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In this paper we investigate whether Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), equipped with artificial conductivity, is able to capture the physics of density/energy discontinuities in the case of the so-called shearing layers test, a test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Sander Valcke , Sven De Rijcke , Elke Roediger , Herwig Dejonghe

We describe implementation and tests of sink particle algorithms in the Eulerian grid-based code Athena. Introduction of sink particles enables long-term evolution of systems in which localized collapse occurs, and it is impractical (or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Hao Gong , Eve C. Ostriker

Prediction of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is crucial across various fields, requiring extensive high-fidelity data. However, experimental data are often sparse and noisy, while simulated data may lack credibility due to discrepancies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-13 Jiahao Wu , Yuxin Wu , Xin Li , Guihua Zhang

Methods to solve the relativistic hydrodynamic equations are a key computational kernel in a large number of astrophysics simulations and are crucial to understanding the electromagnetic signals that originate from the merger of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Jackson DeBuhr , Bo Zhang , Matthew Anderson , David Neilsen , Eric W. Hirschmann

Using a new numerical code we have carried out two-dimensional simulations of the nonlinear evolution of unstable sheared magnetohydrodynamic flows. We considered two cases: a strong magnetic field (Alfven Mach number, M_a = 2.5) and a weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Adam Frank , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , Joseph B. Gaalaas

Non-thermal emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets extends up-to large scales in-spite of them being prone to a slew of magneto-hydrodynamic instabilities. The main focus of this study is to understand the impact of MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Nikhil Borse , Sriyasriti Acharya , Bhargav Vaidya , Dipanjan Mukherjee , Gianluigi Bodo , Paola Rossi , Andrea Mignone

Origin of hydrodynamical instability and turbulence in the Keplerian accretion disc as well as similar laboratory shear flows, e.g. plane Couette flow, is a long standing puzzle. These flows are linearly stable. Here we explore the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Subham Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We perform numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the mid-plane of a protoplanetary disk. A two-dimensional corotating slice in the azimuthal--vertical plane of the disk is considered where we include the Coriolis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders Johansen , Thomas Henning , Hubert Klahr

We characterize the dynamical instability responsible for the breakdown of regular rows and necklaces of quantized vortices that appear at the interface between two superfluids in relative motion. Making use of a generalized point-vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-12 Matteo Caldara , Andrea Richaud , Massimo Capone , Pietro Massignan

Our ability to predict the structure and evolution of stars is in part limited by complex, 3D hydrodynamic processes such as convective boundary mixing. Hydrodynamic simulations help us understand the dynamics of stellar convection and…

We report an experimental study of the instability of a nearly-resonant Kelvin mode forced by precession in a cylindrical vessel. The instability is detected above a critical precession ratio via the appearance of peaks in the temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-13 Johann Herault , Andre Giesecke , Thomas Gundrum , Frank Stefani

We present the extension of GR-Athena++ to general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) for applications to neutron star spacetimes. The new solver couples the constrained transport implementation of Athena++ to the Z4c formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 William Cook , Boris Daszuta , Jacob Fields , Peter Hammond , Simone Albanesi , Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice

It has been recently argued through numerical work that rotating stars with a high degree of differential rotation are dynamically unstable against bar-mode deformation, even for values of the ratio of rotational kinetic energy to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Vicent Quilis , José A. Font

In this paper, we solve a long-standing open problem: nonlinear stability of current-vortex sheet in the ideal incompressible Magneto-Hydrodynamics under the linear stability condition. This result gives a first rigorous confirmation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Yongzhong Sun , Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

We construct a new Godunov type relativistic hydrodynamics code in Milne coordinates, using a Riemann solver based on the two-shock approximation which is stable under the existence of large shock waves. We check the correctness of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-18 Kazuhisa Okamoto , Yukinao Akamatsu , Chiho Nonaka

In this paper, the second in a series, we document the algorithms and solvers for compressible nonrelativistic hydrodynamics implemented in GenASiS (General Astrophysical Simulation System)---a new code being developed initially and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-09 Christian Y. Cardall , Reuben D. Budiardja , Eirik Endeve , Anthony Mezzacappa

It is often the case in numerical relativity that schemes that are known to be convergent for well posed systems are used in evolutions of weakly hyperbolic (WH) formulations of Einstein's equations. Here we explicitly show that with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Gioel Calabrese , Jorge Pullin , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

We investigate the linear theory of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the interface between a partially ionized dusty outflow and the ambient material analytically. We model the interaction as a multifluid system in a planar geometry. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mohsen Shadmehri , Turlough P. Downes

Hybrid inverse problems are mathematical descriptions of coupled-physics (also called multi-waves) imaging modalities that aim to combine high resolution with high contrast. The solution of a high-resolution inverse problem, a first step…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Guillaume Bal

The streaming instability and Kelvin--Helmholtz instability are considered the two major sources causing clumping of dust particles and turbulence in the dust layer of a protoplanetary disk as long as we consider the dead zone where the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Minoru Sekiya , Isamu K. Onishi