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In this study, we investigate the accretion dynamics and test particle motion around a non-rotating, spherically symmetric Lee-Wick black hole (BH) to reveal how the model parameters affect orbital stability and the quasi-periodic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Orhan Donmez , G. Mustafa , M. Yousaf , Faisal Javed , Ikhtiyor Saidov , Farruh Atamurotov

The growth of instabilities is key to trigger a supernova explosion during the phase of stalled shock, immediately after the birth of a proto-neutron star (PNS). We assess the effect of stellar rotation on neutrino-driven convection and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-22 A. -C. Buellet , T. Foglizzo , J. Guilet , E. Abdikamalov

A new so-called `gravitational loss-cone instability' in stellar systems has recently been investigated theoretically in the framework of linear perturbation theory and proved to be potentially important in understanding the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 E. V. Polyachenko , P. Berczik , A. Just , I. G. Shukhman

We present results from a numerical study of critical gravitational collapse of axisymmetric distributions of massless scalar field energy. We find threshold behavior that can be described by the spherically symmetric critical solution with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. W. Choptuik , E. W. Hirschmann , S. L. Liebling , F. Pretorius

In the context of core-collapse supernova explosions (CCSNe), the interaction of standing accretion shocks with upstream vorticity perturbations is investigated by linear theory analysis. The endothermic effect associated to the nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 César Huete , Ernazar Abdikamalov

The Vertical Shear Instability is one of two known mechanisms potentially active in the so-called dead zones of protoplanetary accretion disks. A recent analysis indicates that a subset of unstable modes shows unbounded growth - both as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 O. M. Umurhan , R. P. Nelson , O. Gressel

We describe our modelling of the radiatively cooling shocks and their thin shells with various numerical tools in different physical and calculational setups. We inspect structure of the dense shell, its formation and evolution, pointing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-05 D. A. Badjin , S. I. Glazyrin , K. V. Manukovskiy , S. I. Blinnikov

We present idealized models of a razor-thin, axisymmetric, Keplerian stellar disc around a massive black hole, and study non-axisymmetric secular instabilities in the absence of either counter-rotation or loss cones. These discs are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Karamveer Kaur , Mher Kazandjian , S. Sridhar , Jihad Touma

Using a two-dimensional hydrodynamics code (PROMETHEUS), we study the continued evolution of rotating massive helium stars whose iron core collapse does not produce a successful outgoing shock, but instead forms a black hole. We study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. MacFadyen , S. E. Woosley

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability plays an important role in the dynamics of several astronomical objects, in particular, in supernovae (SN) evolution. In this paper we develop an analytical approach to study the stability analysis of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xavier Ribeyre , Ludovic Hallo , Vladimir Tikhonchuk , Serge Bouquet , Javier Sanz

It has been suggested that the observed rotation periods of radio pulsars might be induced by a non-axisymmetric spiral-mode instability in the turbulent region behind the stalled supernova bounce shock, even if the progenitor core was not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Rantsiou , A. Burrows , J. Nordhaus , A. Almgren

In this paper, we show that astrophysical accretion disks are dynamically unstable to non-axisymmetric disturbances. This instability is present in any stably stratified anticyclonically sheared flow as soon as the angular velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Richard , F. Hersant , O. Dauchot , F. Daviaud , B. Dubrulle , J-P. Zahn

We present a comparison between several simulation codes designed to study the core-collapse supernova mechanism. We pay close attention to controlling the initial conditions and input physics in order to ensure a meaningful and informative…

Using two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, we investigate the stability of shocked accretion flows around black holes under non-axisymmetric perturbations. By systematically exploring the parameter space of specific energy and angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Junxing Zhou , Junxiang Huang , Xin Chang , Toru Okuda , Chandra B. Singh

We investigate the stability of growing vesicles using the formalism of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The vesicles are growing due to the accretion of lipids to the bilayer which forms the vesicle membrane. The thermodynamic description is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-06 Richard G. Morris , Alan J. McKane

We performed the first numerical simulations of magnetorotational instability from a sub-magnetar-class seed magnetic field in core collapse supernovae. As a result of axisymmetric ideal MHD simulations, we found that the magnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada , Hideyuki Suzuki

When the core of a massive star collapses, neutrino heating can energize the stalled accretion shock, leading to a successful supernova. The critical condition that characterizes the transition from accretion to explosion is a central topic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 David Pochik , Todd Thompson

The two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation admits a large family of one-dimensional bounded traveling-wave solutions. All such solutions may be written in terms of an amplitude and a phase. Solutions with piecewise constant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Roger J. Thelwell , John D. Carter , Bernard Deconinck

Stagnation of a cold plasma streaming to the center or axis of symmetry via an expanding accretion shock wave is ubiquitous in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and high-energy-density plasma physics, the examples ranging from plasma flows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 A. L. Velikovich , M. Murakami , B. D. Taylor , J. L. Giuliani , S. T. Zalesak , Y. Iwamoto

We conduct a series of numerical experiments into the nature of three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamics in the postbounce stalled-shock phase of core-collapse supernovae using 3D general-relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 E. Abdikamalov , C. D. Ott , D. Radice , L. F. Roberts , R. Haas , C. Reisswig , P. Moesta , H. Klion , E. Schnetter