Pittard, JM orcid.org/0000-0003-2244-5070 (2022) Momentum and energy injection by a wind-blown bubble into an inhomogeneous interstellar medium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515 (2). pp. 1815-1829. ISSN 0035-8711
Abstract
We investigate the effect of mass-loading from embedded clouds on the evolution of wind-blown bubbles. We use 1D hydrodynamical calculations and assume that the clouds are numerous enough that they can be treated in the continuous limit, and that rapid mixing occurs so that the injected mass quickly merges with the global flow. The destruction of embedded clouds adds mass into the bubble, increasing its density. Mass-loading increases the temperature of the unshocked stellar wind due to the frictional drag, and reduces the temperature of the hot shocked gas as the available thermal energy is shared between more particles. Mass-loading may increase or decrease the volume-averaged bubble pressure. Mass-loaded bubbles are smaller, having less retained energy and lower radial momentum, but in all cases examined, they are still able to do significant PdV work on the swept-up gas. In this latter respect, the bubbles more closely resemble energy-conserving bubbles than the momentum-conserving-like behaviour of ‘quenched’ bubbles.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | stars: early-type, stars: massive, stars: winds, outflows, ISM: bubbles, ISM: kinematics and dynamics, galaxies: ISM |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) > Astrophysics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) ST/P00041X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2022 16:49 |
Last Modified: | 15 May 2024 13:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/mnras/stac1954 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193971 |