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Convection is ubiquitous in stellar and planetary interiors where it likely plays an integral role in the generation of magnetic fields. As the interiors of these objects remain hidden from direct observation, numerical models of convection…

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We present a hydrodynamic model that captures the essence of granular dynamics in a vibrating bed. We carry out the linear stability analysis and uncover the instability mechanism that leads to the appearance of the convective rolls via a…

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Rayleigh-Benard convection in a rotating spherical shell provides a simplified model for convective dynamics of planetary and stellar interiors. In this study, we build more than 200 numerical models of rotating convection in a spherical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-14 Wei Fan , Qi Wang , Yufeng Lin

An experimental and numerical smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) analysis was performed for the convective flow arising from a horizontal, thin cylindrical heat source enclosed in a glycerin-filled, slender enclosure at low Rayleigh…

We describe high resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of three approximately $M_*$ field galaxies starting from \LCDM initial conditions. The simulations are made intentionally simple, and include photoionization,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , George Efstathiou

We address the issue of numerical convergence in cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations using a suite of runs drawn from the EAGLE project. Our simulations adopt subgrid models that produce realistic galaxy populations at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-08 Aaron D. Ludlow , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Richard Bower

We study the radial distribution of pressure, density, temperature and flow velocity fields at different times in a two dimensional hard sphere gas that is initially at rest and disturbed by injecting kinetic energy in a localized region…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-09 Jilmy P. Joy , R. Rajesh

We compute, including a current state-of-the-art treatment of hydrodynamical processes, heating and cooling, a variety of cosmological models into the extreme nonlinear phase to enable comparisons with observations. First, we note the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Renyue Cen

We perform stellar evolution calculations of the remnant of the merger of two He white dwarfs (WDs). Our initial conditions are taken from hydrodynamic simulations of double WD mergers and the viscous disc phase that follows. We evolve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Josiah Schwab

After briefly describing the anelastic approximation and Glatzmaier's code, we present results from our preliminary studies of core convection during the hydrogen burning phase of a 15 solar mass star, as well as our most recent results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Kuhlen , Stan E. Woosley , Gary A. Glatzmaier

I represent results three-dimensional numerical simulation of solar surface convection on scales local supergranulation with realistic model physics. I study thermal structure of convective motions in photosphere, the range of convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Ustyugov

Solar active regions are formed through the emergence of magnetic flux from the deeper convection zone. Recent satellite observations have shown that a horizontal divergent flow (HDF) stretches out over the solar surface just before the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shin Toriumi , Takaaki Yokoyama

On the basis of laboratory simulation a mechanism is established for the formation of the upper mantle convection spiral plumes from a hot point in the presence of a roll-type large-scale convective flow. The observed plume has horizontal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-13 A. N. Sharifulin , A. N. Poludnitsin

We investigate how rotating convection responds to the imposition of a latitudinally-varying heat flux at the base of the convective layer. This study is motivated by the solar near-surface shear layer, whose flows are thought to transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Kinfe Teweldebirhan , Rituparna Curt , Nicholas A. Featherstone

The standard equilibrium for radiation-dominated accretion disks has long been known to be viscously, thermally, and convectively unstable, but the nonlinear development of these instabilities---hence the actual state of such disks---has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eric Agol , Julian Krolik , Neal Turner , James Stone

Hydrodynamical interaction of spherical ejecta freely expanding at mildly relativistic speeds into an ambient cold medium is studied in semi-analytical and numerical ways to investigate how ejecta produced in energetic stellar explosions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Akihiro Suzuki , Keiichi Maeda , Toshikazu Shigeyama

Molecular dynamics simulation has been used to model pattern formation in three-dimensional Rayleigh--Benard convection at the discrete-particle level. Two examples are considered, one in which an almost perfect array of hexagonally-shaped…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 D. C. Rapaport

We present two sets of grid-based hydrodynamical simulations of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) traveling through the diffuse, hot Galactic halo. These HI clouds have been suggested to provide fuel for ongoing star formation in the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Fabian Heitsch , Mary E. Putman

Recent Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of galaxy cluster cooling flows have revealed X-ray emission voids of up to 30 kpc in size that have been identified with buoyant, magnetized bubbles. Motivated by these observations, we have…

The bulk properties of convection in stellar and giant planet interiors are often assumed to be independent of the molecular diffusivities, which are very small. By contrast, simulations of this process in rotating, spherical shells, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Neil T. Lewis , Tom Joshi-Hartley , Steven M. Tobias , Laura K. Currie , Matthew K. Browning