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Large eddy simulations in plasma astrophysics. Weakly compressible turbulence in local interstellar medium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2011

A. A. Chernyshov ,
K. V. Karelsky  and
A. S. Petrosyan
A. A. Chernyshov
Affiliation:
Theoretical section, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997, Moscow, Russia email: apetrosy@iki.rssi.ru
K. V. Karelsky
Affiliation:
Theoretical section, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997, Moscow, Russia email: apetrosy@iki.rssi.ru
A. S. Petrosyan
Affiliation:
Theoretical section, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997, Moscow, Russia email: apetrosy@iki.rssi.ru
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Abstract

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We apply large eddy simulation technique to carry out three-dimensional numerical simulation of compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in conditions relevant local interstellar medium. According to large eddy simulation method, the large-scale part of the flow is computed directly and only small-scale structures of turbulence are modeled. The small-scale motion is eliminated from the initial system of equations of motion by filtering procedures and their effect is taken into account by special closures referred to as the subgrid-scale models. Establishment of weakly compressible limit with Kolmogorov-like density fluctuations spectrum is shown in present work. We use our computations results to study dynamics of the turbulent plasma beta and anisotropic properties of the magnetoplasma fluctuations in the local interstellar medium.

Keywords

turbulenceISM: kinematics and dynamicsmethods: numerical
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S274: Advances in Plasma Astrophysics , September 2010 , pp. 80 - 84
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

References

Chernyshov, A., Karelsky, K., & Petrosyan, A. 2007, Phys. Fluids, 19, 5, 055106CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chernyshov, A., Karelsky, K., & Petrosyan, A. 2008, Phys. Fluids, 20, 8, 085106CrossRefGoogle Scholar