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{It is well established that the atomic interstellar hydrogen is filling the galaxies and constitutes the building blocks of molecular clouds.} {To understand the formation and the evolution of molecular clouds, it is necessary to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Audit , P. Hennebelle

In this article, we present direct numerical simulation results for the expansion of spherical cap bubbles attached to a rigid wall due to a sudden drop in the ambient pressure. The critical pressure drop beyond which the bubble growth…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-28 Mandeep Saini , Xiang Bin Chen , Stephane Zaleski , Daniel Fuster

Using hydrodynamic simulations we investigate the time evolution and fragmentation of regions within molecular clouds which have lost their turbulent support leading to gravitational contraction. The initial density distributions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ralf Klessen , Andreas Burkert

Using a general circulation model (GCM), we investigate trends in simulated hot Jupiter atmospheres for a range of irradiation temperatures (1,500 - 4,000 K), surface gravities (10 and 40 m s-2), and cloud conditions. Our models include…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Michael T. Roman , Eliza M. -R. Kempton , Emily Rauscher , Caleb K. Harada , Jacob L. Bean , Kevin B. Stevenson

Cirrus clouds are key modulators of Earth's climate. Their dependencies on meteorological and aerosol conditions are among the largest uncertainties in global climate models. This work uses three years of satellite and reanalysis data to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Kai Jeggle , David Neubauer , Gustau Camps-Valls , Ulrike Lohmann

Surfactants are critical in natural processes and engineering, but measuring their concentrations in non-equilibrium conditions and in the presence of flow is difficult. Therefore, computational methods are a key tool for improving our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-25 Keyu Feng , Saikat Mukherjee , Tianyi Hu , Hector Gomez

This study presents a first-principles model to predict the two-phase pressure drop in gas-liquid intermittent flow through round capillaries, which serve as the simplest analogous of a porous medium. Building upon the classical capillary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-15 Paolo Botticini , Davide Picchi , Santanu Sinha , Alex Hansen

Condensational growth of cloud droplets due to supersaturation fluctuations is investigated by solving the hydrodynamic and thermodynamic equations using direct numerical simulations with droplets being modeled as Lagrangian particles. The…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Xiang-Yu Li , Gunilla Svensson , Axel Brandenburg , Nils E. L. Haugen

Turbulence, left unforced, decays and invades the surrounding quiescent fluid. Though ubiquitous, this simple phenomenon has proven hard to capture within a simple and general framework. Experiments in conventional turbulent flow chambers…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-30 Takumi Matsuzawa , Minhui Zhu , Nigel Goldenfeld , William T. M. Irvine

We propose a computational method to simulate anomalous self-diffusion in a simple liquid. The method is based on a molecular dynamics simulation on which we impose the following two conditions: firstly, the inter-particle interaction is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-07 Simon Standaert , Jan Ryckebusch , Lesley De Cruz

We use direct numerical simulation to study the temporal evolution of a perturbation localized on the turbulent layer that typically separates a cloud from the surrounding clear air. Across this shearless layer, a turbulent kinetic energy…

In this work we study the global solvability of moisture dynamics with phase changes for warm clouds. We thereby in comparison to previous studies [Hittmeir-Klein-Li-Titi (2017)] take into account the different gas constants for dry air and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Sabine Hittmeir , Rupert Klein , Jinkai Li , Edriss S. Titi

We examine the evaporation-induced coalescence of two droplets undergoing freezing by conducting numerical simulations employing the lubrication approximation. When two sessile drops undergo freezing in close vicinity over a substrate, they…

Fluid phase equilibria involving nano-dispersed phases, where at least one of the coexisting phases is confined to a small volume, are investigated by molecular dynamics simulation. Complementing previous studies on nanoscopic droplets,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Martin Horsch , Hans Hasse

The environmental impact of pollutants and effluents discharged into the atmosphere or the oceans has led researchers to conduct studies related to this issue. Several works have been carried out in this context in order to reduce the…

Recent numerical simulations of the interstellar medium driven by energy input from supernovae and stellar winds indicate that HI clouds can be formed by compression in shock waves and colliding turbulent streams without any help from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anvar Shukurov

This paper discusses the evolution of the droplet size distribution for a liquid-in-gas aerosol contained in a Rayleigh-B\'enard cell. It introduces a non-collisional model for broadening the droplet size distribution, termed 'convective…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael Wilkinson

Capillary droplets form due to surface tension when two immiscible fluids are mixed. We describe the motion of gravity-driven capillary droplets flowing through narrow constrictions and obstacle arrays in both simulations and experiments.…

Observational evidence from local star-forming regions mandates that star formation occurs shortly after, or even during, molecular cloud formation. Models of the formation of molecular clouds in large-scale converging flows have identified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Adam Frank , Fabian Heitsch

Cloud droplets containing ice-nucleating particles (INPs) may freeze at temperatures above the homogeneous freezing threshold temperature. This process, referred to as immersion freezing, is one of the modulators of aerosol-cloud…