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We study the correlation between the non-thermal velocity dispersion ($\sigma_{\rm nth}$) and the length-scale (L) in the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) using a large number of Hi gas components taken from various published Hi surveys…

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We study the dynamics of phase transitions in the interstellar medium by means of three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations. We use a realistic cooling function and generic nonequilibrium initial conditions to follow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

To study how supernova feedback structures the turbulent interstellar medium, we construct 3D models of vertically stratified gas stirred by discrete supernova explosions, including vertical gravitational field and parametrized heating and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. K. Ryan Joung , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Statistical features of homogeneous, isotropic, two-dimensional turbulence is discussed on the basis of a set of direct numerical simulations up to the unprecedented resolution $32768^2$. By forcing the system at intermediate scales, narrow…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Boffetta , S. Musacchio

The effect of Kolmogorov-size spherical particles on homogeneous and isotropic turbulence is investigated using particle-resolved direct numerical simulations at a Taylor-scale Reynolds number of $150$. Four monodisperse suspensions of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-06 Ludovico Fossà , Marco Edoardo Rosti

In $2048^3$ simulation of quantum turbulence within the Gross-Pitaevskii equation we demonstrate that the large scale motions have a classical Kolmogorov-1941 energy spectrum E(k) ~ k^{-5/3}, followed by an energy accumulation with E(k) ~…

Supersonic turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) is believed to decay rapidly within a flow crossing time irrespective of the degree of magnetization. However, this general consensus of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-10 Chang-Goo Kim , Shantanu Basu

Colliding supersonic bulk flows shape observable properties and internal physics of various astrophysical objects, like O-star winds, molecular clouds, galactic sheets, binaries, or gamma-ray bursts. Using numerical simulations, we show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-07 Doris Folini , Rolf Walder , Jean M. Favre

We present 2D, ideal-MHD numerical simulations of the Parker instability in a multi-component warm disk model. The calculations were done using two numerical codes with different algorithms, TVD and ZEUS-3D. The outcome of the numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alfredo Santillan , Jongsoo Kim , Jose Franco , Marco Martos , S. S. Hong , Dongsu Ryu

The numerical simulation of turbulence in stars has led to a rich set of possibilities regarding stellar pulsations, asteroseismology, thermonuclear yields, and formation of neutron stars and black holes. The breaking of symmetry by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 W. David Arnett , Casey Meakin

We present results from a high-resolution interstellar turbulence simulation and show that it closely reproduces recent $Planck$ measurements. Our model captures the scaling of $EE$ and $BB$ spectra, and the $EE/BB$ ratio in the inertial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Ka Wai Ho , Ka Ho Yuen , Raphael Flauger , Alexei G. Kritsuk

We analyze 3D numerical simulations of driven incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in a periodic box threaded by a moderately strong external magnetic field. We sum over nonlinear interactions within Fourier wavebands and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Jungyeon Cho , Alex Lazarian , Ethan Vishniac

Cluster media are dynamical, not static; observational evidence suggests they are turbulent. High-resolution simulations of the intracluster media (ICMs) and of idealized, similar media help us understand the complex physics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-24 T. W. Jones , David H. Porter , Dongsu Ryu , Jungyeon Cho

We study the statistics of single particle Lagrangian velocity in a shell model of turbulence. We show that the small scale velocity fluctuations are intermittent, with scaling exponents connected to the Eulerian structure function scaling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Boffetta , F. De Lillo , S. Musacchio

Turbulence is a complex system exhibiting both universal statistical features and prominent coherent structures. We model turbulence using coherent vortices distributed within a multi-scale statistical framework, termed `woven turbulence'.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-04 Zishuo Han , Weiyu Shen , Yue Yang

Emission in spectral lines can provide unique information on interstellar turbulence. Doppler shifts due to supersonic motions contain information on turbulent velocity field which is otherwise difficult to measure. However, the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Lazarian

We discuss a few recent developments that are important for understanding of MHD turbulence. First, MHD turbulence is not so messy as it is usually believed. In fact, the notion of strong non-linear coupling of compressible and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lazarian , J. Cho

The main observational evidence for turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) and molecular clouds is the power-law energy spectrum for velocity fluctuations, E(k) \propto k^{\alpha}. The Kolmogorov scaling exponent, \alpha=-5/3, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Kevlahan , Ralph E. Pudritz

Maxima of the scalar dissipation rate in turbulence appear in form of sheets and correspond to the potentially most intensive scalar mixing events. Their cross-section extension determines a locally varying diffusion scale of the mixing…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Kushnir , Joerg Schumacher , Achi Brandt

We report a high-resolution numerical study of two-dimensional (2D) miscible Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) incompressible turbulence with the Boussinesq approximation. An ensemble of 100 independent realizations were performed at small Atwood number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Quan Zhou