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An exact model for magnetized and rotating outflows, underpressured at their axis, is analysed by means of a nonlinear separation of the variables in the two-dimensional governing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations for axisymmetric…

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Geometrically-resolved Direct Numerical Simulations of vertical-axis wind turbines are presented. Simulations were performed using the spectral/hp element method framework Nektar++ with a moving reference frame formulation. Three turbine…

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In Paper I, we showed that steady line-driven disk wind solutions can exist by using "simple" models that mimic the disk environment. Here I extend the concepts introduced in Paper I and discuss many details of the analysis of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Pereyra

We consider a spherical variant of the Faraday problem, in which a spherical drop is subjected to a time-periodic body force, as well as surface tension. We use a full three-dimensional parallel front-tracking code to calculate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-14 Ali-higo Ebo-Adou , Laurette S. Tuckerman , Seungwon Shin , Jalel Chergui , Damir Juric

Radiation-driven winds of massive stars can be described within the modified CAK theory, which parametrises the radiation force through three key quantities: $\alpha$, $\delta$, and $k$. Different combinations of these parameters, together…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 M. C. Fernandez , R. O. J. Venero , L. S. Cidale , I. Araya , M. Curé

Motivated by observations of multiphase galaxy outflows, we explore the impact of isotropic and anisotropic electron thermal conduction on the evolution of radiatively-cooled, cold clouds embedded in hot, magnetized winds. Using the…

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(abridged) We continue our study of weakly ionized protostellar discs that are threaded by a large-scale magnetic field and power a centrifugally driven wind. It has been argued that in several protostellar systems such a wind transports a…

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A hybrid spectral/finite-element code is developed to numerically solve the resistive finite-pressure magnetohydrodynamic equilibria without the necessity of postulating nested magnetic flux surfaces in the non-axisymmetric toroidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Jian Zhang , Ping Zhu , Chris C. Hegna

Starting from the Navier--Stokes equations in rotating spherical coordinates with constant density and eddy viscosity varying only with depth, and appropriate, physically motivated boundary conditions, we derive an asymptotic model for the…

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Bathed in intense ionizing radiation, close-in gaseous planets undergo hydrodynamic atmospheric escape, which ejects the upper extent of their atmospheres into the interplanetary medium. Ultraviolet detections of escaping gas around…

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The full compressible Navier-Stokes system describing the motion of a viscous, compressible, heat-conductive, and Newtonian polytropic fluid is studied in a three-dimensional simply connected bounded domain with smooth boundary having a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Jing Li , Boqiang Lü , Xue Wang

We consider a nonlinear variational wave equation that models the dynamics of the director field in nematic liquid crystals with high molecular rotational inertia. Being derived from an energy principle, energy stability is an intrinsic…

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The status of numerical hydrodynamical models for Planetary Nebulae is reviewed. Since all of the numerical work is based on the interacting winds model, we start with a description of this model and give an overview of the early analytical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garrelt Mellema , Adam Frank

Aims. We present the implementation of the treatment of particle ejection and dust nucleation in the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code phantom. These developments represent the first step toward a more complete modeling of…

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We solve the two-dimensional hydrodynamic equations of hot accretion flow in the presence of the thermal conduction. The flow is assumed to be in steady-state and axisymmetric, and self-similar approximation is adopted in the radial…

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This paper deals with the numerical modeling of transient mechanical waves in linear viscoelastic solids. Dissipation mechanisms are described using the generalized Zener model. No time convolutions are required thanks to the introduction…

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I present a flexible solution for the axisymmetric Jeans equations of stellar hydrodynamics under the assumption of an anisotropic (three-integral) velocity ellipsoid aligned with the spherical polar coordinate system. I describe and test a…

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Initial results are presented from 3D MHD modelling of stellar-wind bubbles around O stars moving supersonically through the ISM. We describe algorithm updates that enable high-resolution 3D MHD simulations at reasonable computational cost.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-06 Jonathan Mackey , Samuel Green , Maria Moutzouri

We are developing a 3D radiation hydrodynamics code to simulate the interaction of convection and pulsation in classical variable stars. One key goal is the ability to carry these simulations to full amplitude in order to compare them with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Chris M. Geroux , Robert G. Deupree

We consider the general problem of a Parker-type non-relativistic isothermal wind from a rotating and magnetic star. Using the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code athena++, we construct an array of simulations in the stellar rotation rate…

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