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In stars and planets natural processes heat convective flows in the bulk of a convective region rather than at hard boundaries. By characterizing how convective dynamics are determined by the strength of an internal heating source we can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Whitney T. Powers , Evan H. Anders , Benjamin P. Brown

The axisymmetric 3-D MHD outflow of a cold plasma from a magnetized and rotating astrophysical object is numerically simulated with the purpose of investigating the outflow's magnetocentrifugal acceleration and eventual collimation. Gravity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Bogovalov , K. Tsinganos

The Betz limit expresses the maximum proportion of the kinetic energy flux incident on an energy conversion device that can be extracted from an unbounded flow. The derivation of the Betz limit requires an assumption of steady flow through…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-01 John O. Dabiri

We present an analytical model for describing highly relativistic acceleration of magnetically driven jets, within the framework of ideal MHD for cold, stationary and axisymmetric outflows. Our novel procedure is to treat the wind equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Akira Tomimatsu , Masaaki Takahashi

This paper concerns smooth supersonic flows with Lipschitz continuous speed in two-dimensional infinite expanding nozzles, which are governed by a quasilinear hyperbolic equation being singular at the sonic and vacuum state. The flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-16 Chunpeng Wang , Zhouping Xin

We study gaseous outflows from disc galaxies driven by radiation pressure on dust grains. We include the effect of bulge and dark matter halo and show that the existence of such an outflow implies a maximum value of disc mass-to-light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mahavir Sharma , Biman B. Nath , Yuri Shchekinov

We derive a self-similar description for the 2D streamline topology and flow structure of an axi-symmetric, thermally driven wind originating from a disc in which the density is a power law function of radius. Our scale-free solution is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 C. J. Clarke , R. D. Alexander

We point out novel consequences of general relativity involving tidal dynamics of ultrarelativistic relative motion. Specifically, we use the generalized Jacobi equation and its extension to study the force-free dynamics of relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon

Modelling the flow in a thin accretion disc like a dynamical system, we analyse the nature of the critical points of the steady solutions of the flow. For the simple inviscid disc there are two critical points, with the outer one being a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnab K. Ray , J. K. Bhattacharjee

We consider a self-similar force-free wind flowing out of an infinitely thin disk located in the equatorial plane. On the disk plane, we assume that the magnetic stream function $P$ scales as $P\propto R^\nu$, where $R$ is the cylindrical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ramesh Narayan , Jonathan C. McKinney , Alison J. Farmer

We investigate the linear stability of a hydrodynamic relativistic flow of magnetized plasma in the force--free approximation. We considered the case of light cylindrical jet in cold and dense environment, so the jet boundary remains at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ya. N. Istomin , V. I. Pariev

We present a systematic investigation of the transverse-momentum differential radial flow fluctuations observable $v_0(p_T)$ in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at top RHIC ($\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}{\,=\,}200$ GeV) and LHC…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-09 Lipei Du

Using steady, axisymmetric, ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) we analyze relativistic outflows by means of examining the momentum equation along the flow and in the transfield direction. We argue that the asymptotic Lorentz factor is ~…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nektarios Vlahakis

We construct a two-parameter family of models for self-collimated, radially self-similar magnetized outflows from accretion disks. A flow at zero initial poloidal speed leaves the surface of a rotating disk and is accelerated and redirected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eve C. Ostriker

We derive an RG flow equation that is satisfied by the regularized partition function for noncritical strings in background fields. The flow refers to change in the position of a ``boundary'' in the liouville direction. The boundary is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Avinash Dhar , Spenta R. Wadia

We use numerical hydrodynamics simulations to study line driven winds launched from an accreting alpha-disc. Building on previous work where the driving radiation field is static, we compute a time-dependent radiation flux from the local,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Anthony Kirilov , Sergei Dyda , Christopher S. Reynolds

We improve the best known upper bounds on the number of Ruelle resonances in disks of large radius for Gevrey uniformly hyperbolic flows. The proof is based on Rugh's approach of dynamical determinants that replaces the study of the flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Malo Jézéquel

The relativistic kinetic theory of the phonon gas in superfluids is developed. The technique of the derivation of macroscopic balance equations from microscopic equations of motion for individual particles is applied to an ensemble of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Popov

We study super-Eddington accretion flows onto black holes using a global three dimensional radiation magneto-hydrodynamical simulation. We solve the time dependent radiative transfer equation for the specific intensities to accurately…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-14 Yan-Fei Jiang , James M. Stone , Shane W. Davis

A new one-dimensional, inviscid, and vertically integrated disk model with prescribed infall is presented. The flow is computed using a second-order shock-capturing scheme. Included are vertical infall, radial infall at the outer radial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-19 Karim Shariff , Uma Gorti , Julio David Melon Fuksman