3 papers
astro-ph.HE2025
Cosmic Ray Magnetohydrodynamics: A New Two-Moment Framework with Numerical Implementation
Xihui Zhao, Xue-Ning Bai, Eve C. Ostriker
Cosmic rays (CRs) play a pivotal role in various astrophysical systems, delivering feedback over a broad range of scales. However, modeling CR transport remains challenging due to…
astro-ph.HE2024
Kinetic simulations of the cosmic ray pressure anisotropy instability: cosmic ray scattering rate in the saturated state
Xiaochen Sun, Xue-Ning Bai, Xihui Zhao
Cosmic ray (CR) feedback plays a vital role in shaping the formation and evolution of galaxies through their interaction with magnetohydrodynamic waves. In the CR self-confinement…
astro-ph.GA2023
Simulations of Weakly Magnetized Turbulent Mixing Layers
Xihui Zhao, Xue-Ning Bai
Radiative turbulent mixing layers are expected to form pervasively at the phase boundaries in multiphase astrophysical systems. This inherently small scale structure is dynamically…