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Signatures of "evaporative" winds from exo-planets on short (hot) orbits around their host star have been observed in a number of systems. In this paper we present global AMR simulations that track the launching of the winds, their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback , Adam Frank , Baowei Liu , Alice C. Quillen , Eric G. Blackman , Ian Dobbs-Dixon

Potential magnetic field solutions can be obtained based on the synoptic magnetograms of the Sun. Traditionally, a spherical harmonics decomposition of the magnetogram is used to construct the current and divergence free magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-02 Gabor Toth , Bart van der Holst , Zhenguang Huang

We present a versatile family of model galactic outflows including non-uniform mass and energy source distributions, a gravitational potential from an extended mass source, and radiative losses. The model easily produces steady-state wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Chad Bustard , Ellen G. Zweibel , Elena D'Onghia

High-energy particles stream during coronal mass ejections or flares through the plasma of the solar wind. This causes instabilities, which lead to wave growth at specific resonant wave numbers, especially within shock regions. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-01 Sebastian Lange , Felix Spanier , Markus Battarbee , Rami Vainio , Timo Laitinen

The steady state numerical solution and two dimensional hydrodynamic calculations of supergalactic winds generated by super star clusters are presented. Two possible regimes: quasi-adiabatic and strongly radiative are thoroughly discussed.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Silich , G. Tenorio-Tagle , C. Munoz-Tunon

We introduce an algorithm for the solution of a system of radial Schr\"odinger equations describing the inelastic scattering of particles with spin in a partial wave with definite total angular momentum. The system of differential equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Roberto Bruschini

In many rotating fluids, the lowest-order force balance is between gravity, pressure, and rotational acceleration ('GPR' balance). Terrestrial GPR balance takes the form of geostrophy and hydrostasy, which together yield the terrestrial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 Loren I. Matilsky

Spatio-temporal problems exist in many areas of knowledge and disciplines ranging from biology to engineering and physics. However, solution strategies based on classical statistical techniques often fall short due to the large number of…

Applications · Statistics 2017-06-15 Emil B. Iversen , Rune Juhl , Jan K. Møller , Jan Kleissl , Henrik Madsen , Juan M. Morales

A variety of nonthermal characteristics like kinetic, e.g., temperature, anisotropies and suprathermal populations (enhancing the high energy tails of the velocity distributions) are revealed by the in-situ observations in the solar wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-06 S. M. Shaaban , M. Lazar , S. Poedts , A. Elhanbaly

The recent launches of Parker Solar Probe (PSP), Solar Orbiter (SO) and BepiColombo, along with several older spacecraft, have provided the opportunity to study the solar wind at multiple latitudes and distances from the Sun simultaneously.…

We consider relativistic, stationary, axisymmetric, polytropic, unconfined, perfect MHD winds, assuming their five lagrangian first integrals to be known. The asymptotic structure consists of field-regions bordered by boundary layers along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Heyvaerts , C. Norman

We sketch an algorithm to generate exact anisotropic solutions starting from a barotropic EoS and setting an ansatz on the metric functions. To illustrate the method, we use a generalization of the polytropic equation of state consisting of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-21 Héctor Hernández , Daniel Suárez-Urango , Luis A. Núñez

Periodic traveling waves are numerically computed in a constant vorticity flow subject to the force of gravity. The Stokes wave problem is formulated via a conformal mapping as a nonlinear pseudo-differential equation, involving a periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-22 Sergey A. Dyachenko , Vera Mikyoung Hur

In the present work we utilize ACE/SWICS in-situ measurements of the properties of the solar wind outside ICMEs in order to determine whether, and to what extent are the solar wind properties affected by the solar cycle. We focus on proton…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 A. Cardenas-O'Toole , E. Landi

A theory of numerical path-following in toric varieties was suggested in two previous papers. The motivation is solving systems of polynomials with real or complex coefficients. When those polynomials are not assumed 'dense', solving them…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Gregorio Malajovich

Forecasting models of the solar wind often rely on simple parameterizations of the magnetic field that ignore the effects of the full magnetic field geometry. In this paper, we present the results of two solar wind prediction models that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Lauren N. Woolsey , Steven R. Cranmer

Propagation of unsteady waves under the effect of a step point load on a square lattice of spring-connected masses is investigated. The problem is solved by two methods. Asymptotic solutions at large time intervals, which describe the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Nadezhda Aleksandrova

In this paper we analyze the large-time behavior of weak solutions to polytropic fluid models possibly including quantum and capillary effects. Formal a priori estimates show that the density of solutions to these systems should disperse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Rémi Carles , Kleber Carrapatoso , Matthieu Hillairet

One of the primary science objectives of Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is to determine the structures and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind. However, establishing the connection between {\it in situ}…

The acceleration of thermal solar wind protons at spherical interplanetary shocks driven by coronal mass ejections is investigated. The solar wind velocity distribution is represented using $\kappa$-functions, which are transformed in…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 P. L. Prinsloo , R. D. Strauss , J. A. le Roux