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We investigate the dynamics of self-gravitating, spherically-symmetric distributions of fluid through numerical means. In particular, systems involving neutron star models driven far from equilibrium in the strong-field regime of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott C. Noble

We complete previous investigations on the thermodynamics of self-gravitating systems by studying the grand canonical, grand microcanonical and isobaric ensembles. We also discuss the stability of polytropic spheres in the light of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Chavanis

Symmetry-breaking instability of a laterally uniform granular cluster (strip state) in a prototypical driven granular gas is investigated. The system consists of smooth hard disks in a two-dimensional box, colliding inelastically with each…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Evgeniy Khain , Baruch Meerson

Within $R^2$ gravity, we study the linear stability of strongly gravitating spherically symmetric configurations supported by a polytropic fluid. All calculations are carried out in the Jordan frame. It is demonstrated that, as in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-29 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

It is known that a finite-size homogeneous granular fluid develops an hydrodynamic-like instability when dissipation crosses a threshold value. This instability is analyzed in terms of modified hydrodynamic equations: first, a source term…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Soto , M. Mareschal , M. Malek Mansour

We use a differential constitutive equation to model the flow of a viscoelastic flow in a cross-slot geometry, which is known to exhibit bistability above a critical flow rate. The novelty lies in two asymmetric modifications to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-19 Kristian Ejlebjerg Jensen , Peter Szabo , Fridolin Okkels

We subject to scrutiny the physical consistency of adopting the perfect-gas thermodynamic model within self-gravitation circumstances by studying the fluid statics of a self-gravitating isothermal sphere with the van der Waals'…

This paper investigates instability ranges of a cylindrically symmetric collapsing stellar object in Brans-Dicke theory of gravity. For this purpose, we use perturbation approach in the modified field equations as well as dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 M. Sharif , Rubab Manzoor

In the framework of gravothermal evolution of an ideal monatomic fluid, I examine the dynamical instability of the fluid sphere in ($N$+1) dimensions by exploiting Chandrasekhar's criterion to each quasistatic equilibrium along the sequence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-05 Wei-Xiang Feng

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous cooling state is carried out to identify the conditions for stability of a granular gas of rough hard spheres. The description is based on the results…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-10 Vicente Garzó , Andrés Santos , Gilberto M. Kremer

We study the dynamical instability of a spherically symmetric anisotropic fluid which collapses adiabatically under the condition of vanishing expansion scalar. The Newtonian and post Newtonian regimes are considered in detail. It is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-18 L. Herrera , G. Le Denmat , N. O. Santos

This paper is devoted to investigate the cylindrical collapse of an anisotropic fluid in $f(R)$ gravity. For this purpose, the viscous charged anisotropic fluid dissipating energy with heat flow and shear is assumed. We use the perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-07 M. Farasat Shamir , M. Atif Fayyaz

We complete classical investigations concerning the dynamical stability of an infinite homogeneous gaseous medium described by the Euler-Poisson system or an infinite homogeneous stellar system described by the Vlasov-Poisson system (Jeans…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We revisit the classic problem of the stability of drops and jets held by surface tension, while regarding the compressibility of bulk fluids and spatial dimensions as free parameters. By mode analysis, it is shown that there exists a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-24 Umpei Miyamoto

Thermodynamical stability of fluid spheres is studied in the presence of a cosmological constant, both in the Newtonian limit, as well as in General Relativity. In all cases, an increase of the cosmological constant tends to stabilize the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-22 Zacharias Roupas

The presented paper is an attempt to investigate the dynamical states of an hydrodynamical isothermal turbulent self-gravitating system using some powerful tools of the classical thermodynamics. Our main assumption, inspired by the work of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-21 Sava Donkov , Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Todor V. Veltchev

We study the longitudinal instabilities of two interpenetrating fluids interacting only through gravity. When one of the constituents is of relatively low density, it is possible to have a band of unstable wave numbers well separated from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-06 A. R. R. Casti , P. J. Morrison , E. A. Spiegel

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of stellar self-gravitating system arising from the Tsallis generalized entropy. In particular, physical interpretation of the thermodynamic instability, as has been revealed by previous…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Taruya , M. Sakagami

Linear theory is used to determine the stability of the self-gravitating, rapidly (and nonuniformly) rotating, two-dimensional, and collisional particulate disk against small-amplitude gravity perturbations. A gas-kinetic theory approach is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evgeny Griv , Michael Gedalin , David Eichler , Chi Yuan

The recently proposed definition of complexity for static and spherically symmetric self--gravitating systems [1], is extended to the fully dynamic situation. In this latter case we have to consider not only the complexity factor of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 L. Herrera , A. Di Prisco , J. Ospino