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Galaxy cluster mergers are a powerful laboratory for testing cosmological andastrophysical models. However, interpreting individual merging clusters dependscrucially on their merger configuration, defined by the masses, velocities,impact parameters, and orientation of the merger axis with respect to the planeof the sky. In this work, we investigate the impact of merger parameters on theX-ray emitting intracluster medium and gravitational lensing maps using a suiteof idealised simulations of binary cluster mergers performed using the GAMER-2code. As a test case, we focus on modeling the Bullet Cluster-like mergingsystem Abell 2146, in which deep \textit{Chandra} X-ray and lensingobservations revealed prominent merger shocks as well as the mass distributionand substructures associated with this merging cluster. We identify the mostinteresting parameter combinations, and evaluate the effects of variousparameters on the properties of merger shocks observed by deep \textit{Chandra}and lensing observations. We show that due gravitational compression of thecluster halos during the merger, previous mass estimates from weak lensing aretoo high. The plane of the merger is tilted further from the plane of the skythan estimated previously, up to $30^\circ$ from the plane of the sky. Wediscuss the applicability of our results to multi-wavelength observations ofmerging galaxy clusters and their use as probes of cosmology and plasmaphysics.

Constraining Merging Galaxy Clusters with X-ray and Lensing Simulations and Observations: The case of Abell 2146