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Aims. This series of papers aims at building a new formalism specifically tailored to study the impact of turbulence on the global modes of oscillation in solar-like stars. This first paper aims at deriving a linear wave equation that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 J. Philidet , K. Belkacem , M. -J. Goupil

We present observations of the CO isotopologues ($^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and C$^{18}$O) toward the Galactic region with $169\arcdeg.75 \leqslant l \leqslant 174\arcdeg.75$ and $-0\arcdeg.75 \leqslant b \leqslant 0\arcdeg.5$, using the Purple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-22 Fang Xiong , Xuepeng Chen , Qizhou Zhang , Ji Yang , Min Fang , Miaomiao Zhang , Weihua Guo , Li Sun

Line emission is strongly dependent on the local environmental conditions in which the emitting tracers reside. In this work, we focus on modelling the CO emission from simulated giant molecular clouds (GMCs), and study the variations in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Camilo H. Peñaloza , Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

We compare velocity structure in the Polaris Flare molecular cloud at scales ranging from 0.015 pc to 20 pc to simulations of supersonic hydrodynamic and MHD turbulence computed with the ZEUS MHD code. We use several different statistical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Ossenkopf , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

A new scenario for the interaction of a jet with a background medium with cold clouds is investigated by means of hydrodynamic turbulence simulations with cooling. The idea is that the cold clouds are overtaken by a radio cocoon and stirred…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Krause

Engineering design and scientific analysis rely upon computer simulations of turbulent fluid flows using turbulence models. These turbulence models are empirical and approximate, leading to large uncertainties in their predictions that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-28 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

We present synthetic Hi and CO observations of a simulation of decaying turbulence in the thermally bistable neutral medium. We first present the simulation, with clouds initially consisting of clustered clumps. Self-gravity causes these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Jonathan S. Heiner , Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni , Javier Ballesteros-Paredes

Previous studies have shown that star formation depends on the driving of molecular cloud turbulence, and differences in the driving can produce an order of magnitude difference in the star formation rate. The turbulent driving is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 C. A. Herron , C. Federrath , B. M. Gaensler , G. F. Lewis , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , Blakesley Burkhart

This paper deals with determination of turbulent convection velocities from particle image velocimetry (PIV). Turbulent convection velocities are of interest because they can be used to map temporal information into space. Convection…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-26 Roeland de Kat , Lian Gan , James R Dawson , Bharathram Ganapathisubramani

We demonstrate the capability of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) as applied by Heyer & Schloerb (1997) to extract the statistics of turbulent interstellar velocity fields as measured by the energy spectrum, E(k)= k^-beta. Turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Brunt , M. H. Heyer

Global spectral analysis (GSA) is used as a tool to test the accuracy of numerical methods with the help of canonical problems of convection and convection-diffusion equation which admit exact solutions. Similarly, events in turbulent flows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Tapan K. Sengupta , Suman V. K. , Prasannabalaji Sundaram , Aditi Sengupta

Turbulent fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer are key input for the prediction of weather, hydrology, and carbon dioxide concentration. In numerical modelling of turbulent fluxes, a -7/3 power-law scaling in turbulence cospectra is…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Yu Cheng , Qi Li , Andrey Grachev , Stefania Argentini , Harindra J. S. Fernando , Pierre Gentine

A one-dimensional turbulent convection model in the form of a time-dependent diffusion equation for the turbulent energy is incorporated into our numerical pulsation code. The effect of turbulent convection on the structural rearrangement…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 P. A. Yecko , Z. Kollath , J. R. Buchler

Through laboratory measurements, we compare the rotation of spherical and ellipsoidal particles in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. We find that the particles' angular velocity statistics are well described by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-16 Colin R. Meyer , Evan A. Variano

The interaction of a shock with a cloud has been extensively studied in the literature, where the effects of magnetic fields, radiative cooling and thermal conduction have been considered. However, the formation of fully developed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Pittard , S. A. E. G. Falle , T. W. Hartquist , J. E. Dyson

Turbulence in curved spacetimes in general, and in the vicinity of black holes (BHs) in particular, represents a poorly understood phenomenon that is often analysed employing techniques developed for flat spacetimes. We here propose a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Rita Megale , Alejandro Cruz-Osorio , Giuseppe Ficarra , Mario Imbrogno , Claudio Meringolo , Leonardo Primavera , Luciano Rezzolla , Sergio Servidio

Supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds is a dominant agent that strongly affects the clouds' evolution and star formation activity. Turbulence may be initiated and maintained by a number of processes, acting at a wide range of physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 C. M. Brunt , M. H. Heyer , M. -M. Mac Low

Star formation is intimately linked to the dynamical evolution of molecular clouds. Turbulent fragmentation determines where and when protostellar cores form, and how they contract and grow in mass via accretion from the surrounding cloud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf Klessen

We have experimentally studied the degradation of mode purity for light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) propagating through simulated atmospheric turbulence. The turbulence is modeled as a randomly varying phase aberration,…

Coherent structures created through turbulent cascades play a key role in energy dissipation and particle acceleration. In this work, we investigate both current and vorticity sheets in 3D particle-in-cell simulations of decaying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Zachary Davis , Luca Comisso , Colby Haggerty , Joonas Nättilä