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Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability commonly arises in compressible systems with time-dependent acceleration in practical applications. To capture the complex dynamics of such systems, a two-component discrete Boltzmann method is developed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Hao Xu , Hailong Liu , Demei Li , Bailing Chen

Statistics of the magnetic field disturbances in the supernova remnants (SNRs) can be accessed using the second-order correlation function of the synchrotron intensities. Here we measure the magnetic energy spectra in supernova remnant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-15 Pavan Kumar Vishwakarma , Jais Kumar

Gamma-rays from hadronic collisions are expected from supernova remnants (SNRs) located near molecular clouds. The temperature on the shock interacting with the dense environment quickly reaches $10^5$ K. The radiative losses of plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 O. Petruk , T. Kuzyo , V. Beshley

Supernovae explosions of massive stars are nowadays believed to result from a two-step process, with an initial gravitational core collapse followed by an expansion of matter after a bouncing on the core. This scenario meets several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Bruno Denet , Martine Le Berre , Yves Pomeau

A two-dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulation with the realistic ion-to-electron mass ratio of 1836 is carried out to investigate the electrostatic collisionless shocks in relatively high-speed (~3000 km s^-1) plasma flows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-12 Tsunehiko N. Kato , Hideaki Takabe

As supernova remnants (SNRs) age, they become efficient cosmic ray accelerators at their outer shell shocks. The current paradigm for shock acceleration theory favors turbulent field environs in the proximity of these shocks, turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Matthew G. Baring

Nuclear shell burning in the final stages of the lives of massive stars is accompanied by strong turbulent convection. The resulting fluctuations aid supernova explosion by amplifying the non-radial flow in the post-shock region. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Ernazar Abdikamalov , Azamat Zhaksylykov , David Radice , Shapagat Berdibek

In this work we suggest that a turbulent phase of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability can be explained as a universal stochastic wave traveling with constant speed in a properly renormalized system. This wave, originating from ordinary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-16 Alexei A. Mailybaev

Using nonlinear, fully relativistic, simulations we investigate the dynamics and gravitational-wave signature associated with instabilities in neutron star postmerger remnants. For simplified models of the remnant we establish the presence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Xiaoyi Xie , Ian Hawke , Andrea Passamonti , Nils Andersson

The commonly applied self-similar solution of the problem of the converging shock wave (shock) evolution with constant compression of the medium behind the shock front results in an unlimited increase of the medium velocity in the vicinity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-15 Sergey G. Chefranov , Yakov E. Krasik , Alexander Rososhek

The present understanding of supernova explosion of massive stars as a two-step process, with an initial gravitational collapse toward the center of the star followed by an expansion of matter after a bouncing on the core, meets several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Bruno Denet , Martine Le Berre , Yves Pomeau

Electrostatic Gravitational or Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in an inhomogeneous magnetized multi-ions plasma with some fraction of quantum mechanical electrons. The effect of Bohm potential, temperature degeneracy and magnetic field are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 A. Mushtaq , Sajad Ali , Zahida Ehsan

We investigated the efficiency of coherent upstream large-amplitude electromagnetic wave emission via synchrotron maser instability at relativistic magnetized shocks by using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. We considered the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-08 Masanori Iwamoto , Takanobu Amano , Masahiro Hoshino , Yosuke Matsumoto

The shocks of several young supernova remnants (SNR) are often associated with very thin optical filaments dominated by Balmer emission resulting from charge-exchange and collisional excitation between neutral Hydrogen from the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Giovanni Morlino

Diffusive shock acceleration is considered as the main mechanism for particle energization in supernova remnants, as well as in other classes of sources. The existence of some remnants that show a bilateral morphology in the X-rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Pierre Cristofari , Pasquale Blasi

This work investigates the morphological stability of a soft body composed of two heavy elastic layers, attached to a rigid surface and subjected only to the bulk gravity force. Using theoretical and computational tools, we characterize the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-21 Davide Riccobelli , Pasquale Ciarletta

In this work a non-trivial effect of the interfacial curvature on the stability of accelerated interfaces, such as liquid rims, is uncovered. The new stability analysis, based on operator and boundary perturbation theories, reveals and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-04-28 Rouslan Krechetnikov

The role of the non-resonant firehose instability in conditions relevant to the precursors of supernova remnant shocks is considered. Using a second order tensor expansion of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation we illustrate the necessary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 R. Scott , B. Reville , A. Spitkovsky

The linear theory of shock acceleration predicts the maximum particle energy to be limited only by the acceleration time and the size of the shock. We study the combined effect of acceleration nonlinearity (shock modification by accelerated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond , T. W. Jones

At the superfluid-solid 4He interface there exist crystallization waves having much in common with gravitational-capillary waves at the interface between two normal fluids. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is an instability of the interface…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 S. N. Burmistrov , L. B. Dubovskii , V. L. Tsymbalenko