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In the hydrodynamic framework of heavy-ion collisions, elliptic flow, $v_2$, is sensitive to the quadrupole deformation, $\beta$, of the colliding ions. This enables one to test whether the established knowledge on the low-energy structure…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-04 Giuliano Giacalone , Jiangyong Jia , Chunjian Zhang

The (3+1)-dimensional ideal hydrodynamics is used to simulate collisions of gold nuclei with bombarding energies from 1 to 160 GeV per nucleon. The initial state is represented by two cold Lorentz-boosted nuclei. Two equations of state:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 I. N. Mishustin , A. V. Merdeev , L. M. Satarov

We consider the hydrodynamic effect of small particles on the dynamics of a much larger particle moving normal to a planar wall in a highly bidisperse dilute colloidal suspension of spheres. The gap $h_0$ between the large particle and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz

Emission in many astrophysical transients originates from a shocked fluid. A central engine typically produces an outflow with varying speeds, leading to internal collisions within the outflow at finite distances from the source. Each such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Jonathan Granot , Paz Beniamini

We study the collision dynamics of surfactant-laden droplets and compare it with that of pure water droplets, with a focus on the bridge growth rate, energy balance, and disk dynamics, distinguishing the cases of head-on and off-centre…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-15 Soheil Arbabi , Piotr Deuar , Rachid Bennacer , Zhizhao Che , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

Collisional growth of tiny particles is a fundamental process governing the growth of cloud droplets and the aggregation of ash particles in volcanic plumes, with direct implications for precipitation formation, cloud lifetime, and ash…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-01 Srikumar Warrier , Anubhab Roy , Pijush Patra

We parametrize the transverse momentum distribution of outgoing hadrons in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions as a superposition of boosted thermal distributions. In this approach, which generalizes the conventional blast wave,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 Anthony Guillen , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Questions regarding energy dissipation in astrophysical jets are open to date, despite of numerous attempts to limit the diversity of models. Some of the most popular models assume that energy is transferred to particles via internal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-24 Patryk Pjanka , Camilia Demidem , Alexandra Veledina

We present a molecular dynamics simulation of shock waves propagating in dense deuterium with the electron force field method [J. T. Su and W. A. Goddard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185003 (2007)], which explicitly takes the excitation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Hao Liu , Yin Zhang , Wei Kang , Ping Zhang , Huiling Duan , X. T. He

Our recently developed 2+1 (boost-invariant) hydrodynamic model has been presented and used to i) describe the soft hadronic data collected in the central region of the relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and ii) to make predictions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-02 Mikolaj Chojnacki

In high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, a transient state of thermalized, hot and dense matter governed by Quantum Chromodynamics is produced. Properties of this state are reflected in the bulk low transverse momentum (P_T) hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Thorsten Renk

The collective behaviour of hadronic particles has been observed in high multiplicity proton-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as well as in deuteron-gold collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-24 C. Shen , J. -F. Paquet , G. S. Denicol , S. Jeon , C. Gale

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

We consider dense rapid shear flow of inelastically colliding hard disks. Navier-Stokes granular hydrodynamics is applied accounting for the recent finding \cite{Luding,Khain} that shear viscosity diverges at a lower density than the rest…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Evgeniy Khain

The global observable distributions of nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energy are studied. It is shown that these distributions are sensitive to interaction dynamics and can be used to investigate the evolution of dense nuclear matter.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-15 M. V. Savina , S. V. Shmatov , N. V. Slavin , P. I. Zarubin

The ballistic deposition of particles by taking hydrodynamic interactions (HI) into account has been studied by means of computer simulations. The radial distribution function of the assembly of particles deposited on a plane has been…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Pagonabarraga , P. Wojtaszczyk , J. M. Rubi , B. Senger , J. -C. Voegel , P. Schaaf

We analyze the proton-lead collisions at the LHC energy of 5.02TeV in the three-stage approach, previously used to successfully describe the relativistic A-A collisions. The approach consists of the early phase, modeled with the Glauber…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-15 Piotr Bozek , Wojciech Broniowski

The dynamical correlations of a model consisting of particles constrained on the line and interacting with a nearest--neighbour Lennard--Jones potential are computed by molecular--dynamics simulations. A drastic qualitative change of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefano Lepri , Paolo Sandri , Antonio Politi

Shock wave formation and propagation in two-dimensional granular materials under vertical vibration are studied by digital high speed photography. The steepen density and temperature wave fronts form near the plate as granular layer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kai Huang , Guoqing Miao , Peng Zhang , Yi Yun , Rongjue Wei

Collisions of asymmetric planar shocks in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are studied via their dual gravitational formulation in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime. The post-collision hydrodynamic flow is found to be very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Sebastian Waeber , Andreas Rabenstein , Andreas Schäfer , Laurence G. Yaffe