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The ultra-relativistic Euler equations for an ideal gas are described in terms of the pressure, the spatial part of the dimensionless four-velocity and the particle density. Radially symmetric solutions of these equations are studied in two…

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Shocks are ubiquitous in astrophysical sources, many of which involve relativistic bulk motions, leading to the formation of relativistic shocks. Such relativistic shocks have so far been studied mainly in one dimension, for simplicity, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Prasanta Bera , Jonathan Granot , Michael Rabinovich , Paz Beniamini

In this paper, we study the uniqueness of the steady 1-D shock solutions for the inviscid compressible Euler system in a finite nozzle via asymptotic analysis for physical parameters. The parameters for the heat conductivity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Beixiang Fang , Su Jiang , Piye Sun

The behaviour of the turbulent Prandtl number ($Pr_t$) for buoyancy-affected flows near a vertical surface is investigated as an extension study of {Gibson \& Leslie, \emph{Int. Comm. Heat Mass Transfer}, Vol. 11, pp. 73-84 (1984)}. By…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-26 Xiaowei Xu , Andrew S. H. Ooi , Richard D. Sandberg

This paper concerns the existence and location of three-dimensional axisymmetric transonic shocks with large swirl velocity for shock solutions of the steady compressible full Euler system in a cylindrical nozzle with prescribed receiver…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Beixiang Fang , Xin Gao , Wei Xiang , Qin Zhao

We compare the results of numerical simulations of thin and quasi-spherical (thick) accretion flows with existing analytical solutions. We use a Lagrangian code based on the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme and an Eulerian finite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Diego Molteni , Dongsu Ryu , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

This paper aims at obtaining, by means of integral transforms, analytical approximations in short times of solutions to boundary value problems for the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation with constant coefficients. The general form…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Anani Kwassi

This paper concerns the large Reynold number limits and asymptotic behaviors of solutions to the 2D steady Navier-Stokes equations in an infinitely long convergent channel. It is shown that for a general convergent infinitely long nozzle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Chen Gao , Zhouping Xin

We consider the classical compressible Euler's Equations in three space dimensions with an arbitrary equation of state, and whose initial data corresponds to a constant state outside a sphere. Under suitable restriction on the size of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Demetrios Christodoulou , Shuang Miao

Turbulent motions enhance the diffusion of large-scale flows and temperature gradients. Such diffusion is often parameterized by coefficients of turbulent viscosity ($\nu_{\rm t}$) and turbulent thermal diffusivity ($\chi_{\rm t}$) that are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-07 Petri J. Käpylä , Nishant K. Singh

A consistent kinetic modeling and discretization strategy for compressible flows across all Prandtl numbers and specific heat ratios is developed using the quasi-equilibrium approach within two of the most widely used double-distribution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 R. M. Strässle , S. A. Hosseini , I. V. Karlin

We provide a `user guide' to the literature of the past twenty years concerning the modeling and approximation of discontinuous solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic systems that admit small-scale dependent shock waves. We cover several classes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Philippe G. LeFloch , Siddhartha Mishra

Two aspects of a widely used 1D model of blood flow in a single blood vessel are studied by symmetry analysis, where the variables in the model are the blood pressure and the cross-section area of the blood vessel. As one main result, all…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-12 Stephen C. Anco , Almudena P. Marquez , Tamara M. Garrido , Maria L. Gandarias

We are concerned with the structural stability of conical shocks in the three-dimensional steady supersonic flows past Lipschitz perturbed cones whose vertex angles are less than the critical angle. The flows under consideration are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Jie Kuang , Yongqian Zhang

One of the main objectives of science is the recognition of a general pattern in a particular phenomenon in some particular regime. In this work, this is achieved with the analytical expression for the optimal protocol that minimizes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Pierre Nazé

A new type of self-similarity is found in the problem of a plane-parallel, ultra-relativistic blast wave, propagating in a powerlaw density profile of the form $\rho \propto z^{-k}$. Self-similar solutions of the first kind can be found for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-14 Tamar Faran , Andrei Gruzinov , Re'em Sari

The Boltzmann equation models gas dynamics in the low density or high Mach number regime, using a statistical description of molecular interactions. Planar shock wave solutions have been constructed for the Boltzmann equation for hard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Dominic Wynter

In this paper, we find various analytic (1+3)D solutions to relativistic ideal hydrodynamic equations based on embedding of known low-dimensional scaling solutions. We first study a class of flows with 2D Hubble Embedding, for which a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Shu Lin , Jinfeng Liao

We consider the solutions of the Guderley problem, consisting of an imploding strong shock wave in an ideal gas with a power law initial density profile. The self-similar solutions, and specifically the similarity exponent which determines…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-07 Itamar Giron , Shmuel Balberg , Menahem Krief

The solution of self-similar shock dynamics satisfying the inviscid Burgers equation are provided in closed form for planar, cylindrical and spherical problems. The approach follows Lee's method for obtaining self-similar solutions for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-17 Matei Ioan Rădulescu