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In weakly-collisional plasmas such as the intracluster medium (ICM), heat and momentum transport become anisotropic with respect to the local magnetic field direction. Anisotropic heat conduction causes the slow magnetosonic wave to become…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthew W. Kunz

Here we study thermodynamic properties of an important class of single-chain magnets (SCMs), where alternate units are isotropic and anisotropic with anisotropy axes being non-collinear. This class of SCMs shows slow relaxation at low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-29 Shaon Sahoo , Jean-Pascal Sutter , S. Ramasesha

Weakly collisional plasmas dynamically develop pressure anisotropies with respect to the magnetic field. These anisotropies trigger plasma instabilities at scales just above the ion Larmor radius \rho_i and much below the mean free path…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 M. S. Rosin , A. A. Schekochihin , F. Rincon , S. C. Cowley

In the hot intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters, plasma microinstabilities may play an important role in the transport of heat and momentum on the large scales. In this paper, we continue our investigation of the effect of whistler…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Lorenzo Maria Perrone , Thomas Berlok , Christoph Pfrommer

The role played by magnetic fields in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters is complex. The weakly collisional nature of the ICM leads to thermal conduction that is channelled along field lines. This anisotropic heat conduction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mark J. Avara , Christopher Reynolds , Tamara Bogdanović

We present results from the first 3D kinetic numerical simulation of magnetorotational turbulence and dynamo, using the local shearing-box model of a collisionless accretion disc. The kinetic magnetorotational instability grows from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Matthew W. Kunz , James M. Stone , Eliot Quataert

We present results from a large set of N-body/SPH hydrodynamical cluster simulations aimed at studying the statistical properties of turbulence in the ICM. The numerical hydrodynamical scheme employs a SPH formulation in which gradient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 R. Valdarnini

This paper investigates an induction heating problem in a multi-component system containing a moving non-magnetic conductor. The electromagnetic process is described by the eddy current model, and the heat transfer process is governed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Van Chien Le , Marián Slodička , Karel Van Bockstal

In this contribution, we validate a physical model based on a transient temperature equation (including latent heat) w.r.t. the experimental set AMB2018-02 provided within the additive manufacturing benchmark series, established at the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Stefan Kollmannsberger , Massimo Carraturo , Alessandro Reali , Ferdinando Auricchio

Previous works have clearly shown the existence of winds from black hole hot accretion flow and investigated their detailed properties. In extremely low accretion rate systems, the collisional mean-free path of electrons is large compared…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 De-Fu Bu , Mao-Chun Wu , Ye-Fei Yuan

The role of anisotropic thermal diffusivity on tearing mode stability is analysed in general toroidal geometry. A dispersion relation linking the growth rate to the tearing mode stability parameter, Delta, is derived. By using a resistive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 J. W. Connor , C. J. Ham , R. J. Hastie , Y. Q. Liu

The expanding solar wind plasma ubiquitously exhibits anisotropic non-thermal particle velocity distributions. Typically, proton Velocity Distribution Functions (VDFs) show the presence of a core and a field-aligned beam. Novel observations…

A theory for thermodynamic induction (TI) under isothermal conditions is presented. This includes a treatment of the Helmholtz free energy budget available for a gate variable to utilize towards aiding another variable's approach towards…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 S. N. Patitsas

We investigate electrical charge transport in hot magnetized plasma using first-principles quantum field theoretical methods. By employing Kubo's linear response theory, we express the electrical conductivity tensor in terms of the fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-21 Ritesh Ghosh , Igor A. Shovkovy

The distribution of metals and temperature in the intracluster medium (ICM) provides key insights into galaxy cluster evolution, revealing information about chemical enrichment and heating and cooling processes, respectively. To access this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-01 Yiwei Zhang , Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai

We present numerical simulations of galaxy clusters with stochastic heating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) that are able to reproduce the observed entropy and temperature profiles of non-cool-core (NCC) clusters. Our study uses N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-30 C. J. Short , P. A. Thomas , O. E. Young

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study supercritical fluids near the gas-liquid critical point under heat flow in two dimensions. We calculate the steady-state temperature and density profiles. The resultant thermal conductivity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Toshiyuki Hamanaka , Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

In this study we explore the complex multi-phase gas of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies. We propose and implement a novel, super-Lagrangian 'CGM zoom' scheme in the moving-mesh code AREPO, which focuses more resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Joshua Suresh , Dylan Nelson , Shy Genel , Kate Rubin , Lars Hernquist

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an integral part of the non-thermal pressure budget in the interstellar medium (ISM) and are the leading-order ionization mechanism in cold molecular clouds. We study the impacts that different microphysical CR…

We run numerical simulations of molecular clouds (MCs), adopting properties similar to those found in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way. For this, we employ the moving mesh code Arepo and perform simulations which account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Erik Bertram , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Sarah E. Ragan , Ralf S. Klessen
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