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The understanding of inertial-scale dynamics in the heliosheath is not yet thorough. Magnetic field fluctuations across the inner heliosheath (IHS) and the local interstellar medium (LISM) are here considered to provide accurate and highly…

The interaction of turbulence, magnetic fields, self-gravity, and stellar feedback within molecular clouds is crucial for understanding star formation. We study the effects of self-gravity and outflow feedback on the properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-25 Yue Hu , Christoph Federrath , Siyao Xu , Sajay Sunny Mathew

We investigate the effect of density and viscosity differences on a swarm of large and deformable bubbles dispersed in a turbulent channel flow. For a given shear Reynolds number, Re=300, and a constant bubble volume fraction, Phi=5.4%, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-26 Francesca Mangani , Giovanni Soligo , Alessio Roccon , Alfredo Soldati

We hypothesize that combining extreme turbulence with a minute reduction in surface tension $\sigma$ (surface tension of the liquid) using surfactant provides a simple and scalable route for controlling micron scale bubble size in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Vivek Kumar , Prasoon Suchandra , Jason Rom , Shivam Prajapati , Suhas Jain , Cyrus Aidun

The intra-cluster medium is prone to turbulent motion that will contribute to the non-thermal heating of the gas, complicating the use of galaxy clusters as cosmological probes. Indirect approaches can estimate the intensity and structure…

The turbulent dynamics of nearby and extragalactic gas structures can be studied with the column density power spectrum, which is often described by a broken power-law.In an extragalactic context, the breaks in the power spectra have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Bastian Körtgen , Nickolas Pingel , Nicholas Killerby-Smith

Numerical turbulence with hyperviscosity is studied and compared with direct simulations using ordinary viscosity and data from wind tunnel experiments. It is shown that the inertial range scaling is similar in all three cases. Furthermore,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nils Erland L. Haugen , Axel Brandenburg

Dense non-Brownian suspension flows of hard particles display mystifying properties: as the jamming threshold is approached, the viscosity diverges, as well as a length scale that can be identified from velocity correlations. To unravel the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gustavo Düring , Edan Lerner , Matthieu Wyart

The dynamics of small-scale structures in free-surface turbulence is crucial to large-scale phenomena in natural and industrial environments. Here we conduct experiments on the quasi-flat free surface of a zero-mean-flow turbulent water…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yinghe Qi , Yaxing Li , Filippo Coletti

Radiative transfer models in a spherical, turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) in which the photon source is situated at the center are calculated to investigate the correlation between the scattered light and the dust column density. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kwang-Il Seon , Adolf N. Witt

The dynamics and chemistry of protostellar disks are likely to be intricately linked, with dynamical processes altering the chemical composition, and chemistry, in turn, controlling the ionization structure and hence the ability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Willacy , W. D. Langer , M. Allen , G. Bryden

We study the mass-density relationship n ~ m^x in molecular cloud condensations (clumps), considering various equipartition relations between their gravitational, kinetic, internal and magnetic energies. Clumps are described statistically,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sava Donkov , Todor Veltchev , Ralf S. Klessen

We study scaling relations of compressible strongly magnetized turbulence. We find a good correspondence of our results with the Fleck (1996) model of compressible hydrodynamic turbulence. In particular, we find that the density-weighted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Grzegorz Kowal , A. Lazarian

In this work, we explore the link between star formation, turbulence and the thermal state of the multi-phase ISM. We analyse a suite of stratified box simulations modelling a realistic ISM that aims to probe environments similar to those…

Studying the driving modes of turbulence is important for characterizing the impact of turbulence in various astrophysical environments. The driving mode of turbulence is parameterized by $b$, which relates the width of the gas density PDF…

The dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM) are strongly affected by turbulence, which shows increased anisotropy in the presence of a magnetic field. We expand upon the Esquivel & Lazarian method to estimate the Alfven Mach number using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Blakesley Burkhart , A. Lazarian , I. C. Leao , J. R. de Medeiros , A. Esquivel

Knowing the lengthscales at which turbulent fluctuations dissipate is key to understanding the nature of weakly compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We use radio wavelength interferometric imaging observations which measure the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 K. Sasikumar Raja , Prasad Subramanian , Madhusudan Ingale , R. Ramesh

We study the mixing of chemical species in the interstellar medium (ISM). Recent observations suggest that the distribution of species such as deuterium in the ISM may be far from homogeneous. This raises the question of how long it takes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Miguel A. de Avillez , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We investigate the effect of varying the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and toroidal equilibrium scale sheared flow on ion-scale turbulence in the outer core of MAST by means of local gyrokinetic simulations. We show that nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 F. van Wyk , E. G. Highcock , A. R. Field , C. M. Roach , A. A. Schekochihin , F. I. Parra , W. Dorland

Supernova explosions inject a considerable amount of energy into the interstellar medium (ISM) in regions with high to moderate star formation rates. In order to assess whether the driving of turbulence by supernovae is also important in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Sami Dib , C. Jakob Walcher , Mark Heyer , Edouard Audit , Laurent Loinard