Numerical Simulations of Interaction between Stellar Wind and Interstellar Medium

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Apr 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989pthph..81..810m&link_type=abstract

Progress of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 810-822

Physics

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Hydrodynamic interaction between supersonic spherical wind emitted from an astronomical object and a uniform streaming flow is simulated numerically assuming the flow to be axisymmetric, adiabatic and inviscid. Examples of such a phenomenon are a comet in the solar wind, and the solar wind or a stellar wind in an interstellar medium. Three cases of the incident flow, i.e., subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flow, are considered. Discontinuities in the flow, i.e., a bow shock, a contact surface, an inner shock, a Mach disc and a slip surface are identified. The contact surface and the slip surface are found to be Kelvin-Helmoholtz unstable. Other instabilities occurring near the stagnation region and the inner shock are also found.

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