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We present a new class of solutions to Einstein equations for the spherical collapse of dustlike matter coupled with heat flux. In this family of solutions spacetime shear is necessarily non-zero. Also these solutions have an interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-07-11 Rituparno Goswami

Stars and planets move supersonically in a gaseous medium during planetary engulfment, stellar interactions and within protoplanetary disks. For a nearly uniform medium, the relevant parameters are the Mach number and the size of the body,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Logan J. Prust , Lars Bildsten

Guderley's 1942 work on radial shock waves provides cases of self-similar Euler flows exhibiting blowup of primary (undifferentiated) flow variables: a converging shock wave invades a quiescent region, and the velocity and pressure in its…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-23 Helge Kristian Jenssen , Charis Tsikkou

Radial similarity flow offers a rare instance where concrete inviscid, multi-dimensional, compressible flows can be studied in detail. In particular, there are flows of this type that exhibit imploding shocks and cavities. In such flows the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Helge Kristian Jenssen , Charis Tsikkou

We are concerned with geometric properties of transonic shocks as free boundaries in two-dimensional self-similar coordinates for compressible fluid flows, which are not only important for the understanding of geometric structure and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Mikhail Feldman , Wei Xiang

A global view is given upon the study of collapsing shear-free perfect fluid spheres with heat flow. We apply a compact formalism, which simplifies the isotropy condition and the condition for conformal flatness. This formalism also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-08 B. V. Ivanov

This paper addresses the construction and the stability of self-similar solutions to the isentropic compressible Euler equations. These solutions model a gas that implodes isotropically, ending in a singularity formation in finite time. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Anxo Biasi

We present a new method for analyzing the global stability of the Sedov-von Neumann-Taylor self-similar solutions, describing the asymptotic behavior of spherical decelerating shock waves, expanding into ideal gas with density \propto…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Doron Kushnir , Eli Waxman , Dov Shvarts

We are concerned with the structural stability of conical shocks in the three-dimensional steady supersonic flows past Lipschitz perturbed cones whose vertex angles are less than the critical angle. The flows under consideration are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Jie Kuang , Yongqian Zhang

Understanding the flow behaviors of supercooled liquids presents a major challenge in liquid-state physics due to the strong nonlinearity and rich phenomena. To unravel this complexity, we introduce the concept of local configurational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-25 Dong-Xu Yu , Ke-Qi Zeng , Zhe Wang

This paper deals with isothermal Euler-Poisson system which is used to model collapse of self-gravitating Newtonian star. Density dependent viscosity term is added on the right-hand side of momentum equation and it has been proved that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Marko Nedeljkov , Sanja Ružičić

The blast caused by an intense explosion has been extensively studied in conservative fluids, where the Taylor-von Neumann-Sedov hydrodynamic solution is a prototypical example of self-similarity driven by conservation laws. In dissipative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-24 Matthieu Barbier , Dario Villamaina , Emmanuel Trizac

We study the propagation of a Newtonian shock in a spherically symmetric, homologously expanding ejecta. We focus on media with a steep power-law density profile of the form $\rho \propto t^{-3}v^{-\alpha}$, with $\alpha>5$, where $v$ is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Taya Govreen-Segal , Ehud Nakar , Amir Levinson

Based on the asymptotic analysis of ordinary differential equations, we classify all spherically symmetric self-similar solutions to the Einstein equations which are asymptotically Friedmann at large distances and contain a perfect fluid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomohiro Harada , Hideki Maeda , B. J. Carr

In this work we consider the problem of constructing initial conditions for a flow model such that the resulting flow evolution leads to a self-similar energy cascade consistent with Kolmogorov's statistical theory of turbulence. As a first…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-24 Pritpal Matharu , Bartosz Protas , Tsuyoshi Yoneda

The fragmentation of shocked flows in a thermally bistable medium provides a natural mechanism to form turbulent cold clouds as precursors to molecular clouds. Yet because of the large density and temperature differences and the range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Fabian Heitsch , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch

Well-resolved galaxy clusters often show a large-scale quasi-spiral structure in deprojected density $\rho$ and temperature $T$ fields, delineated by a tangential discontinuity known as a cold front, superimposed on a universal radial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Uri Keshet , Itay Raveh , Arka Ghosh

This paper concerns the construction and analysis of a new family of exact general relativistic shock waves. The construction resolves the open problem of determining the expanding waves created behind a shock-wave explosion into a static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-02 Christopher Alexander

We study the evolution of radiating and viscous fluid spheres assuming an additional homothetic symmetry on the spherically simmetric space--time. We match a very simple solution to the symmetry equations with the exterior one (Vaidya). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 W. Barreto , J. Ovalle , B. Rodriguez

We consider the long-time behavior of irrotational solutions of the three-dimensional compressible Euler equations with shocks, hypersurfaces of discontinuity across which the Rankine-Hugoniot conditions for irrotational flow hold. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Daniel Ginsberg , Igor Rodnianski