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A Numerical Study of Relativistic Jets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

J.A. Font ,
J.M. Marti ,
J.M. Ibáñez  and
E. Müller
J.A. Font
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Karl-Schwarzschild-Str.1, 85740 Garching, Germany
J.M. Marti
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Karl-Schwarzschild-Str.1, 85740 Garching, Germany
J.M. Ibáñez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Karl-Schwarzschild-Str.1, 85740 Garching, Germany
E. Müller
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Karl-Schwarzschild-Str.1, 85740 Garching, Germany

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Numerical simulations of supersonic jets are able to explain the structures observed in many VLA images of radio sources. The improvements achieved in classical simulations (see Hardee, these proceedings) are in contrast with the almost complete lack of relativistic simulations the reason being that numerical difficulties arise from the highly relativistic flows typical of extragalactic jets. For our study, we have developed a two-dimensional code which is based on (i) an explicit conservative differencing of the special relativistic hydrodynamics (SRH) equations and (ii) the use of an approximate Riemann solver (see Martí et al. 1995a,b and references therein).

Type
Radio Source Modelling and Emission Mechanisms
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 175: Extragalactic Radio Sources , 1996 , pp. 435 - 436
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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