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We consider a layer of an inviscid fluid with free surface which is subject to vertical high-frequency vibrations. We derive three asymptotic systems of equations that describe slowly evolving (in comparison with the vibration frequency)…

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We use $N$-body simulations to investigate the excitation of bending waves in a Milky Way-like disc-bulge-halo system. The dark matter halo consists of a smooth component and a population of subhaloes while the disc is composed of thin and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 Matthew H. Chequers , Lawrence M. Widrow , Keir Darling

Acoustic perturbations to stellar envelopes can lead to the formation of weak shock waves via nonlinear wave-steepening. Close to the stellar surface, the weak shock wave increases in strength and can potentially lead to the expulsion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-14 Tamar Faran , Christopher D. Matzner , Eliot Quataert

Warped accretion discs of low viscosity are prone to hydrodynamic instability due to parametric resonance of inertial waves as confirmed by local simulations. Global simulations of warped discs, using either smoothed particle hydrodynamics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Hongping Deng , Gordon I. Ogilvie , Lucio Mayer

We present here a semi-analytical solution of the problem of particle acceleration at non-linear shock waves with a free escape boundary at some location upstream. This solution, besides allowing us to determine the spectrum of particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Caprioli , E. Amato , P. Blasi

This paper addresses resonantly forced spiral density waves in a dense planetary ring which is close to the threshold for viscous overstability. We solve numerically the hydrodynamical equations for a dense, axisymmetric thin disk in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Marius Lehmann , Juergen Schmidt , Heikki Salo

With hundreds of exoplanets detected, it is necessary to revisit giant planets accretion models to explain their mass distribution. In particular, formation of sub-jovian planets remains unclear, given the short timescale for the runaway…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Guillaume Rivier , Aurélien Crida , Alessandro Morbidelli , Yann Brouet

Theoretical models of protoplanetary disks including stellar irradiation often show a spontaneous amplification of scale height perturbations, produced by the enhanced absorption of starlight in enlarged regions. In turn, such regions cast…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Julio David Melon Fuksman , Hubert Klahr

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Xiaoxiao Xiong , Reo Yanagi , Tingtao Zhou , Chiara Daraio

Motivated by understanding the nonlinear gravitational dynamics of spacetimes admitting stably trapped null geodesics, such as ultracompact objects and black string solutions to general relativity, we explore the dynamics of nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Gabriele Benomio , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Frans Pretorius , Andrew Sullivan

Gaia recently revealed a two-armed spiral pattern in the vertical phase-space distribution of the inner Galactic disk (guiding radius $R_\textrm{g} \sim 6.2$ kpc), indicating that some non-adiabatic perturbation symmetric about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Rimpei Chiba , Neige Frankel , Chris Hamilton

Spiral arms are distinctive features of many circumstellar disks, observed in scattered light, which traces the disk surface, millimeter dust emission, which probes the disk midplane, as well as molecular emission. The two leading…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Hans Baehr , Zhaohuan Zhu

We demonstrate numerical techniques for automatic identification of individual spiral arms in hydrodynamic simulations of astrophysical discs. Building on our earlier work, which used tensor classification to identify regions that were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 D. H. Forgan , F. G. Ramón-Fox , I. A. Bonnell

We study the linear perturbations of collisionless near-Keplerian discs. Such systems are models for debris discs around stars and the stellar discs surrounding supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies. Using a finite-element…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mir Abbas Jalali , Scott Tremaine

Some circumstellar disks are observed to show prominent spiral arms in infrared scattered light or (sub-)millimeter dust continuum. The spirals might be formed from self-gravity, shadows, or planet-disk interactions. Recently, it was…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Pinghui Huang , Ruobing Dong , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Jianghui Ji

We present numerical simulations of misaligned discs around a spinning black hole covering a range of parameters. Previous simulations have shown that discs that are strongly warped by a forced precession -- in this case the Lense-Thirring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Anagha Raj , Chris Nixon , Suzan Dogan

Astrophysical disks that are sufficiently cold and dense are linearly unstable to the formation of axisymmetric rings as a result of the disk's gravity. In practice, spiral structures are formed, which may in turn produce bound fragments.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hongping Deng , Gordon I. Ogilvie

In a weakly excitable medium, characterized by a large threshold stimulus, the free end of an isolated broken plane wave (wave tip) can either rotate (steadily or unsteadily) around a large excitable core, thereby producing a spiral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Vincent Hakim , Alain Karma

We perform 2D and 3D numerical simulations of an accretion disc in a close binary system using the Simplified Flux vector Splitting (SFS) finite volume method. In our calculations, gas is assumed to be the ideal one, and we calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Makoto Makita , Kenji Miyawaki , Takuya Matsuda

We propose a non-perturbative attempt to solve the kinematic equations for spiral waves in excitable media. From the eikonal equation for the wave front we derive an implicit analytical relation between rotation frequency $\Omega$ and core…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-12 Jakob Löber , Harald Engel