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We model strong forward shocks in young supernova remnants with efficient particle acceleration where a nonresonant instability driven by the cosmic ray current amplifies magnetic turbulence in the shock precursor. Particle injection,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey E. Vladimirov , Andrei M. Bykov , Donald C. Ellison

We study the explosion mechanism of collapse-driven supernovae by numerical simulations with a new nuclear EOS based on unstable nuclei. We report new results of simulations of general relativistic hydrodynamics together with the Boltzmann…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Sumiyoshi , S. Yamada , H. Suzuki , H. Shen , H. Toki

We examine MHD simulations of the propagation of a strong shock wave through the interstellar two-phase medium composed of small-scale cloudlets and diffuse warm neutral medium in two-dimensional geometry. The pre-shock two-phase medium is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Here we present the results from two sets of simulations, in two and three spatial dimensions. In two dimensions, the simulations include multifrequency flux-limited diffusion neutrino transport in the "ray-by-ray-plus" approximation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Mezzacappa , S. W. Bruenn , J. M. Blondin , W. R. Hix , O. E. B. Messer

The nonlinear propagation of electrostatic solitary waves is studied in a collisionless electron-positron pair plasma consisting of adiabatic cool electrons, mobile cool positrons (or electron holes), hot suprathermal electrons described by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-06 Ashkbiz Danehkar

Our statistics on Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) shows that the electrons temperature ($T$) of hard X-ray and the shock waves traveling velocity ($\upsilon$) decreases with ages ($t$) for all-sort remnants. However, the shock waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-18 Jian-Wen Xu , Ya-Peng Hu

We study the propagation of a strong, low frequency, linearly polarized fast magnetosonic wave inside the magnetosphere of a neutron star. The relative strength $\delta B/B$ of the wave grows as a function of radius before it reaches the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Alexander Y. Chen , Yajie Yuan , Xinyu Li , Jens F. Mahlmann

We present new solutions to the strong explosion problem in a non-power law density profile. The unperturbed self-similar solutions discovered by Waxman & Shvarts describe strong Newtonian shocks propagating into a cold gas with a density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-17 Yonatan Oren , Re'em Sari

We present a new method for analyzing the global stability of the Sedov-von Neumann-Taylor self-similar solutions, describing the asymptotic behavior of spherical decelerating shock waves, expanding into ideal gas with density \propto…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Doron Kushnir , Eli Waxman , Dov Shvarts

This study investigates the propagation of detonations along a layered configuration where a reactive gas is weakly confined by a hotter inert layer. CFD simulations are performed using a single-step, non-Arrhenius reaction model designed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Youssef K. Wahba , XiaoCheng Mi , Charles B. Kiyanda , Andrew J. Higgins

Supernovae from core-collapse of massive stars drive shocks into the molecular clouds from which the stars formed. Such shocks affect future star formation from the molecular clouds, and the fast-moving, dense gas with compressed magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 William T. Reach , Le Ngoc Tram , Matthew Richter , Antoine Gusdorf , Curtis DeWitt

We consider the recently discovered \emph{pair-Alfv\'en shock wave} occurring in collisionless electron-positron plasmas. We perform a series of Particle-In-Cell studies in one and two dimensions in order to determine the stability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-31 John Daniel Riordan , Mark E. Dieckmann , Asaf Pe'er

Dense pockets of cold, molecular gas precede the formation of stars. During their infancy and later phases of evolution, stars inject considerable energy into the interstellar medium by driving shocks either due to ionising radiation or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-12-02 S. Anathpindika

We investigate the mechanism of whistler-mode wave generation by shock-reflected electrons at quasi-perpendicular collisionless shocks. By employing Liouville mapping to construct the electron velocity distribution function in the shock and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Ruolin Wang , Takanobu Amano

Since core-collapse supernova simulations still struggle to produce robust neutrino-driven explosions in 3D, it has been proposed that asphericities caused by convection in the progenitor might facilitate shock revival by boosting the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 B. Müller , H. -Th. Janka

The self-similar expansion of a blast wave, well-studied in air, has peculiar counterparts in dense and dissipative media such as granular gases. Recent results have shown that, while the traditional Taylor-von Neumann-Sedov (TvNS)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-25 Matthieu Barbier , Dario Villamaina , Emmanuel Trizac

We perform new general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations for collapses of rotating supermassive star cores with an approximate nuclear burning up to carbon and a detailed equation of state. For all the models we investigate, the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Sho Fujibayashi , Cédric Jockel , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We develop a generalisation to the classical Sedov Taylor explosion where the medium free falls to a point mass at the centre of the explosion. To verify our analytic results, we compare them to a suite of numerical simulations. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Almog Yalinewich

Supersonic isothermal turbulence establishes a network of transient dense shocks that sweep up material and have a density profile described by balance between ram pressure of the background fluid versus the magnetic and gas pressure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart

We use the Gurevich-Pitaevskii approach based on the Whitham averaging method for studying the formation of dispersive shock waves in an intense light pulse propagating through a saturable nonlinear medium. Although the Whitham modulation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-23 Sergey K. Ivanov , Jules-Elemir Suchorski , Anatoly M. Kamchatnov , Mathieu Isoard , Nicolas Pavloff