Envelope expansion with core collapse—I. Spherical isothermal similarity solutions

YQ Lou, Y Shen - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We investigate self-similar dynamical processes in an isothermal self-gravitational fluid with
spherical symmetry. With reference to the earlier complementary solution results of Larson …

The similarity hypothesis in general relativity

BJ Carr, AA Coley - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2005 - Springer
Self-similar models are important in general relativity and other fundamental theories. In this
paper we shall discuss the “similarity hypothesis”, which asserts that under a variety of …

Gravitational collapse of self-similar perfect fluid in 2+ 1 gravity

AY Miguelote, NA Tomimura, A Wang - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2004 - Springer
Perfect fluid with kinematic self-similarity is studied in 2+ 1 dimensional spacetimes with
circular symmetry, and various exact solutions to the Einstein field equations are given …

Spherical isothermal self-similar shock flows

FY Bian, YQ Lou - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We explore self-similar dynamical processes in a spherical isothermal self-gravitational fluid
with an emphasis on shocks and outline astrophysical applications of such shock solutions …

Envelope expansion with core collapse—II. Quasi-spherical self-similar solutions for an isothermal magnetofluid

C Yu, YQ Lou - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We investigate self-similar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes in an isothermal self-
gravitating fluid with a quasi-spherical symmetry and extend the envelope expansion with …

A classification of spherically symmetric kinematic self-similar perfect-fluid solutions. II

H Maeda, T Harada, H Iguchi… - Progress of theoretical …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We give a classification of spherically symmetric kinematic self-similar solutions. This
classification is complementary to that given in a previous work by the present authors [Prog …

Gravitational collapse of an anisotropic fluid with self-similarity of the second kind

CFC Brandt, R Chan, MFA Da Silva… - … Journal of Modern …, 2006 - World Scientific
We study the evolution of an anisotropic fluid with kinematic self-similarity of the second
kind. We found a class of solution to the Einstein field equations by assuming an equation of …

Kinematic self-similar cylindrically symmetric solutions

M Sharif, S Aziz - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2005 - World Scientific
This paper is devoted to find out cylindrically symmetric kinematic self-similar perfect fluid
and dust solutions. We study the cylindrically symmetric solutions which admit kinematic self …

Kinematic self-similar plane symmetric solutions

M Sharif, S Aziz - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper is devoted to classifying the most general plane symmetric spacetimes according
to kinematic self-similar perfect fluid and dust solutions. We provide a classification of the …

On physical properties of cylindrically symmetric self-similar solutions

M Sharif, S Aziz - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2005 - World Scientific
This paper is devoted to discuss some of the features of self-similar solutions of the first kind.
We consider the cylindrically symmetric solutions with different homotheties. We are …