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Supersonic isothermal turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. This work presents high-resolution AREPO hydrodynamical simulations of isolated shocks moving through supersonic turbulence to study the development and evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael M. Foley , Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart , Lars Hernquist , Alyssa Goodman

We investigate relativistic flows after a shock wave generated in a star arrives at the surface. First, the sphericity effect is involved through a successive approximation procedure by adding correction terms to an already known…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Reina Kikuchi , Toshikazu Shigeyama

Supersonic vortex plane and axisymmetric flows of non-viscous non-heatconductive gas with arbitrary thermodynamic properties in the vicinity of a steady shock wave are studied. The differential equations describing the gas flow exterior to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-27 Vladimir N. Uskov , Pavel S. Mostovykh

We extend our previous studies of shock waves and shock-free solutions in thin accretion and winds in pseudo-Newtonian geometry to the case when the flow is ``two-dimensional'' and around a ``Kerr black hole''. We present equations for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. K. Chakrabarti

Shock waves are supersonic disturbances propagating in a fluid and giving rise to dissipation and drag. Weak shocks, i.e., those of small amplitude, can be well described within the hydrodynamic approximation. On the other hand, strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-24 Sergei Khlebnikov , Martin Kruczenski , Georgios Michalogiorgakis

We study finite-time blow-up for the one-dimensional nonlinear wave equation with a quadratic time-derivative nonlinearity, \[ u_{tt}-u_{xx}=(u_t)^2,\qquad (x,t)\in\mathbb R\times[0,T). \] Building on the work of Ghoul, Liu, and Masmoudi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Oliver Gough

The main part of the thesis deals with continuously and discretely self-similar solutions and type II critical phenomena in a family of self-gravitating non-linear sigma-models. The phenomena strongly depend on the dimensionless coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Christiane Lechner

We introduce what we call a locally inertial Godunov method with dynamical time dilation, and use it to simulate a new one parameter family of general relativistic shock wave solutions of the Einstein equations for a perfect fluid. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Zeke Vogler

The structure of steady plane-parallel radiative shock waves propagating through the hydrogen gas undergoing partial ionization and excitation of bound atomic states is investigated in terms of the self-consistent solution of the equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. A. Fadeyev , D. Gillet

C-type shocks are believed to be ubiquitous in turbulent molecular clouds thanks to ambipolar diffusion. We investigate whether the drag instability in 1D isothermal C-shocks, inferred from the local linear theory of Gu & Chen, can appear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-23 Pin-Gao Gu , Che-Yu Chen , Emma Shen , Chien-Chang Yen , Min-Kai Lin

We present solutions for the self-similar propagation of a shock wave in a hydrostatic, adiabatic medium with a point mass gravitational field. In contrast to the well-known, Sedov-Taylor blastwave, these solutions apply to the case when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Eric R. Coughlin , Eliot Quataert , Stephen Ro

We construct axisymmetric self-similar solutions of transonic outflows emanating from a point source including the effect of the rotation. The solutions are constructed exclusively on the equatorial plane. The features of solutions are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 Takatoshi Ko , Kotaro Fujisawa , Toshikazu Shigeyama

A simplified, pseudoplastic rheology characterized by constant viscosity plateaus above and below a transition strain rate is applied to axisymmetric, gravitationally driven spreading of a thin fluid film with constant volume flux source in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-01 Chris Reese

We construct steady non-spherical bubbles and drops, which are traveling wave solutions to the axisymmetric two-phase Euler equations with surface tension, whose inner phase is a bounded connected domain. The solutions have a uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-10 David Meyer , Lukas Niebel , Christian Seis

Bubbles in the interstellar medium are produced by astrophysical sources, which continuously or explosively deposit large amount of energy into the ambient medium. These expanding bubbles can drive shocks in front of them, which dynamics is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 M. V. Medvedev , A. Loeb

Linearized stability of incompressible viscous fluid flows in a thin spherical shell is studied by using the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations on a sphere. The stationary flow on the sphere has two singularities (a sink and a source)…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Ranis N. Ibragimov , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We use hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the response of geometrically thin, self-gravitating, singular isothermal disks of gas to imposed rigidly rotating spiral potentials. By minimizing reflection-induced feedback from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Chakrabarti , G. Laughlin , F. H. Shu

Highly supercooled liquids with soft-core potentials are studied via molecular dynamics simulations in two and three dimensions in quiescent and sheared conditions.We may define bonds between neighboring particle pairs unambiguously owing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

Large regions of giant planets are thought to possess unstable thermal gradients stabilised by gradients in heavy-element composition. The fluid can then develop semi-convection, a double-diffusive instability driven by the unequal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Paul Pružina , Nathanaël Schaeffer , David Cébron

Emission in many astrophysical transients originates from a shocked fluid. A central engine typically produces an outflow with varying speeds, leading to internal collisions within the outflow at finite distances from the source. Each such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Jonathan Granot , Paz Beniamini