#shock waves

7 results
nucl-th2026

Relativistic transport near moving interfaces

Lorenzo Gavassino

The paper studies linear disturbances near planar surfaces moving at constant speed in relativistic media, presenting a propagator-based geometric framework that unifies the descri…

#moving interfaces#boundary layers#shock waves#relativistic transport
math.AP2026

The contraction of solutions with large perturbation in multiple space dimensions from the oscillatory dispersive planar shock

Geng Chen, Harish Ravichandar, Yannan Shen

The paper proves that planar oscillatory or monotone dispersive shock profiles of the dissipative Kadomtsev‑Petviashvili equation and the multi‑dimensional KdV‑Burgers equation con…

#shock waves#dispersive equations#stability analysis#L2 contraction
physics.flu-dyn2026

Kinetic Linear Stability Theory for High-Speed Compressible Flows: A High Performance Computing Framework

Irmak Taylan Karpuzcu, Deborah Levin, Vassilis Theofilis

The paper develops a kinetic linear stability theory for one‑dimensional normal shocks by linearizing the Boltzmann‑BGK equation and implements a high‑performance parallel solver t…

#shock waves#kinetic theory#linear stability#high-speed compressible flow
astro-ph.GA2026

Merging galaxies and clusters: Insights into the role of magnetic fields and the physics of radio relics

Joseph Whittingham

The thesis uses high‑resolution cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study how magnetic fields evolve during galaxy mergers and how shock‑driven radio relics form in mer…

#galaxy mergers#cluster mergers#magnetic fields#radio relics
math.AP2026

Shock solutions for the one-dimensional information geometric regularization of compressible flow

William Barham, Brian K. Tran, Ben S. Southworth +1

The paper proves existence, uniqueness, and regularity of one‑dimensional shock‑type traveling wave solutions for the information geometric regularization of the compressible Euler…

#shock waves#compressible Euler equations#information geometric regularization#traveling wave solutions
astro-ph.HE2026

EP-FXT Observations of Abell 1795: X-ray Properties and Structure out to

Y. Tang, S. M. Jia, H. H. Zhao +20

The paper presents deep X‑ray observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 1795 with the EP‑FXT instrument, measuring its temperature profile out to the virial radius and revealing a s…

#galaxy clusters#x-ray astronomy#intracluster medium#cold fronts
cs.LG2026

SPARC-Net: A Spectral, Causality-Aware, and Hard-Constrained Physics-Informed Architecture for Stiff and Shock-Dominated Partial Differential Equations

Divyavardhan Singh, Dimple Sonone, Hammad Mohammad +1

The paper introduces SPARC-Net, a physics-informed neural network architecture that combines spectral encoding, causality-aware training, and hard constraints to improve the soluti…

#physics-informed neural networks#partial differential equations#stiff problems#shock waves