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Kinetic plasma theory is used to generate synthetic spacecraft data to analyze and interpret the compressible fluctuations in the inertial range of solar wind turbulence. The kinetic counterparts of the three familiar linear MHD wave…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. G. Klein , G. G. Howes , J. M. TenBarge , S. D. Bale , C. H. K. Chen , C. S. Salem

The shoaling of high-amplitude Internal Solitary Waves (ISWs) of depression in the South China Sea (SCS) is examined through large-scale parallel turbulence-resolving high-accuracy/resolution simulations. A select, near-isobath-normal,…

We present a model for the non-thermal emission from a colliding-wind binary. Relativistic protons and electrons are assumed to be accelerated through diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) at the global shocks bounding the wind-wind collision…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 J. M. Pittard , G. S. Vila , G. E. Romero

Non-thermal emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets extends up-to large scales in-spite of them being prone to a slew of magneto-hydrodynamic instabilities. The main focus of this study is to understand the impact of MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Nikhil Borse , Sriyasriti Acharya , Bhargav Vaidya , Dipanjan Mukherjee , Gianluigi Bodo , Paola Rossi , Andrea Mignone

Kinetic simulations have demonstrated that three-dimensional reconnection in collisionless regimes proceeds through the formation and interaction of magnetic flux ropes, which are generated due to the growth of tearing instabilities at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Cihan Akcay , William Daughton , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Yi-Hsin Liu

We investigate the structure and X-ray emission from the colliding stellar winds in massive star binaries. We find that the opening angle of the contact discontinuity (CD) is overestimated by several formulae in the literature at very small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. M. Pittard , B. Dawson

The streamwise roll and streak structure (RSS) is prominent in observations of the planetary boundary layer in the atmosphere and ocean and in unstratified wall-bounded shear flows. Although the RSS in these systems is structurally similar,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-16 Eojin Kim , Brian F. Farrell

Debris discs are traditionally studied using two distinct types of numerical models: statistical particle-in-a-box codes to study their collisional and size distribution evolution, and dynamical N-body models to study their spatial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Philippe Thebault

The main aim of this submission is to investigate the effects of some parameters like wave number, shear velocity, magnetic field and temperature for the growth rate of the magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) with incessant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Huseyin Cavus , G. A. Hoshoudy

Fast reconnection operating in magnetically dominated plasmas is often invoked in models for magnetar giant flares, for magnetic dissipation in pulsar winds, or to explain the gamma-ray flares observed in the Crab nebula, hence its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 L. Del Zanna , E. Papini , S. Landi , M. Bugli , N. Bucciantini

Using two-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations, we explore the nonlinear "interruption" of standing and traveling shear-Alfv\'en waves in collisionless plasmas. Interruption involves a self-generated pressure anisotropy removing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 J. Squire , M. W. Kunz , E. Quataert , A. A. Schekochihin

We present results from a suite of three-dimensional global hydrodynamic simulations which show that spiral density waves propagating in circumstellar disks are unstable to the growth of a parametric instability that leads to break-down of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Jaehan Bae , Richard P. Nelson , Lee Hartmann , Samuel Richard

We perform fully general relativistic simulations of rotating stellar core collapse in three spatial dimension. A parametric equation of state is adopted following Dimmelmeier et al. The early stage of the collapse is followed by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaru Shibata , Yu-ichirou Sekiguchi

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

Strong waves can mediate a shock transition between a pulsar wind and its surroundings, playing the role of an extended precursor, in which the energy is effectively transferred from fields to non-thermal particles. The damping of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Iwona Mochol , John G. Kirk

We study the effects of rotation on the dynamics, energetics and Ni-56 production of Pair Instability Supernova explosions by performing rotating two-dimensional ("2.5-D") hydrodynamics simulations. We calculate the evolution of eight low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Chatzopoulos , J. C. Wheeler , S. M. Couch

Line-driven wind instability is expected to cause small-scale wind inhomogeneities, X-ray emission, and wind line profile variability. The instability can already develop around the sonic point if it is initiated close to the photosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jiri Krticka , Achim Feldmeier

We have studied head-on collisions between equal-mass, mildly supersonic (Mach number 1.5) HI clouds, in a standard Two-phase ISM (T_cl = 74 K, n_cl = 22 cm^-3, \chi = 100). We explore the role of various factors, including the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Francesco Miniati , T. W. Jones , Andrea Ferrara , Dongsu Ryu

The complex interaction between shocks and plasma turbulence is extremely important to address crucial features of energy conversion in a broad range of astrophysical systems. We study the interaction between a supercritical, perpendicular…

In the solar wind electron velocity distributions reveal two counter-moving populations which may induce electromagnetic (EM) beaming instabilities known as heat flux instabilities. Depending on plasma parameters two distinct branches of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 S. M. Shaaban , M. Lazar , S. Poedts