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We consider a differentially rotating, 2D stellar disk perturbed by two steady state spiral density waves moving at different patterns speeds. Our investigation is based on direct numerical integration of initially circular test-particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Minchev , A. C. Quillen

It had been shown that the transition from a rigidly rotating spiral wave to a meandering spiral wave is via a Hopf bifurcation. Many studies have shown that these bifurcations are supercritical, but we present numerical studies which show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-22 S. Sehgal , A. J. Foulkes

We have obtained deep near-infrared K_s-band William Herschel Telescope observations of a sample of 15 nearby spiral galaxies having a range of Hubble types and apparent bar strengths. The near-infrared light distributions are converted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. L. Block , R. Buta , J. H. Knapen , D. M. Elmegreen , B. G. Elmegreen , I. Puerari

We present a dynamical study of the effect of the bar and spiral arms on the simulated orbits of open clusters in the Galaxy. Specifically, this work is devoted to the puzzling presence of high-altitude open clusters in the Galaxy. For this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-18 L. A. Martinez-Medina , B. Pichardo , E. Moreno , A. Peimbert , H. Velazquez

The migration of active particles in slowly moving, crowded, and heterogeneous media is fundamental to various biological processes and technological applications, such as cargo transport. In this study, we numerically investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-04 Meng-Yuan Li , Ning Zheng , Yan-Wei Li

We numerically examine the manipulation of vortices interacting with a moving trap representing a magnetic force tip translating across a superconducting sample containing a periodic array of pinning sites. As a function of the tip velocity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-04 X. Ma , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We consider a two-dimensional, tangentially active, semi-flexible, self-avoiding polymer to find a dynamical re-entrant transition between motile open chains and spinning achiral spirals with increasing activity. Utilizing probability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-08 Chitrak Karan , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Debasish Chaudhuri

In this series of papers, we propose a theory to explain the formation and properties of rings and spirals in barred galaxies. The building blocks of these structures are orbits guided by the manifolds emanating from the unstable Lagrangian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Athanassoula , M. Romero-Gomez , A. Bosma , J. J. Masdemont

We use a high resolution cosmological zoom simulation of a Milky Way-sized halo to study the observable features in velocity and metallicity space associated with the dynamical influence of spiral arms. For the first time, we demonstrate…

We consider the FitzHugh-Nagumo system on undulated cylindrical surfaces modeling nerve axons. We show that for sufficiently small radii and for initial conditions close to radially symmetrical ones, (i) the solutions converge to their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Georgia Karali , Konstantinos Tzirakis , Israel Michael Sigal

The flow of information in networked systems composed of multiple interacting elements strongly depends on the level of connectivity among these elements. Sparse connectivity often hinders the emergence of states in which information is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-25 Muhittin Cenk Eser , Everton S. Medeiros , Mustafa Riza , Maximilian Engel

Spiral waves are a ubiquitous feature of the nonequilibrium dynamics of a great variety of excitable systems. In the limit of a large separation in timescale between fast excitation and slow recovery, one can reduce the spiral problem to…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

Spiral waves arise in many biological, chemical, and physiological systems. The kinematical model can be used to describe the motion of the spiral arms approximated as curves in the plane. For this model, there appeared some results in the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chu-Pin Lo , Nedialko S. Nedialkov , Juan-Ming Yuan

Spiral arms greatly affect gas flows and star formation in disk galaxies. We use local three-dimensional simulations of the vertically-stratified, self-gravitating, differentially-rotating, interstellar medium (ISM) subject to a stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 Woong-Tae Kim , Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

The interstellar medium has a highly filamentary and hierarchical structure, which may play a significant role in star formation. A systematical study on the large-scale filaments towards their physical parameters, distribution, structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-06 Yifei Ge , Ke Wang

We analyze two-armed global spiral density wave modes generated by gravitational instability in razor-thin, non-viscous, self-gravitating protoplanetary disks to understand the dependence of spiral arm morphology (pitch angle $\alpha$ and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Enze Chen , Si-Yue Yu , Luis C. Ho

[Abridged] Aims. We study the properties of filamentary structures from the ATLASGAL survey. Methods. We use the DisPerSE algorithm to identify spatially coherent structures located across the inner-Galaxy (300 < l < 60 and |b| < 1.5).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Guang-Xing Li , J. S. Urquhart , S. Leurini , T. Csengeri , F. Wyrowski , K. M. Menten , F. Schuller

Spirals are common in Nature: the snail's shell and the ordering of seeds in the sunflower are amongst the most widely-known occurrences. While these are static, dynamic spirals can also be observed in excitable systems such as heart…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Patrick Boily

This paper continues a series reporting different aspects of the behaviour of disc galaxy simulations that support spiral instabilities. The focus in this paper is to demonstrate how linear spiral instabilities saturate and decay, and how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 J A Sellwood , R G Carlberg

Chirality organize living and active matter systems into striking collective states, yet the principles that govern chiral ordering in open systems, where elements are continuously added or removed, remain unclear. A mutant strain of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-21 Masayuki Hayakawa , Biplab Bhattacherjee , Hidekazu Kuwayama , Tatsuo Shibata