Simulations of Shock-Cloud Interactions

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Much work has been done on studying the interaction of blast waves with interstellar clouds, particularly the engulfing of small spherical clouds, and there is a reasonably solid understanding of the gasdynamics involved. Considerably less work has been done in modeling the phases as the cloud shock becomes radiative, especially for larger nonspherical clouds. I present preliminary results for numerical simulations of the interaction of a blast wave with a nonspherical cloud and the development of a radiative cloud shock. Radiative cooling is approximated by a time-independent isobaric cooling function with cosmic abundances; complete preionization is assumed. The simulation is a 2D PPM calculation in cartesian coordinates. It is a moderately high resolution calculation (o(10) cells per cooling length for the main cloud shock). The results are compared to a similar nonradiative calculation; the dependence on the sharpness of the cloud edge is also explored.

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