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Turbulent radiative mixing layers (TRMLs) play an important role in many astrophysical contexts where cool ($\lesssim 10^4$ K) clouds interact with hot flows (e.g., galactic winds, high velocity clouds, infalling satellites in halos and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-22 Matthew W. Abruzzo , Drummond B. Fielding , Greg L. Bryan

The ram-pressure acceleration of cold gas by hot outflows plays a crucial role in the dynamics of multiphase galactic winds. Recent numerical studies incorporating radiative cooling have identified a size threshold for idealized cold clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-17 Benedikt S. Seidl , Max Gronke , Ryan Jeffrey Farber , Klaus Dolag

Galactic and intergalactic flows often exhibit relative motion between the cold dense gas and the hot diffuse medium. Such multiphase flows -- involving gas at different temperatures, densities, and ionization states -- for instance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-07 Ritali Ghosh , Max Gronke , Prateek Sharma , Alankar Dutta

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) may fuel future star formation in the Milky Way, but they must first survive their passage through the hot halo. While recent work has improved our understanding of the survival criterion for cloud-wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Lori E. Porter , Matthew Abruzzo , Greg L. Bryan , Mary Putman , Yong Zheng , Drummond Fielding

Cold gas clouds embedded in a hot, turbulent medium are expected to be short-lived due to disruptive hydrodynamic instabilities. However, radiative cooling might allow such clouds to survive and grow. We present 3D \texttt{Athena++}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-17 Ashwin Vergis George , Hitesh Kishore Das , Max Gronke

We introduce a simple entropy-based formalism to characterize the role of mixing in pressure-balanced multiphase clouds, and demonstrate example applications using Enzo-E (magneto)hydrodynamic simulations. Under this formalism, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Matthew W. Abruzzo , Greg L. Bryan , Drummond B. Fielding

We explore the survival of cool clouds in multi-phase circum-galactic media. We revisit the "cloud crushing problem" in a large survey of simulations including radiative cooling, self-shielding, self-gravity, magnetic fields, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Zhihui Li , Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire , Cameron Hummels

Understanding the survival, growth and dynamics of cold gas is fundamental to galaxy formation. While there has been a plethora of work on `wind tunnel' simulations that study such cold gas in winds, the infall of this gas under gravity is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Brent Tan , S. Peng Oh , Max Gronke

We present a suite of high-resolution numerical simulations to study the evolution and survival of dust in hot galactic winds. We implement a novel dust framework in the Cholla hydrodynamics code and use wind tunnel simulations of cool,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 Helena M. Richie , Evan E. Schneider , Matthew W. Abruzzo , Paul Torrey

Multiphase outflows, revealed by multi-wavelength observations, are crucial in redistributing gas and metals within and around galaxies. These outflows are often modelled theoretically using wind tunnel simulations of a cold ($\sim 10^4$ K)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-10 Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma , Max Gronke

Multiphase galaxy winds, the accretion of cold gas through galaxy haloes, and gas stripping from jellyfish galaxies are examples of interactions between cold and hot gaseous phases. There are two important regimes in such systems. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-19 Martin Sparre , Christoph Pfrommer , Kristian Ehlert

Mixing by hydrodynamical instabilities plays a key role in cloud-wind interactions, causing cloud destruction in the adiabatic limit and facilitating cloud survival with efficient radiative cooling. However, the rate of mixing in numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-11 Hannah Leary , Helena M. Richie , Evan Schneider

The interaction of a hot, high-velocity wind with a cold, dense molecular cloud has often been assumed to resemble the evolution of a cloud embedded in a post-shock flow. However, no direct comparative study of these two processes currently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-15 K. J. A. Goldsmith , J. M. Pittard

Galactic outflows are a key agent of galaxy evolution, yet their observed multiphase nature remains difficult to reconcile with theoretical models, which often fail to explain how cold gas survives interactions with hot, fast winds. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Fernando Hidalgo-Pineda , Max Gronke , Philipp Grete

Astrophysical gases are commonly multiphase and highly turbulent. In this work, we investigate the survival and growth of cold gas in such a turbulent, multi-phase medium using three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations. Similar to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh , Suoqing Ji , Colin Norman

Much progress has been made recently in the acceleration of $\sim10^{4}$\,K clouds to explain absorption-line measurements of the circumgalactic medium and the warm, atomic phase of galactic winds. However, the origin of the cold, molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Ryan Jeffrey Farber , Max Gronke

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

Recent years have seen excellent progress in modeling the entrainment of T $\sim$ $10^4$K atomic gas in galactic winds. However, the entrainment of cool, dusty T $\sim$ 10-100K molecular gas, which is also observed outflowing at high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Zirui Chen , S. Peng Oh

Galactic outflows have a multiphase nature making them challenging to model analytically. Many previous studies have tried to produce models that come closer to reality. In this work, we continue these efforts and describe the interaction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-17 C. Nikolis , M. Gronke

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
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