Energetic electromagnetic emissions by astrophysical jets like those that are launched during the collapse of amassive star and trigger gamma-ray bursts are partially attributed to relativistic internal shocks. The shocks are mediated in the collisionless plasma of such jets by the filamentation instability of counterstreaming particle beams. The filamentation instability grows fastest only if ...

In this work, molecular dynamics simulation is conducted to explore the shock wave phenomena in a nanodomain in near-field laser–material interaction. A large system consisting of over 800,000 atoms is studied. The work focuses on the kinetic and physical properties of the disturbed gas compression driven by the high speed movement of the molten particulates ejected from the solid target in a n...

The physical parameters of jets are still poorly understood. Here we present long slit spectra of the molecular hydrogen emission from the jet powered by the young stellar object in L483, from which we obtain details of the jet structure and shock velocities. The jet has a knotty structure, and, in addition, weaker emission is seen between the knots, so that emission is observed along the full ...

A finite-difference numerical method for geometrical shock dynamics has been developed based on the analogy between the nonlinear ray equations and the supersonic potential equation. The method has proven to be an efficient and inexpensive tool for approximately analyzing the focusing of weak shock waves, where complex nonlinear wave interactions occur over a large range of physical scales. The...

A new method to measure shock wave unsteadiness is presented. Time-resolved visualizations of the flow field under investigation are obtained using a high-speed schlieren optical system and the motion of the shock wave is determined by means of digital image processing. Information on the shock's unsteadiness is subsequently derived with Fourier analysis. A sample study on shock unsteadiness in...

We formally derive the simplest possible periodic wave structure consistent with time-periodic sound wave propagation in the 3 × 3 nonlinear compressible Euler equations. The construction is based on identifying the simplest periodic pattern with the property that compression is counter-balanced by rarefaction along every characteristic. Our derivation leads to an explicit description of shock-...

Numerical studies have been performed to interpret the observed “shock overtaking magnetic cloud (MC)” event by a 2.5 dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model in heliospheric meridional plane. Results of an individual MC simulation show that the MC travels with a constant bulk flow speed. The MC is injected with very strong inherent magnetic field over that in the ambient flow and expands ra...

Chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG) sensors coupled to high speed interrogation systems are described as robust diagnostic approaches to monitoring shock wave and detonation front propagation tracking events for use in high energy density shock physics applications. Taking advantage of the linear distributed spatial encoding of the spectral band in single-mode CFBGs, embedded fiber systems and ass...