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We analyze the evaporation and condensation of spherical and cylindrical HI clouds of the cold neutral medium surrounded by the warm neutral medium. Because the interstellar medium including those two phases is well described as a thermally…

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Radio-wave scintillation observations reveal a nearly Kolmogorov spectrum of density fluctuations in the ionized interstellar medium. Although this density spectrum is suggestive of turbulence, no theory relevant to its interpretation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoram Lithwick , Peter Goldreich

Density fluctuations produced by supersonic turbulence are of great importance to astrophysical chemical models. A property of these density fluctuations is that the two point correlation function decreases with increasing scale separation.…

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This paper reports on 3D numerical simulations of dynamics and thermodynamics in the diffuse ISM. Our models are local, account for sheared galactic rotation, magnetic fields, and realistic cooling, and resolve scales ~1-200 pc. This…

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

A local turbulence model is developed to study energy cascades in the heliosheath and outer heliosphere (OH) based on self-consistent two-dimensional fluid simulations. The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid OH that couples a…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

Turbulence models, such as the Smagorinsky model herein, are used to represent the energy lost from resolved to under-resolved scales due to the energy cascade (i.e. non-linearity). Analytic estimates of the energy dissipation rates of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Ali Pakzad

We present a number of statistical tools for obtaining studying turbulence in molecular clouds and diffuse interstellar medium. For our tests we used of three-dimensional 512 cube compressible MHD isothermal simulations performed for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Blakesley Burkhart , D. Falceta-Goncalves , G. Kowal , A. Lazarian

We study the scaling behaviors in the wind velocity time series collected at the atmospheric surface layer and compare them with two commonly used cascade models, the truncated stable distribution and the log-normal model. Results show that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-03 Lei Liu , Fei Hu

We consider the stability of clouds surrounded by a hotter confining medium with respect to which they are in motion, against Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (KHI). In the presence of cooling, sound waves are damped by dissipation. Whenever…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Mario Vietri , Andrea Ferrara , Francesco Miniati

Context. Tens of light hydrides and small molecules have now been detected over several hundreds sight lines sampling the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) in both the Solar neighbourhood and the inner Galactic disk. They provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Benjamin Godard , Edith Falgarone , Guillaume Pineau Des Forêts

This study investigates chaotic diffusion in multi-scale turbulence driven by nonlinear wave-particle resonance coupling. Turbulent waves with distinct characteristic wavelengths across scales coherently interact with charged particles when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yueheng Huang , Nong Xiang , Jiale Chen , Zong Xu

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

We systematically perform hydrodynamics simulations of 20 km s^-1 converging flows of the warm neutral medium (WNM) to calculate the formation of the cold neutral medium (CNM), especially focusing on the mean properties of the multiphase…

Turbulence plays an important role in shaping the interstellar medium, and strongly influences star formation. We aim to identify the physical processes capable of sustaining HI turbulence in the solar neighborhood. We compare recent HI…

"The purpose of numerical models is not numbers but insight." (Hamming) In the spirit of this adage, and of Don Cox's approach to scientific speaking, we discuss the questions that the latest generation of numerical models of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Miguel A. de Avillez , Maarit J. Korpi

In the framework of the focusing Nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation we study numerically the nonlinear stage of the modulation instability (MI) of the condensate. As expected, the development of the MI leads to formation of "integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-09-15 D. S. Agafontsev , V. E. Zakharov

Turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) plays an important role in many physical processes, including forming stars and shaping complex ISM structures. In this work, we investigate the HI turbulent properties of the Small Magellanic…

Feedback from protostellar outflows can influence the nature of turbulence in star forming regions even if they are not the primary source of velocity dispersion for all scales of molecular clouds. For the rate and power expected in star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jonathan J. Carroll , Adam Frank , Eric G Blackman

The interstellar medium (ISM) consists of a multiphase gas, including the warm neutral medium (WNM), the unstable neutral medium (UNM), and the cold neutral medium (CNM). While significant attention has been devoted to understanding the WNM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-13 Yue Hu

High-resolution numerical simulations are utilized to examine isotropic turbulence in a compressible fluid when long wavelength velocity fluctuations approach light speed. Spectral analysis reveals an inertial sub-range of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-04 Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen