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This paper examines a new class of exact and self-consistent MHD solutions which describe steady and axisymmetric hydromagnetic outflows from the atmosphere of a magnetized and rotating central object with possibly an orbiting accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Vlahakis , K. Tsinganos

We perform three-dimensional numerical simulations of stellar winds of early-M dwarf stars. Our simulations incorporate observationally reconstructed large-scale surface magnetic maps, suggesting that the complexity of the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. A. Vidotto , M. Jardine , J. Morin , J. F. Donati , M. Opher , T. I. Gombosi

We perform numerical simulations to investigate the stellar wind from interacting binary stars. Our aim is to find analytical formulae describing the outflow structure. In each binary system the more massive star is in the asymptotic giant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Luis C. Bermúdez-Bustamante , G. García-Segura , W. Steffen , L. Sabin

2D axis-symmetric hydrodynamical simulations are presented which explore the interaction of stellar and disk winds with surrounding infalling cloud material. The star, and its accompanying disk, blow winds inside a cavity cleared out by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 E. R. Parkin , J. M. Pittard , M. G. Hoare , N. J. Wright , J. J. Drake

The interaction of magnetic fields and stratified convection was studied in the context of the solar and late type stellar dynamos by using numerical 3D MHD simulations. The topology of stratified asymmetric and over-turning convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertil Dorch , Aake Nordlund

We perform 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of the fallback debris after a tidal disruption event. We focus on studying the effects of magnetic fields on the formation and early evolution of the accretion flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Maria Renee Meza , Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang

By a systematic method we construct general classes of exact and selfconsistent axisymmetric MHD solutions describing flows which originate at the near environment of a central gravitating astrophysical object. The unifying scheme contains…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Vlahakis , K. Tsinganos

Convection is one of the most important mixing processes in stellar interiors. Hydrodynamic mass entrainment can bring fresh fuel from neighboring stable layers into a convection zone, modifying the structure and evolution of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 G. Leidi , R. Andrassy , J. Higl , P. V. F. Edelmann , F. K. Röpke

The majority of stars are thought to form in clusters. Cluster formation in dense clumps of molecular clouds is strongly influenced, perhaps controlled, by supersonic turbulence. We have previously shown that the turbulence in regions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Fumitaka Nakamura , Zhi-Yun Li

We examine, parametrically, the interaction between the magnetosphere of a rotating, young stellar object (YSO) and a circumstellar accretion disk using 2.5-D (cylindrically symmetric) numerical magnetoydrodynamic simulations. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean Matt , Anthony Goodson , Robert Winglee , Karl-Heinz Bohm

Radiative turbulent mixing layers are expected to form pervasively at the phase boundaries in multiphase astrophysical systems. This inherently small scale structure is dynamically crucial because it directly regulates the mass, momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 Xihui Zhao , Xue-Ning Bai

We present the results of a series of axisymmetric time-dependent magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the propagation of cooling, overdense jets, motivated by the properties of outflows associated with young stellar objects. A variety…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James M. Stone , Philip E. Hardee

We present simulations of a comet interacting with the solar wind. Such simulations are treated in the framework of the ideal, 2D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), using the FLASH code in order to solve the equations of such a formalism. Besides,…

Stellar winds of cool, main-sequence stars are very tenuous and difficult to observe. Despite carrying away only a small amount of the stellar mass, they are important for regulating the rotation of the star and, consequently, its activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 A. A. Vidotto

The shaping of astrophysical outflows into bright, dense and collimated jets due to magnetic pressure is here investigated using laboratory experiments. We notably look at the impact on jet collimation of a misalignment between the outflow,…

We present a series of numerical studies of the interaction of colliding radiative, hydrodynamic young stellar outflows. We study the effect of the collision impact parameter on the acceleration of ambient material and the degree to which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew J. Cunningham , Adam Frank , Eric G. Blackman

Massive protostars attain high luminosities as they are actively accreting and the radiation pressure exerted on the gas in the star's atmosphere may launch isotropic high-velocity winds. These winds will collide with the surrounding gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Anna L. Rosen

About ten percent of all OB stars show strong, large-scale surface magnetic fields. The interaction of the magnetic field and the wind is believed to be the cause for the X-ray emission shown by these objects. We therefore run numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-09 Manfred Küker

We study galaxy super-winds driven in major mergers, using pc-resolution simulations with detailed models for stellar feedback that can self-consistently follow the formation/destruction of GMCs and generation of winds. The models include…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Norman Murray , Lars Hernquist , Desika Narayanan , Christopher C. Hayward

We present a numerical study of the properties of the flow produced by the collision of a magnetized anisotropic pulsar wind with the circumbinary environment. We focus on studying the impact of the high wind magnetization on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-19 Sergey V. Bogovalov , Dmitry Khangulyan , Alexander V. Koldoba , Galina V. Ustyugova , Felix Aharonian