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MRI生成的turbulence中的湍流电阻率评估

Turbulent resistivity evaluation in MRI generated turbulence

G. Lesur, P-Y. Longaretti

摘要:

MRI湍流是通过湍流粘性效应在吸积盘中产生角动量的有效湍流传输的主要机制。据信,同样的过程也可以在磁盘中传输大规模的磁场,重塑这些物体中的磁性结构。这个过程被称为湍流电阻率,已经被提出并用于几个吸积-喷射模型和模拟中,以产生喷流。尽管如此,MRI驱动的湍流传输大规模磁场的效率在很大程度上是未知的。我们研究这个问题的分析和数值。我们介绍了一个线性计算的MRI中存在的空间不均匀的平均磁场。我们表明,在这种配置中,MRI模式导致一个有效的磁场运输,角动量运输的顺序。接下来,我们使用完全非线性模拟MRI湍流计算湍流电阻率在几个磁配置。我们发现,湍流电阻率是在我们所有的模拟湍流粘性的顺序,虽然有点低。湍流电阻率张量被发现是高度各向异性的扩散系数3倍以上,在径向方向比在垂直方向。这些结果支持驱动射流从湍流盘的可能性,由此产生的射流可能是不稳定的。

英文摘要:

(abriged) MRI turbulence is a leading mechanism for the generation of an efficient turbulent transport of angular momentum in an accretion disk through a turbulent viscosity effect. It is believed that the same process could also transport large-scale magnetic fields in disks, reshaping the magnetic structures in these objects. This process, known as turbulent resistivity, has been suggested and used in several accretion-ejection models and simulations to produce jets. Still, the efficiency of MRI-driven turbulence to transport large-scale magnetic fields is largely unknown. We investigate this problem both analytically and numerically. We introduce a linear calculation of the MRI in the presence of a spatially inhomogeneous mean magnetic field. We show that, in this configuration, MRI modes lead to an efficient magnetic field transport, on the order of the angular momentum transport. We next use fully non linear simulations of MRI turbulence to compute the turbulent resistivity in several magnetic configurations. We find that the turbulent resistivity is on the order of the turbulent viscosity in all our simulations, although somewhat lower. The turbulent resistivity tensor is found to be highly anisotropic with a diffusion coefficient 3 times greater in the radial direction than in the vertical direction. These results support the possibility of driving jets from turbulent disks; the resulting jets may not be steady.

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