Morphology of shocked lateral outflows in colliding hydrodynamic flows

Supersonic interacting flows occurring in phenomena, such as protostellar jets, give rise to strong shocks and have been demonstrated several laboratory experiments. To study colliding flows, we use the AstroBEAR AMR code conduct hydrodynamic simulations three dimensions. We introduce variations flow parameters of density, velocity, cross-sectional radius order propagation conical shape bow shock formed by collisions between two, not necessarily symmetric, hypersonic flows. find that motion interaction region is driven imbalances ram pressure two while structure a result shocked lateral outflows being deflected from horizontal when are differing cross sections.