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A large cloud of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in a magneto-optical trap exhibits, in a certain regime of parameters, spatio-temporal instabilities with a dynamics resembling that of a turbulent fluid. We apply the methods of turbulence theory…

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Active turbulence is a paradigmatic and fascinating example of self-organized motion at large scales occurring in active matter. We employ massive hydrodynamic simulations of suspensions of resolved model microswimmers to tackle the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Antonio Gascó , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Andrea Scagliarini

An analysis of the structural properties of three-dimensional Coulomb clusters confined in a spherical parabolic trap is presented. Based on extensive high accuracy computer simulations the shell configurations and energies for particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-07-29 P. Ludwig , S. Kosse , M. Bonitz

The importance of the interstellar magnetic field is studied in relation to the evolutions of superbubbles with a three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulation. A superbubble is a large supernova remnant driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kohji Tomisaka

Hydrodynamical simulations played an important role in understanding the dynamics and shaping of planetary nebulae in the past century. However, hydrodynamical simulations were just a first order approach. The new millennium arrived with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Garcia-Segura

Recent results from high-resolution solar granulation observations indicate the existence of a population of small granular cells that are smaller than 600 km in diameter. These small convective cells strongly contribute to the total area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 B. Lemmerer , D. Utz , A. Hanslmeier , A. Veronig , S. Thonhofer , H. Grimm-Strele , R. Kariyappa

Hot, underdense bubbles powered by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are likely to play a key role in halting catastrophic cooling in the centers of cool-core galaxy clusters. We present three-dimensional simulations that capture the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

Galactic accretion interacts in complex ways with gaseous halos, including galactic winds. As a result, observational diagnostics typically probe a range of intertwined physical phenomena. Because of this complexity, cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere

Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution attempt to fully model the physics that shapes galaxies. The agreement between the morphology of simulated and real galaxies, and the way the morphological types are distributed…

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation are an invaluable tool for understanding galaxy formation and its impact on cosmological parameter inference from large-scale structure. However, their high computational cost is a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Alexandra Doytcheva , Filomela V. Gerou , Johannes U. Lange

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

We conduct two-dimensional axisymmetric (referred to as 2.5D) hydrodynamical numerical simulations of bubble evolution in clusters of galaxies. We inflate bubbles using slow, massive jets with a wide opening angle, and follow their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Assaf Sternberg , Noam Soker

This is the third paper in a series establishing a quantitative relation between inflationary scalar field potential landscapes and the relic perturbations left by the collision between bubbles produced during eternal inflation. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-13 Matthew C. Johnson , Carroll L. Wainwright , Anthony Aguirre , Hiranya V. Peiris

We present hydrodynamical simulations, using a 2-D two component model (ambient medium and pul sar wind have different specific heat ratios), of bow shocks in a representative regime for pu lsar wind driven bow-shock nebulae. We also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Bucciantini

A program is outlined, and first results described, in which fully three-dimensional, time dependent simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence are used as a basis for theoretical investigation of the physics of turbulence in stars. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 W. David Arnett , Casey Meakin

We present the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations --CAMELS-- project. CAMELS is a suite of 4,233 cosmological simulations of $(25~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc})^3$ volume each: 2,184 state-of-the-art (magneto-)hydrodynamic…

We study the $z=0$ properties of clusters (and large groups) of galaxies within the context of interacting and non-interacting quintessence cosmological models, using a series of adiabatic SPH simulations. Initially, we examine the average…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Edoardo Carlesi , Alexander Knebe , Geraint F. Lewis , Gustavo Yepes

A Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability of a dense colloidal layer under gravity in a capillary of microfluidic dimensions is considered. We access all relevant lengthscales with particle-level microscopy and computer simulations which…

Transport properties, such as viscosity and thermal conduction, of the hot intergalactic plasma in clusters of galaxies, are largely unknown. While for laboratory plasmas these characteristics are derived from the gas density and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-18 I. Zhuravleva , E. Churazov , A. A. Schekochihin , S. W. Allen , A. Vikhlinin , N. Werner

A physical model of a three-dimensional flow of a viscous bubbly fluid in an intermediate regime between bubble formation and breakage is presented. The model is based on mechanics and thermodynamics of a single bubble coupled to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-08 Ryan J. Thiessen , Alexei F. Cheviakov