamical cluster simulations are performed employing a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) formulation in which gradient errors are strongly reduced by means…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 R. Valdarnini , C. L. Sarazin

The injection of turbulence in the circum-galactic medium at redshift z = 2 is investigated using the mesh-based hydrodynamic code Enzo and a subgrid-scale (SGS) model for unresolved turbulence. Radiative cooling and heating by a uniform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-18 Luigi Iapichino , Matteo Viel , Stefano Borgani

We use three-dimensional MHD simulations with anisotropic thermal conduction to study turbulence due to the magnetothermal instability (MTI) in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. The MTI grows on timescales of ~1 Gyr and is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ian J. Parrish , Michael McCourt , Eliot Quataert , Prateek Sharma

Supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds is a dominant agent that strongly affects the clouds' evolution and star formation activity. Turbulence may be initiated and maintained by a number of processes, acting at a wide range of physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 C. M. Brunt , M. H. Heyer , M. -M. Mac Low

Turbulence models, such as the Smagorinsky model herein, are used to represent the energy lost from resolved to under-resolved scales due to the energy cascade (i.e. non-linearity). Analytic estimates of the energy dissipation rates of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Ali Pakzad