Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-11-22
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 339 (2003) 983
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 23 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. A gzipped postscript version including high resolution figures is ava
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06246.x
This is the first of a series of papers aimed at developing and interpreting simulations of protoplanets interacting with turbulent accretion discs. Here we study the disc models prior to the introduction of a protoplanet.We study models in which a Keplerian domain is unstable to the magnetorotational instability (MRI). Various models with B-fields having zero net flux are considered.We relate the properties of the models to classical viscous disc theory.All models attain a turbulent state with volume averaged stress parameter alpha ~ 0.005. At any particular time the vertically and azimuthally averaged value exhibited large fluctuations in radius. Time averaging over periods exceeding 3 orbital periods at the outer boundary of the disc resulted in a smoother quantity with radial variations within a factor of two or so. The vertically and azimuthally averaged radial velocity showed much larger spatial and temporal fluctuations, requiring additional time averaging for 7-8 orbital periods at the outer boundary to limit them. Comparison with the value derived from the averaged stress using viscous disc theory yielded schematic agreement for feasible averaging times but with some indication that the effects of residual fluctuations remained. The behaviour described above must be borne in mind when considering laminar disc simulations with anomalous Navier--Stokes viscosity. This is because the operation of a viscosity as in classical viscous disc theory with anomalous viscosity coefficient cannot apply to a turbulent disc undergoing rapid changes due to external perturbation. The classical theory can only be used to describe the time averaged behaviour of the parts of the disc that are in a statistically steady condition for long enough for appropriate averaging to be carried out.
Nelson Richard P.
Papaloizou John C. B.
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