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We present 2D adiabatic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a shock interacting with groups of two or three cylindrical clouds. We study how the presence of a nearby cloud influences the dynamics of this interaction, and explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Alūzas , J. M. Pittard , S. A. E. G. Falle , T. W. Hartquist

Connecting numerical simulations to observations is essential to understanding the physics of galactic winds. Our Galaxy hosts a large-scale, multi-phase nuclear wind, whose dense gas has been detected using HI and molecular line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-12 Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán , Andrei Antipov , Daniel Villarruel

Astrophysical gases such as the interstellar-, circumgalactic- or intracluster-medium are commonly multiphase, which poses the question of the structure of these systems. While there are many known processes leading to fragmentation of cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-18 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

Galactic outflows produced by stellar feedback are known to be multiphase in nature. Both observations and simulations indicate that the material within several kpc of galactic disk mid-planes consists of warm clouds embedded within a hot…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Aditi Vijayan , Chang-Goo Kim , Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Miao Li

Interstellar gas clouds are often both highly magnetized and supersonically turbulent, with velocity dispersions set by a competition between driving and dissipation. This balance has been studied extensively in the context of gases with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-19 Yuval Birnboim , Christoph Federrath , Mark Krumholz

The physical origin of high velocity cool gas seen in galactic winds remains unknown. Following Wang (1995), we argue that radiative cooling in initially hot thermally-driven outflows can produce fast neutral atomic and photoionized cool…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert , Dong Zhang , David Weinberg

We report three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of shocks (${\cal M_{\rm shock}}\geq 4$) interacting with fractal multicloud layers. The evolution of shock-multicloud systems consists of four stages: a shock-splitting phase in which…

Cloud-wind interactions are common in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Many studies have used simulations of such interactions to investigate the effect of particular physical processes, but the impact of the choice of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Joey Braspenning , Joop Schaye , Josh Borrow , Matthieu Schaller

Galaxies comprise intricate networks of interdependent processes which together govern their evolution. Central among these are the multiplicity of feedback channels, which remain incompletely understood. One outstanding problem is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-11 Brent Tan , Drummond B. Fielding

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

We have performed a series of three-dimensional simulations of the interaction of a supersonic wind with a non-spherical radiative cloud. These simulations are motivated by our recent three-dimensional model of a starburst-driven galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 J. L. Cooper , G. V. Bicknell , R. S. Sutherland , J. Bland-Hawthorn

Bathed in intense ionizing radiation, close-in gaseous planets undergo hydrodynamic atmospheric escape, which ejects the upper extent of their atmospheres into the interplanetary medium. Ultraviolet detections of escaping gas around…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 John R. McCann , Ruth A. Murray-Clay , Kaitlin Kratter , Mark R. Krumholz

Using numerical techniques we studied the global stability of cooling flows in giant elliptical galaxies. As an initial equilibrium state we choose the hydrostatic gas recycling model (Kritsuk 1996). Non-equilibrium radiative cooling,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Kritsuk , H. Boehringer , E. Mueller

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

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

Superwinds and superbubbles driven by mechanical feedback from super star clusters (SSCs) are common features in many star-forming galaxies. While the adiabatic fluid model can well describe the dynamics of superwinds, several observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-05 Ashkbiz Danehkar , M. S. Oey , William J. Gray

It has been suggested that star-forming galaxies may host a substantial, dark reservoir of gas in the form of planetary-mass molecular clouds that are so cold that $\text{H}_{2}$ can condense. Here we investigate the process of tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Arthur G. Suvorov , Mark A. Walker

We revisit the problem of the growth of dense/cold gas in the cloud-crushing setup with radiative cooling. The relative motion between the dense cloud and the diffuse medium produces a turbulent boundary layer of mixed gas with a short…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-23 Vijit Kanjilal , Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma

A hydrodynamic model for steady state, spherically-symmetric winds driven by young stellar clusters with an exponential stellar density distribution is presented. Unlike in most previous calculations, the position of the singular point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sergiy Silich , Gennadiy Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle , Sergio Martinez-Gonzalez

To better understand the nature of the multiphase material found in outflowing galaxies, we study the evolution of cold clouds embedded in flows of hot and fast material. Using a suite of adaptive-mesh refinement simulations that include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen