Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• List of symbols
• Abstract
• I Introduction
  • §1 Extragalactic radio jets
  • §2 Active galactic nuclei (AGN)
  • §3 Unified model for AGN
  • §4 Fluid dynamics of jets
  • §5 Bending of jets in radio galaxies
  • §6 Alignment effect in radio galaxies
  • §7 Thesis outline
• II Hydrodynamics
  • §8 Energy-momentum tensor in relativistic hydrodynamics
  • §9 Equations of motion in relativistic fluid dynamics
  • §10 Classical equations of hydrodynamics
  • §11 Characteristics
  • §12 Polytropic gases
  • §13 Shock waves in hydrodynamics
  • §14 One-dimensional similarity flow
• III Jet-cloud interactions: bent jets
  • §15 Background to jet-cloud interactions
  • §16 Initial stages of the interaction
  • §17 Classical analysis
  • §18 Isothermal cloud
  • §19 Gas within a dark matter halo
  • §20 Relativistic analysis
  • §21 Isothermal cloud and dark matter halo
  • §22 Discussion
• IV Stability of non-straight jets
  • §23 Prandtl-Meyer flow
  • §24 Steady simple waves
  • §25 Curved jets
• V Shock-cloud collisions
  • §26 Background to shock-cloud collisions
  • §27 General description of the problem
  • §28 First initial discontinuity
  • §29 Second initial discontinuity
  • §30 General solution
  • §31 Summary
• VI Astrophysical Applications
  • §32 Radio trail sources
  • §33 Bent jets in powerful radio sources
  • §34 Discontinuities in jet-cloud collisions
• Summary and Conclusions
• Bibliography
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