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Supersonic turbulence fragments the interstellar medium into dense sheets, filaments, cores and large low density voids. The turbulence is driven on large scales, probably predominantly by supernovae. The scaling properties of supersonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aake Nordlund , Paolo Padoan

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

We introduce the Stars and MUltiphase Gas in GaLaxiEs -- SMUGGLE model, an explicit and comprehensive stellar feedback model for the moving-mesh code arepo. This novel sub-resolution model resolves the multiphase gas structure of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Federico Marinacci , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Paul Torrey , Volker Springel

The interstellar medium of galaxies is governed by supersonic turbulence, which likely controls the star formation rate (SFR) and the initial mass function (IMF). Interstellar turbulence is non-universal, with a wide range of Mach numbers,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-13 Christoph Federrath , Supratik Banerjee

We discuss the temperature distribution in a two-dimensional, thermally unstable numerical simulation of the warm and cold gas in the Galactic disk, including the magnetic field, self-gravity, the Coriolis force, stellar energy injection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Gazol , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , J. Scalo

Observations have suggested substantial departures from pressure equilibrium in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the plane of the Galaxy, even on scales under 50 pc. Nevertheless, multi-phase models of the ISM assume at least locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Dinshaw Balsara , Miguel A. Avillez , Jongsoo Kim

The gas in galaxy clusters is heated by shock compression through accretion (outer shocks) and mergers (inner shocks). These processes additionally produce turbulence. To analyse the relation between the thermal and turbulent energies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Wolfram Schmidt , Jan F. Engels , Jens C. Niemeyer , Ann S. Almgren

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

We discuss HD and MHD compressible turbulence as a cloud-forming and cloud-structuring mechanism in the ISM. Results from a numerical model of the turbulent ISM at large scales suggest that the phase-like appearance of the medium, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Thierry Passot

A new mean-field theory of turbulent convection is developed. This theory predicts the convective wind instability in a shear-free turbulent convection which causes formation of large-scale semi-organized fluid motions in the form of cells…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , S. Zilitinkevich

We present models of turbulent mixing at the boundaries between hot (T~10^{6-7} K) and warm material (T~10^4 K) in the interstellar medium, using a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical code, with radiative cooling. The source of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Esquivel , R. A. Benjamin , A. Lazarian , J. Cho , S. N. Leitner

We derive an analytic prediction for the star formation rate in environments ranging from normal galactic disks to starbursts and ULIRGs in terms of the observables of those systems. Our calculation is based on three premises: (1) star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Mark R. Krumholz , Christopher F. McKee

This paper exposes a novel exploratory formalism, which end goal is the numerical simulation of the dynamics of a cloud of particles weakly or strongly coupled with a turbulent fluid. Giventhe large panel of expertise of the list of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Ludovic Goudenège , Adam Larat , Julie Llobell , Marc Massot , David Mercier , Olivier Thomine , Aymeric Vié

Disentangling turbulence and bulk motions in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters is inherently ambiguous, as the plasma is continuously stirred by different processes on disparate scales. This poses a serious problem in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-13 Lorenzo Maria Perrone , Thomas Berlok , Ewald Puchwein , Christoph Pfrommer

The majority of stars are thought to form in clusters. Cluster formation in dense clumps of molecular clouds is strongly influenced, perhaps controlled, by supersonic turbulence. We have previously shown that the turbulence in regions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

Dense cores inherit turbulent motions from the interstellar medium in which they form. As a tool for comparison to both simulations and observations, it is valuable to construct theoretical core models that can relate their internal density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-05 Sanghyuk Moon , Eve C. Ostriker

Both simulations and observations have shown that turbulence is a pervasive phenomenon in cosmic scenarios, yet it is particularly difficult to model numerically due to its intrinsically multiscale character which demands high resolutions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

The amount of turbulent pressure in galaxy clusters is still debated, especially as for the impact of the dynamical state and the hydro-method used for simulations. We study the turbulent pressure fraction in the intra cluster medium of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Frederick Groth , Milena Valentini , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , David Vallés-Pérez , Klaus Dolag

The interstellar medium of the Milky Way is multi-phase, magnetized and turbulent. Turbulence in the interstellar medium produces a global cascade of random gas motions, spanning scales ranging from 100 parsecs to 1000 kilometres.…

Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine