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The interaction of a shock with a cloud has been extensively studied in the literature, where the effects of magnetic fields, radiative cooling and thermal conduction have been considered. However, the formation of fully developed…

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We performed high resolution hydrodynamical simulations of dense cool clouds embedded in supernova-driven galactic superwinds. Here we present preliminary results of our reference model in which the effect of heat conduction are taken into…

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Binary systems containing a massive star and a non-accreting pulsar present strong interaction between the stellar and the pulsar winds. The properties of this interaction, which largely determine the non-thermal radiation in these systems,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-16 Xavier Paredes-Fortuny , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Manel Perucho , Marc Ribó

The interstellar medium (ISM) is a key ingredient of galaxies and their evolution, consisting of multiphase, turbulent dust and gas. Some of the star-forming regions in our Galaxy originate from cloud-cloud and wind-cloud collisions, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Sebastián Navarrete , Bryan J. Pinargote , Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán

The interaction of a shock wave with a bubble features in many engineering and emerging technological applications, and has been used widely to test new numerical methods for compressible interfacial flows. Recently, density-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Fabian Denner , Berend van Wachem

We have studied head-on collisions between equal-mass, mildly supersonic (Mach number 1.5) HI clouds, in a standard Two-phase ISM (T_cl = 74 K, n_cl = 22 cm^-3, \chi = 100). We explore the role of various factors, including the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Francesco Miniati , T. W. Jones , Andrea Ferrara , Dongsu Ryu

Hydrodynamical simulations are presented of a pulsar wind emitted by a supersonically moving pulsar. The pulsar moves through the interstellar medium or, in the more interesting case, through the supernova remnant created at its birth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. van der Swaluw , A. Achterberg , Y. A. Gallant , T. P. Downes , R. Keppens

We present two promising applications of training machine learning models inside a differentiable astrophysical (magneto)hydrodynamics simulator. First, we address the problem of slow convergence in hydrodynamical simulations of wind-blown…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Leonard Storcks , Tobias Buck

We use spherically symmetric hydrodynamic simulations to study the dynamical evolution and internal structure of superbubbles (SBs) driven by clustered supernovae (SNe), focusing on the effects of thermal conduction and cooling in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Kareem El-Badry , Eve C. Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim , Eliot Quataert , Daniel R. Weisz

A roughly constant temperature over a wide range of densities is maintained in molecular clouds through radiative heating and cooling. An isothermal equation of state is therefore frequently employed in molecular cloud simulations. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Pavlovski , M. D. Smith , M. -M. Mac Low

We investigate the evolution of interfaces among phases of the interstellar medium with different temperature. It is found that, for some initial conditions, the dynamical effects related to conductive fronts are very important even if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrea Ferrara , Yuri Shchekinov

The dynamics of the wind-wind collision in massive stellar binaries is investigated using three-dimensional hydrodynamical models which incorporate gravity, the driving of the winds, the orbital motion of the stars, and radiative cooling of…

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Molecular clouds (MCs) are stellar nurseries, however, formation of stars within MCs depends on the ambient physical conditions. MCs, over a free-fall time are exposed to numerous dynamical phenomena, of which, the interaction with a thin,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Anathpindika , H. C. Bhatt

We have used the AMR hydrodynamic code, MG, to perform 3D hydrodynamic simulations with self-gravity of stellar feedback in a spherical clumpy molecular cloud formed through the action of thermal instability. We simulate the interaction of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Christopher J. Wareing , Julian M. Pittard , Samuel A. E. G. Falle

The interaction between a supersonic stellar wind and a (super-)sonic interstellar wind has recently been viewed with new interest. We here first give an overview of the modeling, which includes the heliosphere as an example of a special…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Klaus Scherer , Horst Fichtner , Jens Kleimann , Tobias Wiengarten , Dominik J. Bomans , Kerstin Weis

(Abridged) We study the effects of interstellar clouds on the dynamical and chemical evolution of gas-rich dwarf galaxies. In particular, we focus on two model galaxies similar to IZw18 and NGC1569 in comparison to models in which a smooth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Recchi , G. Hensler

Using a set of high resolution hydrodynamical simulations run with the Cholla code, we investigate how mass and momentum couple to the multiphase components of galactic winds. The simulations model the interaction between a hot wind driven…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Evan E. Schneider , Brant E. Robertson

We present hydrodynamic simulations of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) traveling through the hot, tenuous medium in the Galactic halo. A suite of models was created using the FLASH hydrodynamics code, sampling various cloud sizes, densities,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Kyujin Kwak , David B. Henley , Robin L. Shelton

2D axis-symmetric hydrodynamical simulations are presented which explore the interaction of stellar and disk winds with surrounding infalling cloud material. The star, and its accompanying disk, blow winds inside a cavity cleared out by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 E. R. Parkin , J. M. Pittard , M. G. Hoare , N. J. Wright , J. J. Drake

Our ability to predict the structure and evolution of stars is in part limited by complex, 3D hydrodynamic processes such as convective boundary mixing. Hydrodynamic simulations help us understand the dynamics of stellar convection and…