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When smooth granular material is fluidized by vertically shaking a container, we find that the temperature in the direction of energy input always exceeds the temperature in the other directions. An analytical model is presented which shows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Devaraj van der Meer , Peter Reimann

Both simulations and observations indicate that the so-called missing baryons reside in the intergalactic medium known as the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). In this study we employed the IllustrisTNG50-1 simulation to demonstrate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Yun Wang , Minxing Li , Ping He

In our recent works we proposed a theory of turbulence in inertial gas flow via the mean field effect of an intermolecular potential. We found that, in inertial flow, turbulence indeed spontaneously develops from a laminar initial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 Rafail V. Abramov

It has been suggested recently that `$q$-exponential' distributions which form the basis of Tsallis' non-extensive thermostatistical formalism may be viewed as mixtures of exponential (Gibbs) distributions characterized by a fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Touchette

Stellar feedback drives the circulation of matter from the disk to the halo of galaxies. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a vertical column of the interstellar medium with initial conditions typical of the…

We consider the single-particle velocity distribution of a one-dimensional fluid of inelastic particles. Both the freely evolving (cooling) system and the non-equilibrium stationary state obtained in the presence of random forcing are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Barrat , T. Biben , Z. Racz , E. Trizac , F. van Wijland

We use three-dimensional MHD simulations with anisotropic thermal conduction to study turbulence due to the magnetothermal instability (MTI) in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. The MTI grows on timescales of ~1 Gyr and is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ian J. Parrish , Michael McCourt , Eliot Quataert , Prateek Sharma

We perform a suite of simulations with realistic gravity and thermal balance in shells to quantify the role of the ratio of cooling time to the free-fall time ($t_{\rm cool}/t_{\rm ff}$) and the amplitude of density perturbations ($\delta…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Prakriti Pal Choudhury , Prateek Sharma , Eliot Quataert

The structure and dynamics of diffuse gas in the Milky Way and other disk galaxies may be strongly influenced by thermal and magnetorotational instabilities (TI and MRI) on scales of about 1-100 pc. We initiate a study of these processes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

We present results from high-resolution three-dimensional simulations of turbulent interstellar gas that self-consistently follow its coupled thermal, chemical and dynamical evolution, with a particular focus on the formation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. C. O. Glover , C. Federrath , M. -M. Mac Low , R. S. Klessen

Interstellar turbulence is driven over a wide range of scales by processes including spiral arm instabilities and supernovae, and it affects the rate and morphology of star formation, energy dissipation, and angular momentum transfer in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Bruce G. Elmegreen

We study magnetothermal instability in the ionized plasmas including the effects of Ohmic, ambipolar and Hall diffusion. Magnetic field in the single fluid approximation does not allow transverse thermal condensations, however, non-ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Mohsen Shadmehri , Mohsen Nejad-Asghar , Alireza Khesali

Large reservoirs of cold (~ 10^4 K) gas exist out to and beyond the virial radius in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of all types of galaxies. Photoionization modeling suggests that cold CGM gas has significantly lower densities than…

Gravitational instabilities play an important role in galaxy evolution and in shaping the interstellar medium (ISM). The ISM is observed to be highly turbulent, meaning that observables like the gas surface density and velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Oscar Agertz , Alessandro B. Romeo , Kearn Grisdale

The processes controlling the complex clump structure, phase distribution, and magnetic field geometry that develops across a broad range of scales in the turbulent interstellar medium remains unclear. Using unprecedentedly high resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 Drummond B. Fielding , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is responsive to kinetic disruptions generated by nearby astrophysical events. In this work, we study the saturation and dissipation of turbulent hydrodynamics within the CGM through an extensive array of 252…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 Alex Lv , Lile Wang , Renyue Cen , Luis C. Ho

The presence of cold ($T \lesssim 10^4$ K) gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies has been confirmed both in observations and high-resolution simulations, but its origin still represents a puzzle. Possible mechanisms are cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 Davide Decataldo , Sijing Shen , Lucio Mayer , Bernhard Baumschlager , Piero Madau

We consider a model of galaxy clusters in which the hot gas is in hydrostatic equilibrium and maintains energy balance between radiative cooling and heating by thermal conduction. We analyze the thermal stability of the gas using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Woong-Tae Kim , Ramesh Narayan

We extend the recently developed non-gaussian thermodynamic formalism \cite{tre98} of a (presumably strongly turbulent) non-Markovian medium to its most general form that allows for the formulation of a consistent thermodynamic theory. All…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Treumann

In circumstellar disks or shells it is often assumed that gas and dust temperatures are equal where the latter is determined by radiative equilibrium. This paper deals with the question whether this assumption is applicable for tenous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Inga Kamp , Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff