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With Hubble Space Telescope Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 observations of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, we examine the interaction of an interstellar cloud with the blast wave on physical scales of 10^15 cm. The shock front is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 N. A. Levenson , James R. Graham

This paper describes 3D simulations of the formation of collapsing cold clumps via thermal instability inside a larger cloud complex. The initial condition was a diffuse atomic, stationary, thermally unstable, 200pc diameter spherical cloud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 C. J. Wareing , S. A. E. G. Falle , J. M. Pittard

We study collisions between two strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas clouds. We observe exotic nonlinear hydrodynamic behavior, distinguished by the formation of a very sharp and stable density peak as the clouds collide and subsequent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-18 James Joseph , John E. Thomas , Manas Kulkarni , Alexander G. Abanov

Considering turbulence is crucial to understanding clouds. However, covering all scales involved in the turbulent mixing of clouds with their environment is computationally challenging, urging the development of simpler models to represent…

We present novel numerical simulations investigating the evolution of liquid droplets into bag-like structures in turbulent airflows. The droplet bag breakup problem is of significance for many multiphase processes in scientific and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-29 Kaitao Tang , Thomas A. A. Adcock , Wouter Mostert

We simulate the decay of isolated, spherically symmetric droplets in a cosmological phase transition. It has long been posited that such heated droplets of the metastable state could form, and they have recently been observed in 3D…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Daniel Cutting , Essi Vilhonen , David J. Weir

We study the statistics of density for supersonic turbulence in a medium with magnetic pressure larger than the gaseous pressure. This study is motivated by molecular cloud research. Our simulations exhibit clumpy density structures, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Beresnyak , A. Lazarian , J. Cho

We examine simulations of isolated galaxies to analyse the effects of localised feedback on the formation and evolution of molecular clouds. Feedback contributes to turbulence and the destruction of clouds, leading to a population of clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 David J. Williamson , Robert J. Thacker , James Wurster , Brad K. Gibson

We present a set of numerical experiments designed to systematically investigate how turbulence and magnetic fields influence the morphology, energetics, and dynamics of filaments produced in wind-cloud interactions. We cover 3D…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Christoph Federrath , Roland Crocker , Geoffrey Bicknell

We study the structure of shocks in clumpy media, using a multifluid formalism. As expected, shocks broaden as they weaken: for sufficiently weak shocks, no viscous subshock appears in the structure. This has significant implications for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. R. Williams , J. E. Dyson

The diffuse hot medium inside clusters of galaxies typically exhibits turbulent motions whose amplitude increases with radius, as revealed by cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. However, its physical origin remains unclear. It could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin Lau

Bubble-particle collisions in turbulence are central to a variety of processes such as froth flotation. Despite their importance, details of the collision process have not received much attention yet. This is compounded by the sometimes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-16 Timothy T. K. Chan , Chong Shen Ng , Dominik Krug

Galaxies comprise intricate networks of interdependent processes which together govern their evolution. Central among these are the multiplicity of feedback channels, which remain incompletely understood. One outstanding problem is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-11 Brent Tan , Drummond B. Fielding

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

The properties of supersonic isothermal turbulence influence a variety of astrophysical phenomena, including the structure and evolution of star forming clouds. This work presents a simple model for the structure of dense regions in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Brant Robertson , Peter Goldreich

The expansion and collision of two wind-blown superbubbles is investigated numerically. Our models go beyond previous simulations of molecular cloud formation from converging gas flows by exploring this process with realistic flow…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Evangelia Ntormousi , Andreas Burkert , Katharina Fierlinger , Fabian Heitsch

Using 3D MHD simulation with the effects of radiative cooling/heating, chemical reactions, and thermal conduction, we investigate the formation of molecular cloud in the ISM. We consider the formation of molecular cloud by accretion of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Astrophysical gases such as the interstellar-, circumgalactic- or intracluster-medium are commonly multiphase, which poses the question of the structure of these systems. While there are many known processes leading to fragmentation of cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-18 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

We report the results of three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of interactions of overdense, radiatively cooling and adiabatic jets with dense, compact clouds in frontal and off-axis collisions. Calculated for a set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Massive structures like cluster of galaxies, embedded in cosmic filaments, release enormous amount of energy through their interactions. These events are associated with production of Mpc-scale shocks and injection of considerable amount of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-27 S. Paul , L. Iapichino , F. Miniati , J. Bagchi , K. Mannheim