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Supersonic turbulent motions are the remarkable properties of interstellar medium. Previous numerical simulations have demonstrated that the thermal instability in a shock-compressed layer produces the supersonic turbulent motion that does…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroshi Koyama , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In this work, we perform numerical simulations of forced two-phase isotropic turbulence to study the stationary states of a two-phase mixture. We first formulate three different approaches to force a two-phase turbulent flow that maintains…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Suhas S Jain , Ahmed Elnahhas

A method of random forcing with a constant power input for two-dimensional gyrokinetic turbulence simulations is developed for the study of stationary plasma turbulence. The property that the forcing term injects the energy at a constant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Ryusuke Numata

A new statistical approach is presented to study the thermal instability process of optically thin unmagnetized plasma. In this approach the time evolution of mass distribution function over temperature is calculated. This function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. F. Illarionov , I. V. Igumenshchev

A roughly constant temperature over a wide range of densities is maintained in molecular clouds through radiative heating and cooling. An isothermal equation of state is therefore frequently employed in molecular cloud simulations. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Pavlovski , M. D. Smith , M. -M. Mac Low

An overview is presented of the main properties of the interstellar medium. Evidence is summarized that the interstellar medium is highly turbulent, driven on different length scales by various energetic processes. Large-scale turbulence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Burkert

We investigate properties of turbulence and turbulent transport of non-inertial particles described in terms of turbulent thermal diffusion in strongly inhomogeneous and anisotropic convection forced by two similar turbulence generators…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-17 E. Zarbib , E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

This paper is a numerical study of the condensation of the warm neutral medium (WNM) into cold neutral medium (CNM) structures under the effect of turbulence and thermal instability. Using low resolution simulations we explored the impact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-09 E. Saury , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , P. Hennebelle , E. Audit , W. Schmidt

Instabilities of fluid flows often generate turbulence. Using extensive direct numerical simulations, we study two-dimensional turbulence driven by a wavenumber-localised instability superposed on stochastic forcing, in contrast to previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 Adrian van Kan , Benjamin Favier , Keith Julien , Edgar Knobloch

Turbulence is ubiquitous in the insterstellar medium and plays a major role in several processes such as the formation of dense structures and stars, the stability of molecular clouds, the amplification of magnetic fields, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Falceta-Goncalves , G. Kowal , E. Falgarone , A. C. -L. Chian

The role of supersonic turbulence in structuring the interstellar medium (ISM) remains an unsettled question. Here, this problem is investigated using a newexact law of compressible isothermal hydrodynamic turbulence, which involves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-14 Renaud Ferrand , Sébastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui , Christoph Federrath

We investigate experimentally phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion of micron-size solid particles in an inhomogeneous convective turbulence forced by one vertically-oriented oscillating grid in an air flow. This effect causes formation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-19 E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii

We review recent results on the nonlinear development of thermal instability in the context of the turbulent atomic interstellar medium (ISM). First, we pre- sent a brief summary of the linear theory, remarking that, in the atomic ISM, the…

We study the experimental properties of exchange flows in a stratified inclined duct (SID), which are simultaneously turbulent, strongly stratified by a mean vertical density gradient, driven by a mean vertical shear, and continuously…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Adrien Lefauve , P. F. Linden

The injection and evolution of turbulence in the intergalactic medium is studied by means of mesh-based hydrodynamical simulations, including a subgrid scale (SGS) model for small-scale unresolved turbulence. The simulations show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-03 L. Iapichino , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Merklein

Precipitation of cold gas due to thermal instability in both galaxy clusters and the circumgalactic medium may regulate AGN feedback. We investigate thermal instability in idealized simulations of the circumgalactic medium with a parameter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Benjamin D. Wibking , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'Shea

To study how supernova feedback structures the turbulent interstellar medium, we construct 3D models of vertically stratified gas stirred by discrete supernova explosions, including vertical gravitational field and parametrized heating and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. K. Ryan Joung , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Astrophysical fluids, including interstellar and interplanetary medium, are magnetized and turbulent. Their appearance, evolution, and overall properties are determined by the magnetic turbulence that stirs it. We argue that examining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Lazarian , A. Beresnyak , H. Yan , M. Opher , Y. Liu

In this paper we show results of numerical simulations for the turbulence in the interstellar medium. These results were obtained using a Riemann solver-free numerical scheme for high-Mach number hyperbolic equations. Here we especially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Kissmann , J. Kleimann , H. Fichtner , R. Grauer

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