The danger of nearby supernova and the protective power of solar wind
(group 8)
Members: Rashi, Rad, Alex B.
Procedure
1d: steady cloud of gas
1d: hit it with supernova shock / plain wave
1d: add source → turn cloud into wind
move to 2d
parametric study: What is the kill radius at given explosion energy and solar wind strength?
production of the “Battle of the Winds” movie blockbuster
Logbook
Date: 06/02/2014
1d version of steady cloud of gas created using the following parameters:
Pressure : pcloud = 1
Density : rcloud = 1
Velocity : ucloud = 0
Ambient density : ramb = 1e-04
Then we created a 1d shock wave and let it hit the cloud using the following parameters:
Pressure : pshock = 10000
Density : rshock = 0.5
Velocity : vshock = 0
Having succesfully performed the above two steps, we replced the steady cloud of gas with a source generating outgoing mass flow which basically represents 1d version of the solar wind. For the same, we introduced a velocity of 5 at the center in two oppisite directions and a density of 2.
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