3D-numerical simulations of the magnetic field evolution in a turbulent interstellar gas
作者:
Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur,
Marek Urbanik,
期刊:
Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
(Taylor Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 75,
issue 1
页码: 61-75
ISSN:0309-1929
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1080/03091929408203647
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Galaxies;turbulence;interstellar gas;magnetic fields
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
A fully three-dimensional kinematic model is applied to simulate the evolution of the magnetic field in a small (120 pc in size) volume of the turbulent interstellar medium in the presence of the field diffusion. Turbulent motions are approximated by a sequence of non-overlapping in time vortices having the form of rotating gas columns much longer than the parcel size. A combined action of vertical vortices and those inclined at the angle of 30° to the galactic plane is considered. Due to the Coriolis force and density stratification their motions have a non-zero helicity. The magnetic field is found to evolve towards the structure resembling a fragment of a twisted flux tube, well-ordered over the volume analyzed. Its sense of twisting is determined by the vortex helicity.
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