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Rarefied hypersonic bow shocks over blunt bodies inflate as the Knudsen number increases, but it remains unclear whether this inflation is a simple shift and broadening of one common shock layer or a multi-scale change of the macroscopic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ehsan Roohi , Ahmad Shoja-Sani

Collisionless shock waves are one of the main forms of energy conversion in space plasmas. They can directly or indirectly drive other universal plasma processes such as magnetic reconnection, turbulence, particle acceleration and wave…

Fluid flow past one or more solid bodies is a fundamental problem of much practical importance. Standard solutions of simplified problems involving incompressible inviscid irrotational flow past common geometries such as circular cylinders…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-01 Ankur Jain

A long-standing quantum-mechanical puzzle is whether the collapse of the wave function is a real physical process or simply an epiphenomenon. This puzzle lies at the heart of the measurement problem. One way to choose between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-23 A. Yu. Ignatiev

Generation of wave structures by a two-dimensional object (laser beam) moving in a two-dimensional two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with a velocity greater than both sound velocities of the mixture is studied by means of analytical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu. G. Gladush , A. M. Kamchatnov , Z. Shi , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed

When a plane shock hits a wedge head on, it experiences a reflection-diffraction process and then a self-similar reflected shock moves outward as the original shock moves forward in time. Experimental, computational, and asymptotic analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-21 Gui-Qiang Chen , Mikhail Feldman

The paper introduces a method to solve inverse problems for hyperbolic systems where the leading order terms are non-linear. We apply the method to the coupled Einstein-scalar field equations and study the question whether the structure of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Lauri Oksanen , Gunther Uhlmann

We present a novel Bayesian method, referred to as Blobby3D, to infer gas kinematics that mitigates the effects of beam smearing for observations using Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS). The method is robust for regularly rotating galaxies…

The effect of smooth cloud boundaries on the interaction of steady planar shock waves with interstellar clouds is studied using a high-resolution local AMR technique with a second-order accurate axisymmetric Godunov hydrodynamic scheme. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fumitaka Nakamura , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein , Robert T. Fisher

Hubble Space Telescope observations show bright knots of H$\alpha$ emission within outflowing young stellar jets. Velocity variations in the flow create secondary bow shocks that may intersect and lead to enhanced emission. When the bow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-30 Edward C. Hansen , Adam Frank , Patrick Hartigan

Hydrodynamical instabilities and shocks are ubiquitous in astrophysical scenarios. Therefore, an accurate numerical simulation of these phenomena is mandatory to correctly model and understand many astrophysical events, such as Supernovas,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Ruben M. Cabezon , Domingo Garcia-Senz , Joana Figueira

The theory of symmetric-hyperbolic systems is useful for constructing smooth solutions of nonlinear wave equations, and for studying their singularities, including shock waves. We present the main techniques which are required to apply the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Satyanad Kichenassamy

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

We present hydrodynamical simulations, using a 2-D two fluid model, of bow shocks in a representative regime for pulsar wind driven bow-shock nebulae. We also investigate the behaviour of a passive toroidal magnetic field wounded around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Bucciantini

By considering the advection and interaction of the vector momentum flux in highly supersonic spherically diverging winds, we derive a simple analytic description of the asymptotic opening angle of a wind-collision shock cone, in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 K. G. Gayley

We present a Bayesian seismology inversion technique for propagating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) transverse waves observed in coronal waveguides. The technique uses theoretical predictions for the spatial damping of propagating kink waves in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 I. Arregui , A. Asensio Ramos , D. J. Pascoe

The diffuse interstellar medium is dynamic, and its chemistry and evolution is determined by shock fronts as well as photodissociation. Shocks are implied by the supersonic motions and velocity dispersion often statistically called…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 William T. Reach , Carl Heiles

We extend the analytic expressions for polytropic wind-driven bubbles and their shock structures, formulated initially in Koo and McKee 1992(a,b), focusing on spherically symmetric configurations in astrophysical environments with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Dmitrii Zagorulia , Hsien Shang , Ruben Krasnopolsky

We analyze the behavior of shock waves in nonlinear theories of electrodynamics. For this, by use of generalized Hadamard step functions of increasing order, the electromagnetic potential is developed in a series expansion near the shock…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Christoph Minz , Horst-Heino von Borzeszkowski , Thoralf Chrobok , Gerold Schellstede

Far-infrared Herschel/PACS images at 70 and 160 micron of a sample of 78 Galactic evolved stars are used to study the (dust) emission structures, originating from stellar wind-ISM interaction. In addition, two-fluid hydrodynamical…