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We experimentally investigate the impulsive shock propagation caused by an impact into vertically oriented 3D granular packings under gravity. We observe a crossover of wave propagation, from sound excitation at low impact to shock front…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-18 S. van den Wildenberg , X. Nguyen , A. Tourin , X. Jia

The hydrodynamics of an ultrarelativistic flow, enclosed by a strong shock wave, are described by the well known Blandford-McKee solutions in spherical geometry. These solutions, however, become inaccurate at a distance $\sim R/2$ behind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Tamar Faran , Re'em Sari

We begin with the theoretical study of spectral energy cascade due to the propagation of high amplitude sound in the absence of thermal sources. To this end, a first-principles-based system of governing equations, correct up to second order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-24 Prateek Gupta

The nature of traveling wave solutions to equations of hydrodynamics of a generic three-dimensional electron gas with parabolic dispersion law depends on whether the motion is subsonic or supersonic. Solitons representing localized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Eugene B. Kolomeisky

We considered the structure of steady-state radiative shock waves propagating in the partially ionized hydrogen gas with density rho1 = 1e-10 gm/cm^3 and temperature 3000K <= T1 <= 8000K. The radiative shock wave models with electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. A. Fadeyev , H. Le Coroller , D. Gillet

We study the formation and the dynamics of a shock wave originating from the collision between two ultracold clouds of strongly interacting fermions as observed at a lower temperature in an experiment by Joseph et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-26 S. Chiacchiera , D. Davesne , M. Urban

Electron skew scattering by impurities is one of the major mechanisms behind the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic nanostructures. It is particularly strong at the surface of topological insulators where electron dynamics is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Cooper Finnigan , Dmitry K. Efimkin

Experiments on 2D random water wave propagation in a large wave tank are analyzed when the effect of dispersion changes. A stereoscopic profilometry technique is used to measure the water surface displacement resolved in both time and space…

We study the stability of standing shock waves in advection-dominated accretion flows into a Schwarzschild black hole by 2D general relativistic hydrodynamic simulations as well as linear analysis in the equatorial plane. We demonstrate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

Hydrodynamic instabilities driven by a direct current are analyzed in 2D and 3D relativisticlike systems with the Dyakonov-Shur boundary conditions supplemented by a boundary condition for temperature. Besides the conventional Dyakonov-Shur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 P. O. Sukhachov , E. V. Gorbar , I. A. Shovkovy

Some essential features of the ion plasma wave in both kinetic and fluid descriptions are presented. The wave develops at wavelengths shorter than the electron Debye radius. Thermal motion of electrons at this scale is such that they…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 J. Vranjes , M. Kono

In this paper, we are concerned with the instability problem of a 3-D transonic oblique shock wave for the steady supersonic flow past an infinitely long sharp wedge. The flow is assumed to be isentropic and irrotational. It was indicated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Li Liang , Xu Gang , Yin Huicheng

We report on experimental observations of flow induced large amplitude dust-acoustic shock waves (DASW) in a complex plasma. The experiments have been carried out in a $\Pi$ shaped DC glow discharge experimental device using kaolin…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Jaiswal , P. Bandyopadhyay , A. Sen

We report on the formation of a dispersive shock wave in a nonlinear optical medium. We monitor the evolution of the shock by tuning the incoming beam power. The experimental observations for the position and intensity of the solitonic edge…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-05-20 T. Bienaimé , M. Isoard , Q. Fontaine , A. Bramati , A. M. Kamchatnov , Q. Glorieux , N. Pavloff

Brenner has recently proposed modifications to the Navier-Stokes equations that are based on theoretical arguments but supported only by experiments having a fairly limited range. These modifications relate to a diffusion of fluid volume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher J. Greenshields , Jason M. Reese

A full particle simulation study is carried out for studying microinstabilities generated at the shock front of perpendicular collisionless shocks. The structure and dynamics of shock waves are determined by Alfven Mach number and plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takayuki Umeda , Yoshitaka Kidani , Shuichi Matsukiyo , Ryo Yamazaki

Here we study the nature and characteristics of waves propagating in partially ionised plasmas in the weakly ionised limit, typical for the lower part of the solar atmosphere. The framework in which the properties of waves are discussed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 A. Alharbi , I. Ballai , V. Fedun , G. Verth

The scaling of turbulent heat flux with respect to electrostatic potential is examined in the framework of a reduced ($4$D) kinetic system describing electrostatic turbulence in magnetized plasmas excited by the ion temperature gradient…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Vasil Bratanov , Swadesh Mahajan , David Hatch

Anisotropic hydrodynamics (aHydro) has proven successful in modeling the evolution of quark-gluon matter created in heavy-ion collisions. The hydrodynamic description of quark-gluon plasma has also been widely used to study sound phenomena,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Aleksandr Kovalenko

In this article, we present a description of the behaviour of shock-compressed solid materials following the Geometrical Shock Dynamics (GSD) theory. GSD has been successfully applied to various gas dynamics problems, and here we have…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-06 R. K. Anand