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The paper investigates shock-induced vortical flows within inhomogeneous media of nonuniform thermodynamic properties. Numerical simulations are performed using an Eularian type mathematical model for compressible multi-component flow…

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We present 3D hydrodynamic simulations of the adiabatic interaction of a shock with a dense, spherical cloud. We compare how the nature of the interaction changes with the Mach number of the shock, $M$, and the density contrast of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 J. M. Pittard , E. R. Parkin

Shock-driven turbulence is central to astrophysical plasmas in which explosions and compressive driving inject energy through shocks rather than steady stirring. We present three-dimensional, three-temperature (ion, electron, and radiation;…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Stefano Merlini , James R. Beattie , Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

We use a three dimensional hydrodynamical code to simulate the effect of energy injection on cooling flows in the intracluster medium. Specifically, we compare a simulation of a 10$^{15}$ $M_\odot$ cluster with radiative cooling only, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vicent Quilis , Richard G. Bower , Michael L. Balogh

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

A new scenario for the interaction of a jet with a background medium with cold clouds is investigated by means of hydrodynamic turbulence simulations with cooling. The idea is that the cold clouds are overtaken by a radio cocoon and stirred…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Krause

Numerical simulation and analysis are carried out on interactions between a 2D/3D conical shock wave and an axisymmetric boundary layer with reference to the experiment by Kussoy et al., in which the shock was generated by a 15-deg…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-27 Yihui Weng , Qin Li , Guozhuo Tan , Wei Su , Yancheng You

We analyze the shock formation process for the 3d non-isentropic Euler equations with the ideal gas law, in which sounds waves interact with entropy waves to produce vorticity. Building on our theory for isentropic flows in [3,4], we give a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Tristan Buckmaster , Steve Shkoller , Vlad Vicol

We construct steady non-spherical bubbles and drops, which are traveling wave solutions to the axisymmetric two-phase Euler equations with surface tension, whose inner phase is a bounded connected domain. The solutions have a uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-10 David Meyer , Lukas Niebel , Christian Seis

Within the context of a first-order phase transition in the early Universe, we study the collision process for vacuum bubbles expanding in a plasma. The effects of the plasma are simulated by introducing a damping term in the equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Antonio Ferrera , Alejandra Melfo

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

We use three-dimensional simulations to study the statistics of supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds. Our numerical experiments describe driven turbulent flows with an isothermal equation of state, Mach numbers around 10, and various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-18 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan

We report three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of shocks (${\cal M_{\rm shock}}\geq 4$) interacting with fractal multicloud layers. The evolution of shock-multicloud systems consists of four stages: a shock-splitting phase in which…

We present numerical simulations of the adiabatic interaction of a shock with a clumpy region containing many individual clouds. Our work incorporates a sub-grid turbulence model which for the first time makes this investigation feasible.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-03 R. Alūzas , J. M. Pittard , T. W. Hartquist , S. A. E. G. Falle , R. Langton

The dynamics of compressible liquid-vapor flow depends sensitively on the microscale behavior at the phase boundary. We consider a sharp-interface approach, and propose a multiscale model to describe liquid-vapor flow accurately, without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Jim Magiera , Christian Rohde

Consider a $1$D simple small-amplitude solution $(\rho_{(bkg)}, v^1_{(bkg)})$ to the isentropic compressible Euler equations which has smooth initial data, coincides with a constant state outside a compact set, and forms a shock in finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Jonathan Luk , Jared Speck

We present the results of three-dimensional simulations of supersonic Euler turbulence with grid resolutions up to 1024^3 points. Our numerical experiments describe nonmagnetized driven turbulent flows with an isothermal equation of state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Rick Wagner , Michael L. Norman , Paolo Padoan

The present numerical investigation uses well-resolved large-eddy simulations to study the low-frequency unsteady motions observed in shock-wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interactions. Details about the numerical aspects of the simulations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-12 Emile Touber , Neil D. Sandham

The statics and dynamics of a stable, mobile three-dimensional (3D) spatiotemporal vortex light bullet in a cubic-quintic nonlinear medium with a focusing cubic nonlinearity above a critical value and any defocusing quintic nonlinearity is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-14 S K Adhikari

We present 3D hydrodynamic adiabatic simulations of a shock interacting with a dense, elongated cloud. We compare how the nature of the interaction changes with the filament's length and its orientation to the shock, and with the shock Mach…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 J. M. Pittard , K. J. A. Goldsmith
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