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An initially planar shock wave propagating into a medium of non-uniform density will be perturbed, leading to the generation of post-shock velocity perturbations. Using numerical simulations we study this phenomenon in the case of…

The hydrodynamic state of the interstellar medium (ISM) heated and randomly stirred by supernovae (SNe) is investigated. We use a three-dimensional non-ideal hydrodynamic ISM model in a domain extending 0.5 x 0.5 kpc horizontally and 2 kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-04 Frederick Gent , Maarit J. Mantere , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher , Graeme R. Sarson

During the formation of large-scale structures in the universe, weak internal shocks are induced within the hot ICM, while strong accretion shocks arise in the WHIM within filaments, and the warm-cold gas in voids surrounding galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Hyesung Kang

The injection of turbulence in the circum-galactic medium at redshift z = 2 is investigated using the mesh-based hydrodynamic code Enzo and a subgrid-scale (SGS) model for unresolved turbulence. Radiative cooling and heating by a uniform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-18 Luigi Iapichino , Matteo Viel , Stefano Borgani

We analyzed absorption features arising from interstellar neutral carbon that appeared in the UV spectra of 89 stars recorded in the highest resolution echelle modes of STIS on HST so that we could determine the relative populations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-30 Edward B. Jenkins , Todd M. Tripp

In this paper, we investigate the structure of condensation fronts from warm diffuse gas to cold neutral medium (CNM) under the plane parallel geometry. The solutions have two parameters, the pressure of the CNM and the mass flux across the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

In this paper, the nonlinear evolution of a bistable interstellar medium is investigated using two-dimensional simulations with a realistic cooling rate, thermal conduction, and physical viscosity. The calculations are performed using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kazunari Iwasaki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Shocks, modelled over a broad range of parameters, are used to construct a new tool to deduce the mechanical energy and physical conditions from observed atomic or molecular emission lines. We compute magnetised, molecular shock models with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Andrew Lehmann , Benjamin Godard , Gillaume Pineau des Forêts , Alba Vidal-García , Edith Falgarone

Aims. We probe the effect of turbulent diffusion on the chemistry at the interface between a cold neutral medium (CNM) cloudlet and the warm neutral medium (WNM). Methods. We perform moving grid, multifluid, 1D, hydrodynamical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Lesaffre , M. Gerin , P. Hennebelle

We experimentally investigate the interplay between spatial shock waves and the degree of disorder during nonlinear optical propagation in a thermal defocusing medium. We characterize the way the shock point is affected by the amount of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Ghofraniha , S. Gentilini , V. Folli , E. DelRe , C. Conti

Plasma shock waves widely exist and play an important role in high-energy-density environment, especially in the inertial confinement fusion. Due to the large gradient of macroscopic physical quantities and the coupled thermal, electrical,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Zhipeng Liu , Jiahui Song , Aiguo Xu , Yudong Zhang , Kan Xie

We propose a model for the density statistics in supersonic turbulence, which play a crucial role in star-formation and the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM). Motivated by [Hopkins, MNRAS, 430, 1880 (2013)], the model considers the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins

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 propagation of a shock wave into an interstellar medium is investigated by two-dimensional numerical hydrodynamic calculation with cooling, heating and thermal conduction. We present results of the high-resolution two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroshi Koyama , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

A local turbulence model is developed to study energy cascades in the interstellar medium (ISM) based on self-consistent two-dimensional fluid simulations. The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid interstellar medium (ISM) that…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , Gary P. Zank

We use the Gurevich-Pitaevskii approach based on the Whitham averaging method for studying the formation of dispersive shock waves in an intense light pulse propagating through a saturable nonlinear medium. Although the Whitham modulation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-23 Sergey K. Ivanov , Jules-Elemir Suchorski , Anatoly M. Kamchatnov , Mathieu Isoard , Nicolas Pavloff

A collisionless shock wave is treated as a streaming plasma instability in the interstellar medium (ISM). We assume that in a steady state, this instability propagates through the ISM as a self-driven plasma instability, whereby the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-30 Vladimir Zekovic , Bojan Arbutina

Strong non-relativistic shocks are known to accelerate particles up to relativistic energies. However, for Diffusive Shock Acceleration electrons must have a highly suprathermal energy, implying a need for very efficient pre-acceleration.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Karol Fulat , Artem Bohdan , Gabriel Torralba Paz , Martin Pohl

The diffuse interstellar medium is dynamic, and its chemistry and evolution is determined by shock fronts as well as photodissociation. Shocks are implied by the supersonic motions and velocity dispersion often statistically called…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 William T. Reach , Carl Heiles

We examine observational characteristics of multi-phase turbulent flows in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) using a synthetic radiation field of atomic and molecular lines. We consider the multi-phase ISM which is formed by thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Yamada , H. Koyama , K. Omukai , S. Inutsuka