English
Related papers

Related papers: Exploring the Formation of Resistive Pseudodisks w…

200 papers

We present a new method of identifying protostellar disc fragments in a simulation based on density derivatives, and analyse our data using this and the existing CLUMPFIND method, which is based on an ordered search over all particles in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Cassandra Hall , Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice

Magic states are a foundational resource for universal quantum computation. To survive in a realistic noisy environment, magic states must be prepared fault-tolerantly and protected by a quantum error-correcting code. The recent discovery…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Dominic J. Williamson

It has been shown that a realistic level of magnetization of dense molecular cloud cores can suppress the formation of a rotationally supported disk (RSD) through catastrophic magnetic braking in the axisymmetric ideal MHD limit. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Bo Zhao , Paola Caselli , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Hsien Shang , Fumitaka Nakamura

The gas from which stars form is magnetized, and strong magnetic fields can efficiently transport angular momentum. Most theoretical models of this phenomenon find that it should prevent formation of large (>100 AU), rotationally-supported…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark R. Krumholz , Richard M. Crutcher , Charles L. H. Hull

We use high resolution 2D hydrodynamic simulations to study the formation of spiral substructure in the gaseous disk of a galaxy. The obtained gaseous response is driven by a self-consistent non-axisymmetric potential obtained from an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Miguel A. Yáñez , Michael L. Norman , Marco A. Martos , John C. Hayes

We evaluate an efficient overset grid method for two-dimensional and three-dimensional particulate flows for small numbers of particles at finite Reynolds number. The rigid particles are discretised using moving overset grids overlaid on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 A. R. Koblitz , S. Lovett , N. Nikiforakis , W. D. Henshaw

Protoplanetary discs at certain radii exhibit adverse radial entropy gradients that can drive oscillatory convection (`convective overstability'; COS). The ensuing hydrodynamical activity may reshape the radial thermal structure of the disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Robert J. Teed , Henrik H. Latter

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations based on the ideal MHD equations have become a powerful tool for modeling phenomena in a wide range of applications including laboratory, astrophysical, and space plasmas. In general, high-resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Hon-Cheng Wong , Un-Hong Wong , Xueshang Feng , Zesheng Tang

Rotation measure (RM) synthesis is a widely used polarization processing algorithm for reconstructing polarized structures along the line of sight. Performing RM synthesis on large datasets produced by telescopes like LOFAR can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 S. S. Sridhar , G. Heald , J. M. van der Hulst

This is the first paper about the fragmentation and mass outflow in the molecular cloud by using three-dimensional MHD nested-grid simulations. The binary star formation process is studied paying particular attention to the fragmentation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro N Machida , Kohji Tomisaka , Tomoaki Matsumoto

A new method for implementing the kinetic energy operator for real-space, grid-based electronic structure codes is developed. It is based on multi-order Adaptive Finite Differencing (AFD) and uses atomic pseudo orbitals produced by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 E. L. Briggs , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc

Solving the problem of fast eruptive events in magnetically dominated astrophysical plasmas requires the use of particularly well adapted numerical tools. Indeed, the central mechanism based on magnetic reconnection is determined by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Hubert Baty

We introduce Gradient Particle Magnetohydrodynamics (GPM), a new Lagrangian method for magnetohydrodynamics based on gradients corrected for the locally disordered particle distribution. The development of a numerical code for MHD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jason L. Maron , Gregory G. Howes

We describe a newly developed hydrodynamic code for studying accretion disk processes. The numerical method uses a finite volume, nonlinear, Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) scheme to capture shocks and control spurious oscillations. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 L. R. Mudryk , N. W. Murray

Mechanical metamaterials utilize geometry to achieve exceptional mechanical properties, including those not typically possible for traditional materials. To achieve these properties, it is necessary to identify the proper structures and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiakun Liu , Adam Taylor , Sage Fulco , Sumukh S. Pande , Kevin T. Turner

In the standard scenario of isolated low-mass star formation, strongly magnetized molecular clouds are envisioned to condense gradually into cores, driven by ambipolar diffusion. Once the cores become magnetically supercritical, they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

Small dust grains are essential ingredients of star, disk and planet formation. We present an Eulerian numerical approach to study small dust grains dynamics in the context of star and protoplanetary disk formation. It is designed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Ugo Lebreuilly , Benoît Commerçon , Guillaume Laibe

Numerical methods have become a powerful tool for research in astrophysics, but their utility depends critically on the availability of suitable simulation codes. This calls for continuous efforts in code development, which is necessitated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-19 Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor , Oliver Zier , Martin Reinecke

The MuST package is a computational software designed for ab initio electronic structure calculations for solids. The Locally Self-consistent Multiple Scattering (LSMS) method implemented in MuST allows to perform the electronic structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Xiao Liang , Edward Hanna , Derek Simmel , Hang Liu , Yang Wang

Higher order finite volume schemes for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) are very valuable because they allow us to carry out astrophysical simulations with very high accuracy. However, astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Deepak Bhoriya , Chetan Singh , Harish Kumar , Roger Käppeli , Federico Gatti