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Multiphase outflows, revealed by multi-wavelength observations, are crucial in redistributing gas and metals within and around galaxies. These outflows are often modelled theoretically using wind tunnel simulations of a cold ($\sim 10^4$ K)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-10 Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma , Max Gronke

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

The mass and size distributions are the key characteristics of any astrophysical objects, including the densest clumps comprising the cold phase of multiphase environments. In our recent papers, we showed how individual clouds of various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Tim Waters , Daniel Proga

To better understand the nature of the multiphase material found in outflowing galaxies, we study the evolution of cold clouds embedded in flows of hot and fast material. Using a suite of adaptive-mesh refinement simulations that include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

The evolution of substructure embedded in non-dissipative dark halos is studied through N-body simulations of isolated systems, both in and out of initial equilibrium, complementing cosmological simulations of the growth of structure. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Zhang , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Massimo Stiavelli , Joseph Silk

We use direct numerical simulation to study the temporal evolution of a perturbation localized on the turbulent layer that typically separates a cloud from the surrounding clear air. Across this shearless layer, a turbulent kinetic energy…

In this paper a diffuse-interface model featuring phase change, transition to supercritical conditions, thermal conduction, compressibility effects and shock wave propagation is exploited to deal with the dynamics of a cavitation bubble. At…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Magaletti , Luca Marino , Carlo Massimo Casciola

Mixing by hydrodynamical instabilities plays a key role in cloud-wind interactions, causing cloud destruction in the adiabatic limit and facilitating cloud survival with efficient radiative cooling. However, the rate of mixing in numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Hannah Leary , Helena M. Richie , Evan Schneider

We performed a set of cosmological simulations of major mergers in galaxy clusters to study the evolution of merger shocks and the subsequent injection of turbulence in the post-shock region and in the intra-cluster medium (ICM). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 S. Paul , L. Iapichino , F. Miniati , J. Bagchi , K. Mannheim

Colliding supersonic bulk flows shape observable properties and internal physics of various astrophysical objects, like O-star winds, molecular clouds, galactic sheets, binaries, or gamma-ray bursts. Using numerical simulations, we show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-07 Doris Folini , Rolf Walder , Jean M. Favre

Using self-gravitational hydrodynamical numerical simulations, we investigated the evolution of high-density turbulent molecular clouds swept by a colliding flow. The interaction of shock waves due to turbulence produces networks of thin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kazuhito Dobashi , Tomomi Shimoikura

Cloud-cloud collisions in splash bridges produced in gas-rich disk galaxy collisions offer a brief but interesting environment to study the effects of shocks and turbulence on star formation rates in the diffuse IGM, far from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-19 Travis Yeager , Curtis Struck , Phil Appleton

The magnetohydrodynamic evolution of a dense spherical cloud as it interacts with a strong planar shock is studied, as a model for shock interactions with density inhomogeneities in the interstellar medium. The cloud is assumed to be small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-13 Min-Su Shin , James M. Stone , Gregory F. Snyder

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

Supersonic turbulence is an essential element in understanding how structure within interstellar gas is created and shaped. In the context of star formation, many computational studies show that the mass spectrum of density and velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Ralph E. Pudritz , N. K. -R. Kevlahan

We analyze high resolution simulations of compressible, MHD turbulence with properties resembling conditions in galaxy clusters. The flow is driven to turbulence Mach number $\mathcal{M}_t \sim 1/2$ in an isothermal medium with an initially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 David H. Porter , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu

In dense molecular clouds collisions between dust grains alter the ISM-dust size distribution. We study this process by inserting the results from detailed numerical simulations of two colliding dust aggregates into a coagulation model that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. W. Ormel , D. Paszun , C. Dominik , A. G. G. M. Tielens

We present the results from three dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of decaying high-speed turbulence in dense molecular clouds. We compare our results, which include a detailed cooling function, molecular hydrogen chemistry and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Georgi Pavlovski , Michael D. Smith , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Alexander Rosen

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

Wide-angle outflows, or winds, are associated with a broad range of astrophysical systems, including protostars, massive stars, X-ray binaries, tidal disruption events (TDEs), luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs), and starburst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Benjamin Amend , Christopher Lagomarsino , Eric R. Coughlin , Jonathan Zrake