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Rotating magnetized compact objects and their accretion discs can generate strong toroidal magnetic fields driving highly magnetized plasmas into relativistic jets. Of significant concern, however, has been that a strong toroidal field in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan C. McKinney , Roger D. Blandford

In this paper, we investigate the energy problem in general relativity using approximate Lie symmetry methods for differential equations. This procedure is applied to Bardeen model (the regular black hole solution). Here we are forced to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-08 M. Sharif , Saira Waheed

Craters form as the lander's exhaust interacts with the planetary surfaces. Understanding this phenomenon is imperative to ensure safe landings. We investigate crater morphology, where a turbulent air jet impinges on the granular surfaces.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-25 Prasad Sonar , Hiroaki Katsuragi

The suppression and modification of high-energy objects, like jets, in heavy-ion collisions provide an important window to access the degrees of freedom of the quark-gluon plasma on different length scales. Despite increasingly precise and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-01 Jasmine Brewer

Though the main applications of computer simulations in relativity are to astrophysical systems such as black holes and neutron stars, nonetheless there are important applications of numerical methods to the investigation of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 David Garfinkle

We leverage dimensional analysis and genetic programming (a type of machine learning) to discover two strikingly simple but universal scaling laws, which remain accurate for different materials, processing conditions, and machines in metal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Zhengtao Gan , Orion L. Kafka , Niranjan Parab , Cang Zhao , Olle Heinonen , Tao Sun , Wing Liu

Previous works show that a correlation among radio luminosity, X-ray luminosity, and black hole (BH) mass from stellar-mass BHs in X-ray binaries to supermassive BHs in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), which leads to the so-called fundamental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

We carry out numerical simulations of the collapse of a complex rotating scalar field of the form $\Psi(t,r,\theta)=e^{im\theta}\Phi(t,r)$, giving rise to an axisymmetric metric, in 2+1 spacetime dimensions with cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-12 Joanna Jałmużna , Carsten Gundlach

Theoretical studies of jet stopping in strongly-coupled QCD-like plasmas have used gauge-gravity duality to find that the maximum stopping distance scales like E^{1/3} for large jet energies E. In recent work studying jets that are created…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Peter Arnold , Diana Vaman

The paper aims to consider the strength gradient force as the dynamic of astrophysical jets, explaining the movement phenomena of astrophysical jets. J. C. Maxwell applied the quaternion analysis to describe the electromagnetic theory. This…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Zi-Hua Weng

Despite significant strides made towards understanding accretion, outflow, and emission processes in the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, the presence of jets has neither been rejected nor proven. We investigate here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sera Markoff , Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke

The entropy of a spherically symmetric distribution of matter in self-equilibrium is calculated. When gravitational effects are neglected, the entropy of the system is proportional to its volume. As effects due to gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Jonathan Oppenheim

We present a family of dynamic rotating cylindrically symmetric Ricci-flat gravitational fields whose geodesic motions have the structure of gravitomagnetic jets. These correspond to helical motions of free test particles up and down…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-22 C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon

Jets are endemic to both Galactic solar mass and extragalactic supermassive black holes. A recent 86 GHz image of M\,87 shows a jet emerging from the accretion ring around a black hole, providing the first direct observational constraint on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Brian Punsly

We investigate the possibility to localize scalar field configurations as a model for black hole accretion. We analyze and resolve difficulties encountered when localizing scalar fields in General Relativity. We illustrate this ability with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Miguel Megevand , Ignacio Olabarrieta , Luis Lehner

We survey some of the recent developments in the study of logarithm laws and shrinking target properties for various families of dynamical systems. We discuss connections to geometry, diophantine approximation, and probability theory.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-08-07 Jayadev S. Athreya

Simple models of a classical spacetime foam are considered, which consist of identical static defects embedded in Minkowski spacetime. Plane-wave solutions of the vacuum Maxwell equations with appropriate boundary conditions at the defect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bernadotte , F. R. Klinkhamer

Systems of partial differential equations lie at the heart of physics. Despite this, the general theory of these systems has remained rather obscure in comparison to numerical approaches such as finite element models and various other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Baker , Chris Doran

We use moment formalism of relativistic radiation hydrodynamics to obtain equations of motion of radial jets and solve them using polytropic equation of state of the relativistic gas. We consider curved space-time around black holes and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Mukesh K. Vyas , Indranil Chattopadhyay

In this study, we consider the problem of geometry of curved jets. We work with a simplified two-dimensional kinematical model assuming that the jet velocity is varying. We prescribe the velocity variation and study two cases concerning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-08 I. Liodakis , V. S. Geroyannis , V. G. Karageorgopoulos