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A core-collapse supernova is generated by the passage of a shockwave through the envelope of a massive star, where the shock wave is initially launched from the ``bounce'' of the neutron star formed during the collapse of the stellar core.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-14 Suman Kumar Kundu , Eric R. Coughlin

We investigate the behaviour of low angular momentum viscous accretion flows around black holes using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Earlier, it has been observed that in a significant part of the energy and angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-20 Santabrata Das , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Anuj Nandi , Diego Molteni

We present the results of several numerical simulations of two dimensional axi-symmetric accretion flows around black holes using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in the presence of cooling effects. We consider both stellar black holes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , K. Acharyya , D. Molteni

We investigate the linear stability of a shocked accretion flow onto a black hole in the adiabatic limit. Our linear analyses and numerical calculations show that, despite the post-shock deceleration, the shock is generally unstable to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wei-Min Gu , Ju-Fu Lu

We summarize the current status of the turbulent model of star formation in turbulent molecular clouds. In this model, clouds, clumps and cores form a hierarchy of nested density fluctuations caused by the turbulence, and either collapse or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Supersonic interacting flows occurring in phenomena such as protostellar jets give rise to strong shocks, and have been demonstrated in several laboratory experiments. To study such colliding flows, we use the AstroBEAR AMR code to conduct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 R. N. Markwick , A. Frank , J. Carroll-Nellenback , E. G. Blackman , P. M. Hartigan , S. V. Lebedev , D. R. Russel , J. W. D. Halliday , L. G. Suttle

With the goal of providing more accurate and realistic estimates of the secular behavior of the mass accretion and drag rates in the "common-envelope" scenario encountered when a black hole or a neutron star moves in the stellar envelope of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Luciano Rezzolla

Supersonic isothermal turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. This work presents high-resolution AREPO hydrodynamical simulations of isolated shocks moving through supersonic turbulence to study the development and evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael M. Foley , Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart , Lars Hernquist , Alyssa Goodman

We investigated the instability of advective accretion flow as a consequence of angular momentum transfer in one-dimensional, quasi-spherical transonic accretion flow around a non-rotating black hole. The code is designed to include the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-09 Seong-Jae Lee , Dongsu Ryu , Indranil Chattopadhyay

Neutrino transport in spherically symmetric models of stellar core collapse and bounce has achieved a technically complete level, rewarded by the agreement among independent groups that a multi-dimensional treatment of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Liebendoerfer , U. -L. Pen , C. Thompson

We present an overview of two-dimensional (2D) core-collapse supernova simulations employing neutrino transport scheme by the isotropic diffusion source approximation. We study 101 solar-metallicity, 247 ultra metal-poor, and 30 zero-metal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Ko Nakamura , Tomoya Takiwaki , Takami Kuroda , Kei Kotake

We propose self-similar shocked flow models for certain dynamical evolution phases of young stellar objects (YSOs), `champagne flows' of H {\sevenrm II} regions surrounding OB stars and shaping processes of planetary nebulae (PNe). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yue Shen , Yu-Qing Lou

When the core of a massive star collapses, neutrino heating can energize the stalled accretion shock, leading to a successful supernova. The critical condition that characterizes the transition from accretion to explosion is a central topic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 David Pochik , Todd Thompson

At the point of pinch-off of an underwater air bubble, the speed of water rushing in diverges. Previous studies that assumed radial flow throughout showed that the local axial shape is two smoothly connected, slender cones that transition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-31 Daniel C. Herbst , Wendy W. Zhang

Shock waves in molecular clouds should evolve into continuous or C-type structures due to the magnetic field and ion-neutral friction. We here determine whether and how this is achieved through plane-parallel numerical simulations using an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael D. Smith , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Theoretical studies of transonic accretion onto black holes reveal a wide range of possible solutions, broadly classified into smooth flows and flows featuring shocks. Accretion solutions that involve the formation of shocks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Raj Kishor Joshi , Antonios Tsokaros , Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Ramiz Aktar

Depending on the astrophysical source and its environment, the accretion flows can exhibit a variety of behaviors and characteristics in accordance with the type of solutions. We study low-angular-momentum accretion flows onto black holes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal , Yosuke Mizuno

Three-dimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae are granting new insight into the as-yet uncertain mechanism that drives successful explosions. While there is still debate about whether explosions are obtained more easily in 3D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Sean M. Couch , Evan P. O'Connor

Core-collapse supernovae can display evidence of interaction with pre-existing, circumstellar shells of material by rebrightening and forming spectral lines, and can even change types as Hydrogen appears in previously Hydrogen-poor spectra.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Eric R. Coughlin , Jonathan Zrake

Considering general relativistic, two-dimensional (2D) supernova (SN) explosion models of progenitor stars between 8.1 and 27 solar masses, we systematically analyze the properties of the neutrino emission from core collapse and bounce to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 B. Müller , H. -Th. Janka