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净磁通为零的剪切盒中磁旋转不稳定性的MHD模拟。II。输运系数的影响

MHD simulations of the magnetorotational instability in a shearing box with zero net flux. II. The effect of transport coefficients

S. Fromang, J. Papaloizou, G. Lesur, T. Heinemann

摘要:

研究了输运系数(粘度和电阻率)的选择对吸积盘中磁旋转不稳定性(MRI)驱动的MHD湍流的影响。我们遵循的方法,在文件I中描述:我们采用了一个非分层剪切盒模型,并专注于的情况下,净垂直磁通量线程盒消失。在大多数情况下,我们使用有限差分代码ZEUS,包括显式的传输系数的计算。然而,我们也比较我们的结果与使用其他算法(NIRVANA,PENCIL代码和频谱代码),以证明我们的结果的收敛性和数值方案的独立性。我们发现小尺度耗散对MHD湍流的饱和状态有影响。在最近的类似的数值模拟中所做的净垂直磁通量的存在下,我们发现,湍流活动(角动量传输率测量)是一个增加的函数的磁普朗特数Pm的雷诺数Re的所有值,我们调查。我们还发现当普朗特数低于一个临界值Pm_c时,湍流消失,Pm_c显然是Re的减函数。对于参数空间的有限区域,我们总是得到Pm_c>1。我们的结论是,运输系数的大小是重要的,在确定MHD湍流在数值模拟中的剪切盒与零净通量的属性,至少对于雷诺数和磁普朗特数,是这样的运输是不占主导地位的数值效应,因此可以使用当前的计算资源进行探测。

英文摘要:

We study the influence of the choice of transport coefficients (viscosity and resistivity) on MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in accretion disks. We follow the methodology described in paper I: we adopt an unstratified shearing box model and focus on the case where the net vertical magnetic flux threading the box vanishes. For the most part we use the finite difference code ZEUS, including explicit transport coefficients in the calculations. However, we also compare our results with those obtained using other algorithms (NIRVANA, the PENCIL code and a spectral code) to demonstrate both the convergence of our results and their independence of the numerical scheme. We find that small scale dissipation affects the saturated state of MHD turbulence. In agreement with recent similar numerical simulations done in the presence of a net vertical magnetic flux, we find that turbulent activity (measured by the rate of angular momentum transport) is an increasing function of the magnetic Prandtl number Pm for all values of the Reynolds number Re that we investigated. We also found that turbulence disappears when the Prandtl number falls below a critical value Pm_c that is apparently a decreasing function of Re. For the limited region of parameter space that can be probed with current computational resources, we always obtained Pm_c>1. We conclude that the magnitudes of the transport coefficients are important in determining the properties of MHD turbulence in numerical simulations in the shearing box with zero net flux, at least for Reynolds numbers and magnetic Prandtl numbers that are such that transport is not dominated by numerical effects and thus can be probed using current computational resources.

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