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Galactic outflows produced by stellar feedback are known to be multiphase in nature. Both observations and simulations indicate that the material within several kpc of galactic disk mid-planes consists of warm clouds embedded within a hot…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Aditi Vijayan , Chang-Goo Kim , Lucia Armillotta , Eve C. Ostriker , Miao Li

We conduct two kinds of homogeneous isotropic turbulence simulations relevant for the intracluster medium (ICM): (i) pure turbulence runs without radiative cooling; (ii) turbulent heating$+$radiative cooling runs with global thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Prateek Sharma

We provide a brief overview of recent advances and outstanding issues in simulations of interstellar turbulence, including isothermal models for interior structure of molecular clouds and larger-scale multiphase models designed to simulate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-05 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Sergey D. Ustyugov , Michael L. Norman

Using one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations including interstellar heating, cooling, and thermal conduction, we investigate nonlinear evolution of gas flow across galactic spiral arms. We model the gas as a non-self-gravitating,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

We present a linear analysis of acoustic and thermo-reactive instabilities in a diffuse gas, photoionized and heated by a radiation field, cooled by collisional excitation of hydrogen and metal lines. The hydrogen recombination reaction has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Edvige Corbelli , Andrea Ferrara

Magnetic fields are a dynamically important component of the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) of star-forming galaxies. These magnetic fields are due to a dynamo action, which is a process of converting turbulent kinetic energy to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

We analyze the structure and stability of the transition layer (or front) that connects the cold neutral medium and warm neutral medium in the plane-parallel geometry. Such fronts appear in recent numerical simulations of a thermally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Hiroshi Koyama

This chapter reviews the nature of turbulence in the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) and its connections to the star formation (SF) process. The ISM is turbulent, magnetized, self-gravitating, and is subject to heating and cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

Major mergers are considered to be a significant source of turbulence in clusters. We performed a numerical simulation of a major merger event using nested-grid initial conditions, adaptive mesh refinement, radiative cooling of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 W. Schmidt , C. Byrohl , J. F. Engels , C. Behrens , J. C. Niemeyer

We discuss HD and MHD compressible turbulence as a cloud-forming and cloud-structuring mechanism in the ISM. Results from a numerical model of the turbulent ISM at large scales suggest that the phase-like appearance of the medium, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni

The hydrodynamic state of the interstellar medium (ISM) heated and randomly stirred by supernovae (SNe) is investigated. We use a three-dimensional non-ideal hydrodynamic ISM model in a domain extending 0.5 x 0.5 kpc horizontally and 2 kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-04 Frederick Gent , Maarit J. Mantere , Anvar Shukurov , Andrew Fletcher , Graeme R. Sarson

The interstellar medium of galaxies is governed by supersonic turbulence, which likely controls the star formation rate (SFR) and the initial mass function (IMF). Interstellar turbulence is non-universal, with a wide range of Mach numbers,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-13 Christoph Federrath , Supratik Banerjee

We examine the thermodynamic state and cooling of the low-$z$ Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM) in five FIRE-2 galaxy formation simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies. We find that the CGM in these simulations is generally multiphase and…

Turbulence is ubiquitous in the insterstellar medium and plays a major role in several processes such as the formation of dense structures and stars, the stability of molecular clouds, the amplification of magnetic fields, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Falceta-Goncalves , G. Kowal , E. Falgarone , A. C. -L. Chian

Jets are observed to stir up multi-phase turbulence in the inter-stellar medium as well as far beyond the host galaxy. Here we present detailed simulations of this process. We evolve the hydrodynamics equations with optically thin cooling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-10 Martin G. H. Krause

We examine observational characteristics of multi-phase turbulent flows in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) using a synthetic radiation field of atomic and molecular lines. We consider the multi-phase ISM which is formed by thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Yamada , H. Koyama , K. Omukai , S. Inutsuka

A common situation in galactic and intergalactic gas involves cold dense gas in motion relative to hot diffuse gas. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability creates a turbulent mixing layer and populates the intermediate-temperature phase, which often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 Drummond B. Fielding , Eve C. Ostriker , Greg L. Bryan , Adam S. Jermyn

The injection and evolution of turbulence in the intergalactic medium is studied by means of mesh-based hydrodynamical simulations, including a subgrid scale (SGS) model for small-scale unresolved turbulence. The simulations show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-03 L. Iapichino , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Merklein

The gas in galaxy clusters is heated by shock compression through accretion (outer shocks) and mergers (inner shocks). These processes additionally produce turbulence. To analyse the relation between the thermal and turbulent energies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Wolfram Schmidt , Jan F. Engels , Jens C. Niemeyer , Ann S. Almgren

Galactic and intergalactic flows often exhibit relative motion between the cold dense gas and the hot diffuse medium. Such multiphase flows -- involving gas at different temperatures, densities, and ionization states -- for instance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-07 Ritali Ghosh , Max Gronke , Prateek Sharma , Alankar Dutta