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Different hydrodynamic regimes for the gaseous outflows generated by multiple supernovae explosions and stellar winds occurring within compact and massive star clusters are discussed. It is shown that there exists the threshold energy that…

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Photoionizing radiation and stellar winds from massive stars deposit energy and momentum into the interstellar medium (ISM). They might disperse the local ISM, change its turbulent multi-phase structure, and even regulate star formation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Sebastian Haid , Stefanie Walch , Daniel Seifried , Richard Wünsch , František Dinnbier , Thorsten Naab

The role of different stellar feedback mechanisms in giant molecular clouds is not well understood. This is especially true for regions with many interacting clouds as would be found in a galactic spiral arm. In this paper, building on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-13 Ahmad A. Ali , Thomas J. R. Bending , Clare L. Dobbs

We present a suite of cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of the assembly of galaxies driving the reionization of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z >~ 6. The simulations account for the hydrodynamical feedback from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-11 Andreas H. Pawlik , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

The ultraviolet background (UVB) emitted by quasars and galaxies governs the ionization and thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM), regulates the formation of high-redshift galaxies, and is thus a key quantity for modeling cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-20 Jose Oñorbe , Joseph F Hennawi , Zarija Lukić

We study the impact of stellar winds and supernovae on the multi-phase interstellar medium using three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations carried out with FLASH. The selected galactic disc region has a size of (500 pc)$^2$ x $\pm$ 5 kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 A. Gatto , S. Walch , T. Naab , P. Girichidis , R. Wünsch , S. C. O. Glover , R. S. Klessen , P. C. Clark , T. Peters , D. Derigs , C. Baczynski , J. Puls

This work is the continuation of a series attempting to characterize the local warm ionized medium through both static and time dependent simulations. We build upon our three dimensional, observationally-derived simulation of the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Lewis McCallum , Kenneth Wood , Robert Benjamin , Dhanesh Krishnarao , Anna F. McLeod

The study of the interaction between solid objects and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids is of great importance in physics as consequence of the significant phenomena generated, such as planets interacting with stellar wind produced by their…

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Pittard

Galactic outflows from local starburst galaxies typically exhibit a layered geometry, with cool $10^4\,$K flow sheathing a hotter $10^7\,$K, cylindrically-collimated, X-ray emitting plasma. Here, we argue that winds driven by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-22 Dustin D. Nguyen , Todd A. Thompson

We examine the effect of momentum-driven OB-star stellar winds on a parameter space of simulated turbulent Giant Molecular Clouds using SPH hydrodynamical simulations. By comparison with identical simulations in which ionizing radiation was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 J. E. Dale , J. Ngoumou , B. Ercolano , I. A. Bonnell

In this contribution I summarize our current knowledge of the nature and significance of starburst-driven galactic winds (``superwinds''). Superwinds are complex multiphase outflows of cool, warm, and hot gas, dust, and magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy M. Heckman

We propose a model of starburst--driven galactic outflows whose dynamics depends on both radiation and thermal pressure. Standard models of thermal pressure--driven winds fail to explain some key observations of outflows at low and high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Biman B. Nath , Joseph Silk

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

The powerful wind-wind collision in massive star binaries creates a region of high temperature plasma and accelerates particles to relativistic energies. I briefly summarize the hydrodynamics of the wind-wind interaction and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-21 J. M. Pittard

We have developed a self-consistent physical model for super stellar cluster winds based on combining a 1-D steady-state adiabatic wind solution and a non-equilibrium ionization calculation. Comparing with the case of collisional ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Li Ji , Q. Daniel Wang , John Kwan

Properties of candidate stars, forming out of molecular clouds, depend on the ambient conditions of the parent cloud. We present a series of 2D and 3D simulations of fragmentation of molecular clouds in starburst regions as well as clouds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 S. Hocuk , M. Spaans

We present high resolution simulations on the impact of ionizing radiation of massive O-stars on the surrounding turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). The simulations are performed with the newly developed software iVINE which combines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthias Gritschneder , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Andreas Burkert , Fabian Heitsch

Winds from young massive stars contribute a large amount of energy to their host molecular clouds. This has consequences for the dynamics and observable structure of star-forming clouds. In this paper, we present radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Sam Geen , Rebekka Bieri , Joakim Rosdahl , Alex de Koter

Star formation, together with the associated chemical and energy feedback, is one of the most important processes in galaxy evolution. The star formation activity in galaxies defines and affects many of their fundamental properties, such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Ezequiel Lozano , Cecilia Scannapieco , Sebastian E. Nuza