Two-dimensional simulations of strongly anisotropic supernova explosions of a nonrotating 15 M ⊙ blue supergiant progenitor are presented, which follow the hydrodynamic evolution from times shortly after shock formation until hours later. It is shown that explosions which around the time of shock revival are dominated by low-order unstable modes (i.e. by a superposition of the l = 2 and l = 1 m...

We study the non-spherical gravitational collapse of the strange quark null fluid. The interesting feature which emerges is that the non-spherical collapse of charged strange quark matter leads to a naked singularity whereas the gravitational collapse of neutral quark matter proceeds to form a black hole. In the present brief report we extend the earlier work of T.Harko and K.S.Cheng to the non...

Motivated by observations of supernova SN1987A, various authors have simulated Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instabilities in the envelopes of core collapse supernovae (for a review, see [1]). The non-radial motion found in these simulations qualitatively agreed with observations in SN1987A, but failed to explain the extent of mixing of newly synthesized Ni quantitatively. Here we present results of a 2...

A high-order accurate shock- and interface-capturing scheme is used to simulate the collapse of a gas bubble in water. In order to better understand the damage caused by collapsing bubbles, the dynamics of the shock-induced and Rayleigh collapse of a bubble near a planar rigid surface and in a free field are analysed. Collapse times, bubble displacements, interfacial velocities and surface pres...