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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Supernova, nuclear synthesis, fluid instabilities, and interfacial mixing
Contributor:
Abarzhi, Snezhana I.;
Bhowmick, Aklant K.;
Naveh, Annie;
Pandian, Arun;
Swisher, Nora C.;
Stellingwerf, Robert F.;
Arnett, W. David
Published:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
Published in:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (2019) 37, Seite 18184-18192
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1714502115
ISSN:
0027-8424;
1091-6490
Origination:
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Description:
Supernovae and their remnants are a central problem in astrophysics due to their role in the stellar evolution and nuclear synthesis. A supernova’s explosion is driven by a blast wave causing the development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities and leading to intensive interfacial mixing of materials of a progenitor star. Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov mixing breaks spherical symmetry of a star and provides conditions for synthesis of heavy mass elements in addition to light mass elements synthesized in the star before its explosion. By focusing on hydrodynamic aspects of the problem, we apply group theory analysis to identify the properties of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov dynamics with variable acceleration, discover subdiffusive character of the blast wave-induced interfacial mixing, and reveal the mechanism of energy accumulation and transport at small scales in supernovae.