Visualizations
Plasmoid Instability
Temperature Field Visualization
Rotating volume rendering of the temperature field of a patch of the turbulent, thermally unstable, magnetized interstellar medium. Blue is cold (10 K), yellow/orange is warm (10,000 K), and some magnetic field lines are shown as white tubes.
Multi-scale Temperature Visualization
A different rotating volume rendering of the temperature field of a patch of the turbulent, thermally unstable, magnetized interstellar medium. Blue is cold (10 K), yellow/orange is warm (10,000 K), and some magnetic field lines are shown as purple tubes. The orange, green, and blue boxes are subvolumes shown in the following movies.
Subvolume Visualizations
3D Resistive MHD Simulation
Step through along y axis of 3D Resistive MHD simulation of a turbulent thermally unstable medium. The left panel shows the electric current, the middle shows plasma beta, and the right shows the temperature.
Z-axis Step Through
Step through along z axis of 3D Resistive MHD simulation of a turbulent thermally unstable medium
2.5D Plasmoid Formation
Plasmoids forming in 2.5D simulations of high-β systems - Zoom in
Radiative Turbulent Mixing Layers
Volume Rendering of Mixing Layer
Color shows the turbulent velocity and the opacity follows temperature, with hot transparent and cold opaque.
Rapidly Cooling Simulation
Fractal Cooling Surface
Visualization of the fractal surface where cooling takes place in rapid cooling simulations
Clustered SNe Driving Galactic Winds
Visualization of clustered supernovae driving a galactic wind