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Formation of massive stars within embedded star clusters starts a complex interplay between their feedback, inflowing gas and stellar dynamics, which often includes close stellar encounters. Hydrodynamical simulations usually resort to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 F. Dinnbier , S. Walch

Liou-Steffen splitting (AUSM) schemes are popular for low Mach number simulations, however, like many numerical schemes for compressible flow they require careful modification to accurately resolve convective features in this regime.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-24 Joshua Hope-Collins , Luca di Mare

The linear theory for rotating compressible convection in a plane layer geometry is presented for the astrophysically-relevant case of low Prandtl number gases. When the rotation rate of the system is large, the flow remains geostrophically…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-03-02 Michael A. Calkins , Keith Julien , Philippe Marti

Planetary atmospheres are commonly thought to result from the efficient outgassing of cooling magma oceans. During this stage, vigorous convective motions in the molten interior are believed to rapidly transport the dissolved volatiles to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Arnaud Salvador , Henri Samuel

Molecular dynamics is one of the most commonly used approaches for studying the dynamics and statistical distributions of many physical, chemical, and biological systems using atomistic or coarse-grained models. It is often the case,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ben Leimkuhler , Daniel T. Margul , Mark E. Tuckerman

Convection is a fundamental mechanism for energy transport in stars and planets, playing a pivotal role in shaping their structures and evolution. The Mixing-Length Theory, a monomodal approach to convection, is widely adopted and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Leïla Bessila , Stéphane Mathis

The subgrid-scale modelling of a low Mach number strongly anisothermal turbulent flow is investigated using direct numerical simulations. The study is based on the filtering of the low Mach number equations, suited to low Mach number flows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-09 Dorian Dupuy , Adrien Toutant , Françoise Bataille

Fluid flows are omnipresent in nature and engineering disciplines. The reliable computation of fluids has been a long-lasting challenge due to nonlinear interactions over multiple spatio-temporal scales. The compressible Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-10 Deniz A. Bezgin , Aaron B. Buhendwa , Nikolaus A. Adams

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

We present Phantom, a fast, parallel, modular and low-memory smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code developed over the last decade for astrophysical applications in three dimensions. The code has been developed with a…

We presents results from Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics simulations of collapsing molecular cloud cores, and dynamo amplification of the magnetic field in the presence of Mach 10 magnetised turbulence. Our star formation simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price , Christoph Federrath , Matthew R. Bate

Exascale super-computers now becoming available rely on hybrid energy-efficient architectures that involve an accelerator such as Graphics Processing Units (GPU). Leveraging the computational power of these machines often means a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 G. R. J. Lesur , S. Baghdadi , G. Wafflard-Fernandez , J. Mauxion , C. M. T. Robert , M. Van den Bossche

Angular momentum transport is a fundamental process shaping the structure, evolution, and lifespans of stars and disks across a wide range of astrophysical systems. Be stars offer a valuable environment for studying viscous transport of…

We analyze stellar convection with the aid of 3D hydrodynamic simulations, introducing the turbulent cascade into our theoretical analysis. We devise closures of the Reynolds-decomposed mean field equations by simple physical modeling of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David Arnett , Casey Meakin , P. A. Young

We develop a new numerical scheme for ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, which is robust against one- and multi-dimensional shocks, and is accurate for low Mach number flows and discontinuities. The scheme belongs to a family of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Takashi Minoshima , Keiichi Kitamura , Takahiro Miyoshi

We have developed a three-dimensional (3D) spectral hydrodynamic code to study vortex dynamics in rotating, shearing, stratified systems (e.g. the atmosphere of gas giant planets, protoplanetary disks around newly forming protostars). The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joseph A. Barranco , Philip S. Marcus

In this paper we overcome a key problem in an otherwise highly potential approach to study turbulent flows, ODTLES (One-Dimensional Turbulence Large Eddy Simulation). From a methodological point of view, ODTLES is an approach in between…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-06 Christoph Glawe , Juan A. Medina M. , Heiko Schmidt

We explore the application of Monte Carlo transport methods to solving coupled radiation-hydrodynamics problems. We use a time-dependent, frequency-dependent, 3-dimensional radiation transport code, that is special relativistic and includes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nathaniel Roth , Daniel Kasen

We present 1D-MESA2HYDRO-3D, an open source, Python-based software tool that provides an accessible means of generating physically motivated initial conditions (ICs) for hydrodynamical simulations from 1-D stellar structure models. We test…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Meridith Joyce , Lianne Lairmore , Daniel J. Price , Thomas Reichardt , Shazrene Mohamed

Hydrogen fuel cells are a key technology in the transition toward carbon-neutral energy systems, offering clean power with water as the only byproduct. Microfluidic fuel cells, which operate at the microliter scale, are an emerging variant…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Michel Takken , Robert Wille