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Significant theoretical and observational efforts are underway to investigate the properties of turbulence in the hot plasma that pervades galaxy clusters. Spectroscopy has been used to study the projected line-of-sight velocities in both…

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The central regions of cool-core galaxy clusters harbour multiphase gas, with gas temperatures ranging from $10$ $\mathrm{K}$--$10^7$$\mathrm{K}$. Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) jets prevents the gas from undergoing a…

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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

Magnetic fields and turbulence are important components of the interstellar medium (ISM) of star-forming galaxies. It is challenging to measure the properties of the small-scale ISM magnetic fields (magnetic fields at scales smaller than…

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Energy dissipation rate is an important parameter for nearly every experiment on turbulent flow. Mathematically precise relationships between energy dissipation rate and other measurable statistics for the case of anisotropic turbulence are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-02-28 Reginald J. Hill

Turbulence is a key element of the dynamics of astrophysical fluids, including those of interstellar medium, clusters of galaxies and circumstellar regions. Turbulent motions induce Doppler shifts of observable emission and absorption lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-27 A. Chepurnov , A. Lazarian

In this paper, we analyze the scaling of velocity structure functions of turbulent thermal convection. Using high-resolution numerical simulations, we show that the structure functions scale similar to those of hydrodynamic turbulence, with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-15 Shashwat Bhattacharya , Shubhadeep Sadhukhan , Anirban Guha , Mahendra K. Verma

We amplify previous arguments why mean curvature should be used as measure of integration in calculating the effective bending rigidity of fluid membranes subjected to a weak background curvature. The stiffening of the membrane by its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. A. Pinnow , W. Helfrich

Astro-H will be able for the first time to map gas velocities and detect turbulence in galaxy clusters. One of the best targets for turbulence studies is the Coma cluster, due to its proximity, absence of a cool core, and lack of a central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 J. ZuHone , M. Markevitch , I. Zhuravleva

The stability of flows in layers of finite thickness $H$ is examined against small scale three dimensional (3D) perturbations and large scale two-dimensional (2D) perturbations. The former provide an indication of a forward transfer of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-04 Alexandros Alexakis

The formation of stars is governed by the intricate interplay of nonideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects, gravity, and turbulence. Computational challenges have hindered a comprehensive 3D exploration of this interplay, posing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-15 Aris Tritsis

We revisit the origin of Larson's scaling relations, which describe the structure and kinematics of molecular clouds, based on recent observations and large-scale simulations of supersonic turbulence. Using dimensional analysis, we first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-17 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

We study the statistical properties of coherent, small-scales, filamentary-like structures in Turbulence. In order to follow in time such complex spatial structures, we integrate Lagrangian and Eulerian measurements by seeding the flow with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-08-04 Luca Biferale , Andrea Scagliarini , Federico Toschi

In this presentation we review the link between the statistics of intensity fluctuations in spectral line data cubes with underlying statistical properties of turbulence in the interstellar medium. Both the formalism of Velocity Channel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri Pogosyan , Alex Lazarian

Turbulent flows are fundamental in engineering and the environment, but their chaotic and three-dimensional (3-D) nature makes them computationally expensive to simulate. In this work, a dimensionality reduction technique is investigated to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-16 Bernat Font

Velocity anisotropy induced by MHD turbulence is investigated using computational simulations and molecular line observations of the Taurus molecular cloud. A new analysis method is presented to evaluate the degree and angle of velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Heyer , Hao Gong , Eve Ostriker , Christopher Brunt

This article discusses a potential impact of turbulent velocity fluctuations of the air on a drizzle formation in Cumulus clouds. Two different representations of turbulent velocity fluctuations for a microphysics formulated in a Lagrangian…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 M. Andrejczuk , A. Gadian , A. Blyth

We discuss a long-standing problem of how turbulence can be studied using observations of Doppler broadened emission and absorption lines. The focus of the present review is on two new techniques, the Velocity-Channel Analysis (VCA), which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 A. Lazarian

We investigate the physical mechanism that decides the saturation level of turbulence in collapsing gas clouds. We perform a suite of high-resolution numerical simulations following the collapse of turbulent gas clouds with various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Sho Higashi , Hajime Susa , Gen Chiaki

A new scenario for the interaction of a jet with a background medium with cold clouds is investigated by means of hydrodynamic turbulence simulations with cooling. The idea is that the cold clouds are overtaken by a radio cocoon and stirred…

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