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We study turbulent dissipation in the ISM and explore some implications for galaxy formation and evolution using 2D MHD numerical simulations of compressible fluids. The turbulent kinetic energy E_k is injected by stellar sources formed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Avila-Reese , E. Vázquez-Semadeni

The phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion in temperature-stratified turbulence causing a non-diffusive turbulent flux of inertial and non-inertial particles in the direction of the turbulent heat flux is found using direct numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-28 N. E. L. Haugen , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , A. Brandenburg

Lagrangian turbulence lies at the core of numerous applied and fundamental problems related to the physics of dispersion and mixing in engineering, bio-fluids, atmosphere, oceans, and astrophysics. Despite exceptional theoretical,…

The cold ($\sim 10^{4}\,{\rm K}$) component of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) accounts for a significant fraction of all galactic baryons. However, using current galaxy-scale simulations to determine the origin and evolution of cold CGM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-20 Iryna S. Butsky , Cameron B. Hummels , Philip F. Hopkins , Thomas R. Quinn , Jessica K. Werk

Starting from hydrodynamic equations, we have established a set of hydrodynamic equations for average flow and a set of dynamic equations of auto- and cross-correlations of turbulent velocity and temperature fluctuations, following the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 D. R. Xiong , L. Deng , C. Zhang

Modelling the sudden depressurisation of superheated liquids through nozzles is a challenge because the pressure drop causes rapid flash boiling of the liquid. The resulting jet usually demonstrates a wide range of structures, including…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-15 David Schmidt , Romit Maulik , Konstantinos G. Lyras

We investigate turbulent gas motions in spiral galaxies and their importance to star formation in far outer disks, where the column density is typically far below the critical value for spontaneous gravitational collapse. Following the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Erin Maier , Li-Hsin Chien , Deidre A. Hunter

Magnetised plasma turbulence pervades the universe and is likely to play an important role in a variety of astrophysical settings. Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) provides the simplest theoretical framework in which phenomenological models for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Joanne Mason , Jean C. Perez , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

We review the numerical techniques for ideal and non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) used in the context of star formation simulations. We outline the specific challenges offered by modeling star forming environments, which are dominated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Romain Teyssier , Benoit Commercon

Feedback from massive stars is one of the least understood aspects of galaxy formation. We perform a suite of vertically stratified local interstellar medium (ISM) simulations in which supernova rates and vertical gas column densities are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 M. Ryan Joung , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Greg L. Bryan

The sources of turbulence in our Galaxy may be diverse, but core-collapse supernovae (SNe) alone provide enough energy to sustain a steady-state galactic turbulence cascade at the observed velocity dispersion. By localizing and analyzing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 James R. Beattie

We use spherically symmetric hydrodynamic simulations to study the dynamical evolution and internal structure of superbubbles (SBs) driven by clustered supernovae (SNe), focusing on the effects of thermal conduction and cooling in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-09 Kareem El-Badry , Eve C. Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim , Eliot Quataert , Daniel R. Weisz

We propose that turbulent heating, wave pressure and gas exchanges between different regions of disks play a dominant role in determining the preferred, quasi-equilibrium, self-similar states of gas disks on large-scales. We present simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Curtis Struck , Daniel C. Smith

Major mergers are considered to be a significant source of turbulence in clusters. We performed a numerical simulation of a major merger event using nested-grid initial conditions, adaptive mesh refinement, radiative cooling of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 W. Schmidt , C. Byrohl , J. F. Engels , C. Behrens , J. C. Niemeyer

Rapid accretion of cold gas plays a crucial role in getting gas into galaxies. It has been suggested that this accretion proceeds along narrow streams that might also directly drive the turbulence in galactic gas, dynamical disturbances,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Norman Murray

Shell model turbulence is a simplified mathematical framework that captures essential features of incompressible fluid turbulence such as the energy cascade, intermittency and anomalous scaling of the fluid observables. We perform a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-09 James Creswell , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Yaron Oz

This paper introduces a novel mathematical framework for examining the regularity and energy dissipation properties of solutions to the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations. By integrating Sobolev-Besov hybrid spaces, fractional differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

A new computational method is presented to resolve hydrodynamic interactions acting on solid particles immersed in incompressible host fluids. In this method, boundaries between solid particles and host fluids are replaced with a continuous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Nakayama , R. Yamamoto

The supernova-driven interstellar medium in star-forming galaxies has Reynolds numbers of the order of $10^{6}$ or even larger. We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. de Avillez , D. Breitschwerdt

This article presents an innovative extension of the Smagorinsky model incorporating dynamic boundary conditions and advanced regularity methods. We formulate the modified Navier-Stokes equations with the Smagorinsky term to model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales
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