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Spectral properties of the turbulent cascade from fluid to kinetic scales in collisionless plasmas are investigated by means of large-size three-dimensional (3D) hybrid (fluid electrons, kinetic protons) particle-in-cell simulations.…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Luca Franci , Simone Landi , Andrea Verdini , Lorenzo Matteini , Petr Hellinger

Motivated by the very low diffusivity recently found in ab initio simulations of liquid water, we have studied its dependence with temperature, system size, and duration of the simulations. We use ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD),…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Fernandez-Serra , Emilio Artacho

{It is well established that the atomic interstellar hydrogen is filling the galaxies and constitutes the building blocks of molecular clouds.} {To understand the formation and the evolution of molecular clouds, it is necessary to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Audit , P. Hennebelle

The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

A number of micro-scale biological flows are characterized by spatio-temporal chaos. These include dense suspensions of swimming bacteria, microtubule bundles driven by motor proteins, and dividing and migrating confluent layers of cells. A…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Javier Urzay , Amin Doostmohammadi , Julia M. Yeomans

We present the most extensive direct numerical simulations, attempted so far, of statistically steady, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence in two-dimensional fluid films with air-drag-induced friction and with polymer additives. Our study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-16 Anupam Gupta , Prasad Perlekar , Rahul Pandit

The fast rates of magnetic reconnection found in both nature and experiments are important to understand theoretically. Recently, it was demonstrated that two-fluid magnetic reconnection remains fast in the strong guide field regime,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Stanier , Andrei N. Simakov , L. Chacon , W. Daughton

Recent experimental and theoretical (both improved semiclassical and fully quantum-mechanical) results for B III and Ne VII delta n = 0 transitions with n = 2 or 3, respectively, are discussed. The probable reasons for disagreements by…

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We show that the coupled two-fluid gravitating system (e.g. stiff matter and 'vacuum energy') could trap nonlinear gravitational waves (e.g. Einstein-Rosen waves). The gravitational wave amplitude varies harmonically in time transferring…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-08 Merab Gogberashvili , Ramaz Khomeriki

We theoretically investigate the interplay between magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and shear flows in a partially ionized solar plasma, focusing on the energy exchange mediated by the flow and the transformation between wave modes. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Miquel Cantallops , Roberto Soler

The gravitational instability of a filamentary molecular cloud in non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics is investigated. The filament is assumed to be in hydrostatic equilibrium. We add the effect of ambipolar diffusion to the filament which is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Mohammad Hosseinirad , Kazem Naficy , Shahram Abbassi , Mahmood Roshan

The predictive capability of two way--coupled point-particle Euler-Lagrange model in accurately capturing particle-flow interactions under grid refinement, wherein the particle size can be comparable to the grid size, is systematically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-22 Nathan A. Keane , Sourabh V. Apte , Suhas S. Jain , Makrand A. Khanwale

Although thermal pressure is unimportant dynamically in most molecular gas, the temperature is an important diagnostic of dynamical processes and physical conditions. This is the first of two papers on thermal equilibrium in molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Padoan , ; Ellen Zweibel , ; AAke Nordlund

The Riemann problem is one of the basic building blocks for numerical methods in computational fluid mechanics. Nonetheless, there are still open questions and gaps in theory and modelling for situations with complex thermodynamic behavior.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Timon Hitz , Steven Joens , Matthias Heinen , Jadran Vrabec , Claus-Dieter Munz

This second part of the study develops a geometric and asymptotic description of how surface tension governs the modulational stability of interfacial waves in a two-layer fluid. Extending the analytical framework of Part~I, surface tension…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-18 Olga Avramenko , Volodymyr Naradovyi

This article discusses a potential impact of turbulent velocity fluctuations of the air on a drizzle formation in Cumulus clouds. Two different representations of turbulent velocity fluctuations for a microphysics formulated in a Lagrangian…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 M. Andrejczuk , A. Gadian , A. Blyth

An experimental study of long interfacial gravity waves was conducted in a closed wave tank containing two layers of viscous immiscible fluids. The study focuses on the development in time of the mean particle drift that occurs close to the…

Simulations generally show that non-self-gravitating clouds have a lognormal column density ($\Sigma$) probability distribution function (PDF), while self-gravitating clouds with active star formation develop a distinct power-law tail at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Sayantan Auddy , Shantanu Basu , Takahiro Kudoh

We present a number of statistical tools for obtaining studying turbulence in molecular clouds and diffuse interstellar medium. For our tests we used of three-dimensional 512 cube compressible MHD isothermal simulations performed for…

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