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We consider the transverse structure and stability properties of relativistic jets formed in the course of the collapse of a massive progenitor. Our numerical simulations show the presence of a strong shear in the bulk velocity of such…

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Plumes in a convective flow are considered to be relevant to the turbulent transport in convection. The effective mass, momentum, and heat transports in the convective turbulence are investigated in the framework of time--space double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Nobumitsu Yokoi , Youhei Masada , Tomoya Takiwaki

The onset of convection in a rapidly rotating layer in which a thermal wind is present is studied. Diffusive effects are included. The main motivation is from convection in planetary interiors, where thermal winds are expected due to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-09 Robert J. Teed , Chris A. Jones , Rainer Hollerbach

We investigate the linear and nonlinear evolution of current-carrying jets in a periodic configuration by means of high resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations. The jets under consideration are strongly magnetized with a variable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-09 M. Anjiri , A. Mignone , G. Bodo , P. Rossi

We analyse the size evolution of pebbles accreted into the gaseous envelope of a protoplanet growing in a protoplanetary disc, taking into account collisions driven by the relative sedimentation speed as well as the convective gas motion.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Anders Johansen , Åke Nordlund

The spontaneous spreading of non-volatile liquid droplets on solid substrates poses a classic problem in the context of wetting phenomena. It is well known that the spreading of a macroscopic droplet is in many cases accompanied by a thin…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-18 M. N. Popescu , G. Oshanin , S. Dietrich , A. -M. Cazabat

Mixing in the convective core is quite uncertain in core helium burning stars. In order to explore the overshooting mixing beyond the convective core, we incorporated the $k$-$\omega$ proposed by Li (2012, 2017) into MESA, and investigated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Yan Li , Xing-hao Chen , He-ran Xiong , Jun-jun Guo , Xue-fei Chen , Zhan-wen Han

Fluids subject to both thermal and compositional variations can undergo doubly diffusive convection when these properties both affect the fluid density and diffuse at different rates. A variety of patterns can arise from these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-04 J. Tumelty , C. Beaume , A. M. Rucklidge

High-resolution Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry observations of NGC 1052 show a two sided jet with several regions of enhanced emission and a clear emission gap between the two jets.This gap shrinks with increasing frequency and vanishes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 C. M. Fromm , Z. Younsi , A. Bazcko , Y. Mizuno , O. Porth , M. Perucho , H. Olivares , A. Nathanail , E. Angelakis , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus , L. Rezzolla

Idealized convection-permitting simulations of radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE) have become a popular tool for understanding the physical processes leading to horizontal variability of tropical water vapor and rainfall. However, the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Tom Beucler , Tristan Abbott , Timothy Cronin , Michael Pritchard

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are known to be associated with binary neutron star (NSNS) or black hole-neutron star (BHNS) mergers. The detection of gravitational wave and its associated electromagnetic counterparts GW/GRB 170817A has shown…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Gerardo Urrutia , Agnieszka Janiuk , Fatemeh Hossein Nouri

Semiconvection - mixing that occurs in regions that are stable when considering compositional gradients, but unstable when ignoring them - is shown to have the greatest potential impact on main sequence stars with masses in the range 1.2 -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Kevin Moore , Pascale Garaud

Diffusion in an evolving environment is studied by continuos-time Monte Carlo simulations. Diffusion is modelled by continuos-time random walkers on a lattice, in a dynamic environment provided by bubbles between two one-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Janne Juntunen , Juha Merikoski

The dispersion of solute in porous media shows a non-linear increase in the transition from diffusion to advection dominated dispersion as the flow velocity is raised. In the past, the behavior in this intermediate regime has been explained…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-23 B. Ph. van Milligen , P. D. Bons

In this study we investigate jet interaction at a microscopic level in a cosmological environment, which responds to a key open question in the study of relativistic jets. Using small simulation systems during prior research, we initially…

Convection in planets and stars is predicted to occur in the "ultimate regime'' of diffusivity-free, rapidly rotating turbulence, in which flows are characteristically unaffected by viscous and thermal diffusion. Boundary layer diffusion,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-21 Jewel A. Abbate , Yufan Xu , Tobias Vogt , Susanne Horn , Keith Julien , Jonathan M. Aurnou

We investigate the convective stability of a thin, infinite fluid layer with a rectangular cross-section, subject to imposed heat fluxes at the top and bottom and fixed temperature along the vertical sides. The instability threshold depends…

Recently our group analyzed how the probability distribution for the jet opening angle is modified in an ensemble of jets that has propagated through an expanding cooling droplet of plasma [1]. Each jet in the ensemble is represented…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Jasmine Brewer , Krishna Rajagopal , Andrey Sadofyev , Wilke van der Schee

The phenomenon of convection is found in a wide variety of settings on different scales -- from applications in the cooling technology of laptops to heating water on a stove, and from the movement of ocean currents to describing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-07 Harieth Mhina , Samira Souley Hassane , Matthew McCurdy

For analytical description of the initial stage of jet generation in nonequilibrium inhomogeneous plasma in the magnetohydrodynamic approximation, possible generalizations of solutions of the nonlinear equation for the stream function are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 S. N. Artekha