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Given the large anisotropy of transport processes in magnetized plasmas, the magnetic field structure can strongly impact heat diffusion: magnetic surfaces and cantori form barriers to transport while chaotic layers and island structures…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Elizabeth J. Paul , Stuart R. Hudson , Per Helander

We analytically derive the transport tensor of thermal conductivity in an ultracold, but not yet quantum degenerate, gas of Bosonic lanthanide atoms using the Chapman-Enskog procedure. The tensor coefficients inherit an anisotropy from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-08 Reuben R. W. Wang , John L. Bohn

We present results of interface-resolved simulations of heat transfer in suspensions of finite-size neutrally-buoyant spherical particles for solid volume fractions up to 35% and bulk Reynolds numbers from 500 to 5600. An Immersed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Ali Yousefi , Mehdi Niazi Ardekani , Francesco Picano , Luca Brandt

This paper develops a strong computational approach to simulate a three-dimensional nonlinear radiation-conduction model in optically thick media, subject to suitable initial and boundary conditions. The space derivatives are approximated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Eric Ngondiep

Hot and tenuous plasmas are frequently far from local thermodynamic equilibrium, necessitating sophisticated methods for determining the associated plasma dielectric tensor and normal mode response. The Arbitrary Linear Plasma Solver…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Kristopher Klein , Daniel Verscharen

We study experimentally turbulent thermal diffusion of small particles in inhomogeneous and anisotropic stably stratified turbulence produced by one oscillating grid in the air flow. The velocity fields have been measured using a Particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-20 E. Elmakies , O. Shildkrot , N. Kleeorin , A. Levy , I. Rogachevskii , A. Eidelman

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamical behaviour of hot accretion flow with thermal conduction. The importance of thermal conduction on hot accretion flow is confirmed by observations of the hot gas that surrounds Sgr A$^*$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei

A method is developed within an adaptive framework to solve quasilinear diffusion problems with internal and possibly boundary layers starting from a coarse mesh. The solution process is assumed to start on a mesh where the problem is badly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Sara Pollock

We present a systematic shearing-box investigation of MRI-driven turbulence in a weakly collisional plasma by including the effects of an anisotropic pressure stress, i.e. anisotropic (Braginskii) viscosity. We constrain the pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-01 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Matthew W. Kunz

We study heat and charge transport through a normal diffusive wire coupled with a superconducting wire over the region smaller than the coherence length. Due to partial Andreev reflection of quasiparticles from the interface, the subgap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-03 E. V. Bezuglyi , V. Vinokur

In this paper, we review the computational aspects of a multiscale dissipative particle dynamics model for complex fluid simulations based on the feature-rich geometry of the Voronoi tessellation. The geometrical features of the model are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. De Fabritiis , P. V. Coveney

Transient diffusion equations arise in many branches of engineering and applied sciences (e.g., heat transfer and mass transfer), and are parabolic partial differential equations. It is well-known that, under certain assumptions on the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-08-06 K. B. Nakshatrala , H. Nagarajan , M. Shabouei

This paper builds on recent developments of adaptive methods for linear transport equations based on certain stable variational formulations of Petrov-Galerkin type. The variational formulations allow us to employ meshes with cells of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-05 W. Dahmen , G. Kutyniok , W. -Q Lim , C. Schwab , G. Welper

A thin shell finite element approach based on Loop's subdivision surfaces is proposed, capable of dealing with large deformations and anisotropic growth. To this end, the Kirchhoff-Love theory of thin shells is derived and extended to allow…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Roman Vetter , Norbert Stoop , Thomas Jenni , Falk K. Wittel , Hans J. Herrmann

Gas cooling and accretion in haloes delivers mass and angular momentum onto galaxies. In this work, we investigate the accuracy of the modelling of this important process in several different semi-analytic (SA) galaxy formation models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-08 Jun Hou , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlos S. Frenk

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study supercritical fluids near the gas-liquid critical point under heat flow in two dimensions. We calculate the steady-state temperature and density profiles. The resultant thermal conductivity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Toshiyuki Hamanaka , Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

We describe the structure and implementation of a moving-mesh hydrodynamics solver in the large-scale parallel code, Charm N-body GrAvity solver (ChaNGa). While largely based on the algorithm described by Springel (2010) that is implemented…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Philip Chang , James Wadsley , Thomas R. Quinn

The probe technique is a simple mean to incorporate elastic and inelastic processes into quantum dynamics. Using numerical simulations, we demonstrate that this tool can be employed beyond the analytically tractable linear response regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Salil Bedkihal , Malay Bandyopadhyay , Dvira Segal

We present a novel shape-approximating anisotropic re-meshing algorithm as a geometric generalization of the adaptive moving mesh method. Conventional moving mesh methods reduce the interpolation error of a mesh that discretizes a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nicolas Nebel , Albert Chern

Local (shearing box) simulations of the nonlinear evolution of the magnetorotational instability in a collisionless plasma show that angular momentum transport by pressure anisotropy ($p_\perp \ne p_\parallel$, where the directions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Prateek Sharma , Eliot Quataert , Gregory W. Hammett , James M. Stone
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