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We study the nonlinear growth of kinetic gyroresonance instability of cosmic rays (CRs) induced by large scale compressible turbulence. This feedback of cosmic rays on turbulence was shown to induce an important scattering mechanism in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

Kinetic approaches provide an effective description of the process of particle acceleration at shock fronts and allow to take into account the dynamical reaction of the accelerated particles as well as the amplification of the turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi , Stefano Gabici

We consider a recently discovered class of instabilities, driven by cosmic ray streaming, in a variety of environments. We show that although these instabilities have been discussed primarily in the context of supernova driven interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Ellen G. Zweibel , John E. Everett

In the present paper, an efficient method to generate "pure" cylindrically converging shock wave without a following contact surface is proposed firstly. Then, the Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities of two interfaces driven by the generated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-09 Wei-Gang Zeng , Yu-Xin Ren , Jianhua Pan

A critical component of particle acceleration in astrophysical shocks is the non-resonant (Bell) instability, where the streaming of cosmic rays (CRs) leads to the amplification of magnetic fields necessary to scatter particles. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Emily Lichko , Damiano Caprioli , Benedikt Schroer , Siddhartha Gupta

We investigate effects of cosmic-rays on the linear growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Cosmic-rays are treated as an adiabatic gas and allowed to diffuse along magnetic field lines. We calculated the dispersion relation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Akihiro Suzuki , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Takahiro Kudoh

We present a linear perturbation analysis of the magnetorotational instability in the presence of the cosmic rays. Dynamical effects of the cosmic rays are considered by a fluid description and the diffusion of cosmic rays is only along the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Fazeleh Khajenabi

We investigate the effects of rotation on the evolution of the Parker instability in an exponentially-stratified and uniformly-rotating magnetized gas disk by carrying out three-dimensional numerical simulations with an isothermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu , T. W. Jones

Shock-driven multiphase mixing occurs in many physical systems such as explosive dispersal of chemical or biological agents, in the evolution of supernova remnants, and in supersonic and detonative combustion engines. This mixing process is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-02 Vasco O. Duke-Walker , Jacob A. McFarland

Recent theories suggest planetesimal formation via streaming and/or gravitational instabilities may be triggered by localized enhancements in the dust-to-gas ratio, and one hypothesis is that sufficient enhancements may be produced in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anna L. H. Hughes , Philip J. Armitage

When a magnetised, thermal plasma containing a shock wave efficiently accelerates Cosmic Rays (CR) a reaction is exerted on the fluid structure. The simplest description of this process involves three conservation equations for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Duffy , L. O'C. Drury , H. J. Voelk

Cosmological shock waves during structure formation not only play a decisive role for the thermalization of gas in virializing structures but also for the acceleration of relativistic cosmic rays (CRs) through diffusive shock acceleration.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Torsten A. Ensslin , Martin Jubelgas

The amplification of a magnetic field due to the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) is investigated by two-dimensional MHD simulations. Single-mode analysis is adopted to reveal definite relation between the nonlinear evolution of RMI and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Takayoshi Sano , Katsunobu Nishihara , Chihiro Matsuoka , Tsuyoshi Inoue

Using a new, second-order accurate numerical method we present dynamical simulations of oblique MHD cosmic ray (CR) modified plane shock evolution using the two-fluid model for diffusive particle acceleration. The numerical shocks evolve to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Adam Frank , T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu

We study the linear properties, nonlinear saturation and a steady, strongly nonlinear state of the Parker instability in galaxies. We consider magnetic buoyancy and its consequences with and without cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are described…

We explore streaming instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with relativistic and ultra-relativistic cosmic rays in the background magnetic field in the multi-fluid approach. Cosmic rays can be both electrons and ions. The drift speed of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. K. Nekrasov

Previous experiments have revealed that shock waves in thermally relaxing gases, such as ionizing, dissociating and vibrationally excited gases, can become unstable. To date, the mechanism controlling this instability has not been resolved.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-02-06 Matei I. Radulescu , Nick Sirmas

Depending on the values of the energy and angular momentum per unit mass in the gas supplied at large radii, inviscid advection-dominated accretion flows can display velocity profiles with either preshock deceleration or preshock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-29 Truong Le , Kent S. Wood , Michael T. Wolff , Peter A. Becker , Joy Putney

We used unprecedentedly large 2D and 3D hybrid (kinetic ions - fluid electrons) simulations of non-relativistic collisionless strong shocks in order to investigate the effects of self-consistently accelerated ions on the overall shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Caprioli , A. Spitkovsky

As discussed in a number of recent papers, cosmological stasis is a phenomenon wherein the abundances of multiple cosmological energy components with different equations of state remain constant for an extended period despite the expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Keith R. Dienes , Lucien Heurtier , Daniel Hoover , Fei Huang , Anna Paulsen , Brooks Thomas