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We present results from two-dimensional numerical simulations of a supersonic turbulent flow in the plane of the galactic disk, incorporating shear, thresholded and discrete star formation (SF), self-gravity, rotation and magnetic fields. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Passot , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , A. Pouquet

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

We present self-similar solutions that describe the gravitational collapse of rotating, isothermal, magnetic molecular-cloud cores, relevant to the formation of rotationally supported protostellar disks. This work focuses on the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ruben Krasnopolsky , Arieh Konigl

Super-sonic turbulence fragments molecular clouds (MC) into a very complex density field with density contrasts of several orders of magnitude. A fraction of the gas is locked into dense and gravitationally bound cores, which collapse as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Padoan , AAke Nordlund , Ornolfur Einar Rognvaldsson , Alyssa Goodman

Motivated by the nonlinear star formation efficiency found in recent numerical simulations by a number of workers, we perform high-resolution adaptive mesh refinement simulations of star formation in self-gravitating turbulently driven gas.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-01 Daniel W. Murray , Philip Chang , Norman W. Murray , John Pittman

Natural convection is ubiquitous throughout the physical sciences and engineering, yet many of its important properties remain elusive. To study convection in a novel context, we derive and solve a quasilinear form of the Rayleigh-B\'enard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-29 Liam O'Connor , Daniel Lecoanet , Evan H. Anders

Turbulence is a prevalent phenomenon in the interstellar medium, and in particular, the environment at the centers of galaxies. For example, detailed observations of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) revealed that it has a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-07 Jesus M. Salas , Mark R. Morris , Smadar Naoz

In this paper we present a unified shell model for stably stratified and convective turbulence. Numerical simulation of this model for stably stratified flow shows Bolgiano-Obukhbov scaling in which the kinetic energy spectrum varies as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Abhishek Kumar , Mahendra K. Verma

The analytic galactic wind model derived by Chevalier and Clegg in 1985 (CC85) assumes $\textit{uniform}$ energy and mass-injection within the starburst galaxy nucleus. However, the structure of nuclear star clusters, bulges, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-18 Dustin D. Nguyen , Todd A. Thompson , Evan E. Schneider , Sebastian Lopez , Laura A. Lopez

The current understanding of the turbulent dissipation in stellar convective zones is based on the assumption that the turbulence follows Kolmogorov scaling. This assumption is valid for some cases in which the time frequency of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-14 Kaloyan Penev , Joseph Barranco , Dimitar Sasselov

We study the interplay between turbulent heating, mixing, and radiative cooling in an idealized model of cool cluster cores. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets are expected to drive turbulence and heat cluster cores. Cooling of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Nilanjan Banerjee , Prateek Sharma

This paper reports an application of gas-kinetic BGK scheme to the computation of turbulent compressible convection in the stellar interior. After incorporating the Sub-grid Scale (SGS) turbulence model into the BGK scheme, we tested the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-07 Chun-Lin Tian , Li-Cai Deng , Kwing-Lam Chan , Da-Run Xiong

Cool cores of galaxy clusters are thought to be heated by low-power active galactic nuclei (AGN), whose accretion is regulated by feedback. However, the interaction between the hot gas ejected by the AGN and the ambient intracluster medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

Turbulent convection processes in nature are often found to be organized in a hierarchy of plume structures and flow patterns. The gradual aggregation of convection cells or granules to a supergranule which eventually fills the whole…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-16 Philipp P. Vieweg , Janet D. Scheel , Jörg Schumacher

(abridged) Context. Turbulent fluxes of angular momentum and heat due to rotationally affected convection play a key role in determining differential rotation of stars. Here we perform a systematic comparison between Cartesian and spherical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-07 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Mantere , G. Guerrero , A. Brandenburg , P. Chatterjee

We study the driving of turbulence in star-froming disc galaxies of different masses at different epochs, using an analytic "bathtub" model. The disc of gas and stars is assumed to be in marginal Toomre instability. Turbulence is assumed to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-07 Omri Ginzburg , Avishai Dekel , Nir Mandelker , Mark R. Krumholz

Turbulent mixing in the radiative regions of stars is usually either ignored or crudely accounted for in most stellar evolution models. However, there is growing theoretical and observational evidence that such mixing is present and can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 P. Garaud

We have constructed models for the sun at three stages of its evolution: a zero-age main sequence model, the present sun, and a subgiant model. For each model, the turbulent pressure and turbulent kinetic energy were calculated from 3-d…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Demarque , L. H. Li , F. J. Robinson , S. Sofia , Y. -C. Kim , K. L. Chan , D. B. Guenther

We critically examine the constraints on internal angular momentum transport which can be inferred from the spin down of open cluster stars. The rotation distribution inferred from rotation velocities and periods are consistent for larger…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Pavel A. Denissenkov , Marc Pinsonneault , Donald M. Terndrup , Grant Newsham

This paper reports the first measurement of the relationship between turbulent velocity and cloud size in the diffuse circumgalactic medium (CGM) in typical galaxy halos at redshift z~0.4-1. Through spectrally-resolved absorption profiles…