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Supersonic isothermal turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. This work presents high-resolution AREPO hydrodynamical simulations of isolated shocks moving through supersonic turbulence to study the development and evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael M. Foley , Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart , Lars Hernquist , Alyssa Goodman

Turbophoresis in inhomogeneous turbulent flows leads to the formation of large-scale nonuniform particle number density distributions of inertial particles. This effect is associated with an effective drift velocity directed toward regions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-15 E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

We present theory of two-dimensional turbulence excited by an external force in thin fluid films on scales larger than the film thickness. The principal feature of two-dimensional turbulence is the tendency of producing motions of larger…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-07 Igor V. Kolokolov , Vladimir V. Lebedev

In recent works, we proposed a hypothesis that the turbulence in gases could be produced by particles interacting via a potential, and examined the proposed mechanics of turbulence formation in a simple model of two particles for a variety…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-12 Rafail V. Abramov

We study the elementary characteristics of turbulence in a quantum ferrofluid through the context of a dipolar Bose gas condensing from a highly non-equilibrium thermal state. Our simulations reveal that the dipolar interactions drive the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-31 T. Bland , G. W. Stagg , L. Galantucci , A. W. Baggaley , N. G. Parker

The shock wave instability induced when interacting with a small waviness on an interface was investigated analytically and numerically. The perturbation to the shock was phenomenologically treated assuming this as the consequence of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Markhotok

In this paper I review some recent, interlinked, work undertaken using cosmological perturbation theory -- a powerful technique for modelling inhomogeneities in the Universe. The common theme which underpins these pieces of work is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Adam J. Christopherson

This research presents a new turbulence generation method based on stochastic wavelets and tests its various properties in both homogeneous and inhomogeneous turbulence. Turbulence field can be generated with less basis compared to previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Yifan Du , Guang Lin

Theoretical approaches to low-frequency magnetized turbulence in collisionless and weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas are reviewed. The proper starting point for an analytical description of these plasmas is kinetic theory, not fluid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , W. Dorland

Laminar-turbulent pattern formation is a distinctive feature of the intermittency regime in subcritical plane shear flows. By performing extensive numerical simulations of the plane channel flow, we show that the pattern emerges from a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-16 Pavan V. Kashyap , Yohann Duguet , Olivier Dauchot

Magnetic field amplification is an integral part of the process of particle acceleration at non-relativistic shocks. It is necessary to reach the maximum energies required by observations, especially in supernova remnants, thought to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Antonio Capanema , Pasquale Blasi , Emanuele Sobacchi

An exact analogy of electromagnetic fields and particles can be found in continuum mechanics of a turbulent perfect fluid with voids. Deviations of the turbulence from a homogeneous isotropic state correspond to electromagnetic fields: with…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Valery P. Dmitriyev

We investigate the vorticity of the IGM velocity field on large scales with cosmological hydrodynamic simulation of the concordance model of LCDM. We show that the vorticity field is significantly increasing with time as it can effectively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-27 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng , Li-Zhi Fang

Turbulent plasma motion is common in the universe, and invoked in solar flares to drive effective acceleration leading to high energy electrons. Unresolved mass motions are frequently detected in flares from extreme ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Wenzhi Ruan , Limei Yan , Rony Keppens

Density gradients aligned at an angle to pressure gradients result in baroclinic torque in fluid flows, generating vorticity. In this work, we study the vorticity generated by the baroclinic torque exerted by the interaction of pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-07 Joaquim P. Jossy , Prateek Gupta

We investigate the interaction of nonthermal ions (protons and nuclei) accelerated in an ultrarelativistic blastwave with the pre-existing magnetic field of the medium into which the blastwave propagates. While particle acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sean M. Couch , Milos Milosavljevic , Ehud Nakar

The properties of rotating turbulence driven by precession are studied using direct numerical simulations and analysis of the underlying dynamical processes in Fourier space. The study is carried out in the local rotating coordinate frame,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-04 F. Pizzi , G. Mamatsashvili , A. J. Barker , A. Giesecke , F. Stefani

The main observational evidence for turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) and molecular clouds is the power-law energy spectrum for velocity fluctuations, E(k) \propto k^{\alpha}. The Kolmogorov scaling exponent, \alpha=-5/3, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Kevlahan , Ralph E. Pudritz

Turbulence structure resulting from multi-fluid or multi-species, variable-density isotropic turbulence interaction with a Mach 2 shock is studied using turbulence-resolving shock-capturing simulations and Eulerian (grid) and Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yifeng Tian , Farhad A. Jaberi , Daniel Livescu

The objective of the present study is to develop a basic understanding of the interaction of shock waves with density inhomogeneities. We consider here the particular instance of a planar air shock impinging on a spherical water-droplet and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Luc Biasiori-Poulanges , Hazem El-Rabii