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The flow resulting from a strong ultrarelativistic shock moving through a stellar envelope with a polytrope-like density profile has been studied analytically and numerically at early times while the fluid temperature is relativistic--that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Margaret Pan , Re'em Sari

Although local existence of multidimensional shock waves has been established in some fundamental references, there are few results on the global existence of those waves except the ones for the unsteady potential flow equations in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Jun Li , Ingo Witt , Huicheng Yin

The properties of axisymmetric accretion flows of cold adiabatic gas with zero total energy in the vicinity of a Newtonian point mass are characterized by a single dimensionless parameter, the thickness of incoming flow. In the limit of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Dongsu Ryu , Garry L. Brown , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Abraham Loeb

The model under consideration is an asymmetric two-dimensional Coulomb gas of positively (q_1=+1) and negatively (q_2=-1/2) charged pointlike particles, interacting via a logarithmic potential. This continuous system is stable against…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Samaj

The one-dimensional scattering of a two body interacting system by an infinite wall is studied in a quantum-mechanical framework. This problem contains some of the dynamical features present in the collision of atomic, molecular and nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-10-26 A. M. Moro , J. A. Caballero , J. Gomez-Camacho

We are concerned with the structural stability of conical shocks in the three-dimensional steady supersonic flows past Lipschitz perturbed cones whose vertex angles are less than the critical angle. The flows under consideration are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Jie Kuang , Yongqian Zhang

We present an alternative explanation for the nature of turbulence in molecular clouds. Often associated with classical models of turbulence, we instead interpret the observed gas dynamics as random motions, induced when clumpy gas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Clare Dobbs , Ian Bonnell

We study the behavior of perturbations in a compressible one-dimensional inviscid gas with an ambient state consisting of constant pressure and periodically-varying density. We show through asymptotic analysis that long-wavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 David I. Ketcheson , Giovanni Russo

When an upstream steady uniform supersonic flow impinges onto a symmetric straight-sided wedge, governed by the Euler equations, there are two possible steady oblique shock configurations if the wedge angle is less than the detachment angle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-18 Gui-Qiang G. Chen

We discuss spherically symmetric perfect fluid solutions of Einstein's equations which have equation of state ($p=\alpha \mu$) and which are self-similar in the sense that all dimensionless variables depend only upon $z\equiv r/t$. For each…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. Carr

We derive the shock strength area rule for a Noble-Abel stiffened gas (NASG) equation of a state required in Whitham's geometrical shock dynamics approach to determine shock wave dynamics in dense gases, liquids and solids. An exact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-27 Matei Ioan Rădulescu

We use high resolution 2D hydrodynamic simulations to study the formation of spiral substructure in the gaseous disk of a galaxy. The obtained gaseous response is driven by a self-consistent non-axisymmetric potential obtained from an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Miguel A. Yáñez , Michael L. Norman , Marco A. Martos , John C. Hayes

We investigate self-similar dynamical processes in an isothermal self-gravitational fluid with spherical symmetry. In reference to earlier complementary solution results of Larson, Penston, Shu, Hunter and Whitworth & Summers, we further…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu-Qing Lou , Yue Shen

Complex fission phenomena are studied in a unified way. Very general reflection asymmetrical equilibrium (saddle point) nuclear shapes are obtained by solving an integro-differential equation without being necessary to specify a certain…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 D. N. Poenaru , R. A. Gherghescu , W. Greiner

The recent discoveries in the theory of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) that stem from first-principle kinetic plasma simulations are discussed. When ion acceleration is efficient, the back-reaction of non-thermal particles and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Damiano Caprioli , Colby Haggerty , Pasquale Blasi

In the following paper we present an internal shocks model, iShocks, for simulating a variety of relativistic jet scenarios; these scenarios can range from a single ejection event to an almost continuous jet, and are highly user…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Jamil , R. Fender , C. Kaiser

Guderley's 1942 work on radial shock waves provides cases of self-similar Euler flows exhibiting blowup of primary (undifferentiated) flow variables: a converging shock wave invades a quiescent region, and the velocity and pressure in its…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-23 Helge Kristian Jenssen , Charis Tsikkou

The shock waves produce relativistic particles via the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) mechanism. Among various circumstances, fast acceleration has been expected for perpendicular shocks. We investigate the acceleration time and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Shoma F. Kamijima , Yutaka Ohira , Ryo Yamazaki

We show that strong bow shocks are turbulent and non-universal near the head, but asymptote to a universal steady, self-similar, and analytically solvable flow in the downstream. The turbulence is essentially 3D, and has been confirmed by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-23 Marcus DuPont , Andrei Gruzinov , Andrew MacFadyen

We model relativistically colliding plasma by PIC simulations in one and two spatial dimensions, taking an ion-to-electron mass ratio of 400. Energy dissipation by a wave precursor of mixed polarity and different densities of the colliding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. E. Dieckmann , P. K. Shukla , L. O. C. Drury