Dynamical friction in an isentropic gas

DOI10.1007/S10509-012-1041-6zbMATH Open1284.85020arXiv1203.0629OpenAlexW2014497218MaRDI QIDQ2443571FDOQ2443571

Authors: Fazeleh Khajenabi, Sami Dib 

Publication date: 8 April 2014

Published in: Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: When a gravitating object moves across a given mass distribution, it creates an overdense wake behind it. Here, we performed an analytical study of the structure of the flow far from object when the flow is isentropic and the object moves subsonically within it. We show that the dynamical friction force is the main drag force on the object and by using a perturbation theory, we obtain the density, velocity and pressure of the perturbed flow far from the mass. We derive the expression of the dynamical friction force in an isentropic flow and show its dependence on the Mach number of the flow and on the adiabatic index. We find that the dynamical friction force becomes lower as the adiabatic index increases. We show analytically that the wakes are less dense in our isentropic case in comparison to the isothermal ones.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0629

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zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamicsgalaxies kinematics and dynamicsISM generalstars kinematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

Cites Work

• Dynamical Friction. I. General Considerations: the Coefficient of Dynamical Friction.
• Numerical tests of dynamical friction in gravitational inhomogeneous systems

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