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用光滑粒子磁流体力学模拟天体物理磁场

Simulating Astrophysical Magnetic Fields with Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics

Terrence S. Tricco

摘要:

本文提出了改进光滑场磁流体动力学(SPMHD)中磁场处理的数值方法,并进行了试验。第二章是SPMHD的综述。在第三章中,我们发展了一个双曲/抛物混合格式,它可以消除来自磁场的发散误差。平均发散误差是一个数量级较低的所有测试情况下考虑,并允许稳定的模拟磁化分子云核心的引力坍缩。可以通过显式地增加双曲线波速度或通过在时间步之间循环清洁方程来改善清洁的有效性。在后者中,可以实现DivB=0。第四章研制了一种开关,以减少人工电阻率对磁场的损耗。与文献中现有的开关相比,这导致激波管测试中更尖锐的冲击轮廓,更低的磁能整体耗散,重要的是,能够在高度超阿尔文制度中捕获磁冲击。第5章比较了这些数值方法与基于网格的MHD方法(使用Flash代码)在驱动,等温,超音速湍流中的小尺度发电机放大磁场的模拟。这两个代码以指数方式放大的磁能在一个恒定的速率,虽然SPMHD显示分辨率的依赖性,从缩放的数值耗散项。时间平均饱和磁谱具有相似的形状,并且两个代码具有对数正态的磁场强度的PDF,其随着磁场饱和而变得不平衡。我们得出的结论是,SPMHD能够可靠地模拟小尺度磁场的发电机放大。第六章总结了全文,并对自激磁流体在二维剪切盒实验中激活磁转动不稳定性进行了初步的研究。

英文摘要:

Numerical methods to improve the treatment of magnetic fields in smoothed field magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) are developed and tested. Chapter 2 is a review of SPMHD. In Chapter 3, a mixed hyperbolic/parabolic scheme is developed which cleans divergence error from the magnetic field. Average divergence error is an order of magnitude lower for all test cases considered, and allows for the stable simulation of the gravitational collapse of magnetised molecular cloud cores. The effectiveness of the cleaning may be improved by explicitly increasing the hyperbolic wave speed or by cycling the cleaning equations between timesteps. In the latter, it is possible to achieve DivB=0. Chapter 4 develops a switch to reduce dissipation of the magnetic field from artificial resistivity. Compared to the existing switch in the literature, this leads to sharper shock profiles in shocktube tests, lower overall dissipation of magnetic energy, and importantly, is able to capture magnetic shocks in the highly super-Alfvenic regime. Chapter 5 compares these numerical methods against grid-based MHD methods (using the Flash code) in simulations of the small-scale dynamo amplification of a magnetic field in driven, isothermal, supersonic turbulence. Both codes exponentially amplify the magnetic energy at a constant rate, though SPMHD shows a resolution dependence that arises from the scaling of the numerical dissipation terms. The time-averaged saturated magnetic spectra have similar shape, and both codes have PDFs of magnetic field strength that are log-normal, which become lopsided as the magnetic field saturates. We conclude that SPMHD is able to reliably simulate the small-scale dynamo amplification of magnetic fields. Chapter 6 concludes the thesis and presents some preliminary work demonstrating that SPMHD can activate the magneto-rotational instability in 2D shearing box tests.

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