Energy and Momentum Transfer via Coulomb Frictions in Relativistic Two Fluids

2006/11/04 by Katsuaki Asano, S. Iwamoto, Shizuo Iwamoto +1 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Atomic physics #Classical mechanics #Computational physics #Coulomb #Energy (signal processing) #Energy transfer #Energy–momentum relation #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Momentum (technical analysis) #Momentum transfer #Nuclear physics #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Simple (philosophy) #Transfer (computing) #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/509762

29 pages, 11 figures. accepted for publication in ApJS

arxiv created 2006/11/04 · arxiv published 2006/11/04 · arxiv updated 2006/11/04 · openalex publication_date 2007/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We numerically calculate the energy and momentum transfer rates due to Coulomb scattering between two fluids moving with a relative velocity. The results are fitted by simple functions. The fitting formulae are useful to simulate outflows from active galactic nuclei and compact high energy sources.

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