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We present numerical simulations of reorienting oblique shocks that form in the collision layer between magnetized colliding flows. Reorientation aligns parsec-scale post-shock filaments normal to the background magnetic field. We find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Erica L. Fogerty , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Adam Frank , Fabian Heitsch , Andy Pon

Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, yet their formation, internal structure, and longevity have not been studied in detail. We report the results from a comprehensive numerical study that investigates the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Ross Parkin , Christoph Federrath , Roland Crocker , Geoffrey Bicknell

We study shock formation in vertically oscillated granular layers, using both molecular dynamics simulations and numerical solutions of continuum equations to Navier-Stokes order. A flat layer of grains is thrown up from an oscillating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 J. Bougie , Sung Joon Moon , J. B. Swift , Harry L. Swinney

Cloud-wind interactions are common in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Many studies have used simulations of such interactions to investigate the effect of particular physical processes, but the impact of the choice of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Joey Braspenning , Joop Schaye , Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller

The diffuse interstellar medium is dynamic, and its chemistry and evolution is determined by shock fronts as well as photodissociation. Shocks are implied by the supersonic motions and velocity dispersion often statistically called…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 William T. Reach , Carl Heiles

The here presented work studies the dynamics of filaments using 3D fluid simulations in the presence of detached background profiles. It was found that evolving the neutrals on the time-scale of the filament did not have a significant…

The mass (volume and areal densities) versus velocity as well as the size versus velocity distributions of a shock-induced cloud of particles are investigated using large scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A generic 3D tin crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-07 O. Durand , L. Soulard

The propagation of filaments in the Scrape Off Layer (SOL) of tokamaks largely determine the plasma profiles in the region. In a conduction limited SOL, parallel temperature gradients are expected, such that the resistance to parallel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Luke Easy , Fulvio Militello , John Omotani , Nick Walkden , Benjamin Dudson

The mixing properties of vapor content, temperature and particle fields are of paramount importance in cloud turbulence as they pertain to essential processes, such as cloud water droplet evaporation and entrainment. Our study examines the…

Elastic filaments are vital to biological, physical and engineering systems, from cilia driving fluid in the lungs to artificial swimmers and micro-robotics. Simulating slender structures requires intricate balance of elastic, body, active,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Paul Fuchter , Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha

As 2D materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and 2D polymers become more prevalent, solution processing and colloidal-state properties are being exploited to create advanced and functional materials. However, our…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-27 Kevin S. Silmore , Michael S. Strano , James W. Swan

We have studied head-on collisions between equal-mass, mildly supersonic (Mach number 1.5) HI clouds, in a standard Two-phase ISM (T_cl = 74 K, n_cl = 22 cm^-3, \chi = 100). We explore the role of various factors, including the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Francesco Miniati , T. W. Jones , Andrea Ferrara , Dongsu Ryu

The non-linear response of entangled polymers to shear flow is complicated. Its current understanding is framed mainly as a rheological description in terms of the complex viscosity. However, the full picture requires an assessment of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Airidas Korolkovas , Philipp Gutfreund , Max Wolff

To understand the formation of a magnetically dominated molecular cloud from an atomic cloud, we study the interaction of a weak, radiative shock with a magnetised cloud. The thermally stable warm atomic cloud is initially in static…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Van Loo , S. A. E. G. Falle , T. W. Hartquist

Scroll waves are three-dimensional excitation patterns that rotate around a central filament curve; they occur in many physical, biological and chemical systems. We explicitly derive the equations of motion for scroll wave filaments in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-08-20 Hans Dierckx , Henri Verschelde

Molecular dynamics computer simulations are used to investigate a silica melt confined between walls at equilibrium and in a steady-state Poisseuille flow. The walls consist of point particles forming a rigid face-centered cubic lattice and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Juergen Horbach , Kurt Binder

The fragmentation of filaments in molecular clouds has attracted a lot of attention as there seems to be a relation between the evolution of filaments and star formation. The study of the fragmentation process has been motivated by simple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-07 R. -A. Chira , J. Kainulainen , J. C. Ibàñez-Mejía , Th. Henning , M. -M. Mac Low

Radiative feedback from massive stars is a key process to understand how HII regions may enhance or inhibit star formation in pillars and globules at the interface with molecular clouds. We aim to contribute to model the interactions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Tremblin , E. Audit , V. Minier , N. Schneider

Using the adaptive mesh refinement code MG, we perform hydrodynamic simulations of the interaction of a shock with a molecular cloud evolving due to thermal instability and gravity. To explore the relative importance of these processes,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 M. M. Kupilas , C. J. Wareing , J. M. Pittard , S. A. E. G. Falle

We present the results of systematic comparison of 2D and 3D numerical models of mass transfer in semidetached binaries. It is shown that only for case of \gamma \sim 1 (near-isothermal case) the obtained 2D and 3D solutions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Bisikalo , A. A. Boyarchuk , V. M. Chechetkin , O. A. Kuznetsov , D. Molteni