Chemical mixing in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations

Details Chemical mixing in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations Chemical mixing in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations

2008-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/0808.0843v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures, published in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14169.x

We introduce a simple and efficient algorithm for diffusion in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations and apply it to the problem of chemical mixing. Based on the concept of turbulent diffusion, we link the diffusivity of a pollutant to the local physical conditions and can thus resolve mixing in space and time. We apply our prescription to the evolution of an idealized supernova remnant and find that we can model the distribution of heavy elements without having to explicitly resolve hydrodynamic instabilities in the post-shock gas. Instead, the dispersal of the pollutant is implicitly modelled through its dependence on the local velocity dispersion. Our method can thus be used in any SPH simulation that investigates chemical mixing but lacks the necessary resolution on small scales. Potential applications include the enrichment of the interstellar medium in present-day galaxies, as well as the intergalactic medium at high redshifts.

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