Grid-Adaptive Computations of Magnetized Jets

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Nov 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005ssrv..121...65k&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, Volume 121, Issue 1-4, pp. 65-75

Computer Science

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Mhd, Amr, Jets, Numerical

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We present grid-adaptive numerical simulations of magnetized plasma jets, modeled by means of the compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations. The Adaptive Mesh Refinement strategy makes it possible to investigate long-term jet dynamics where both large-scale and small-scale effects are at play. We extend recent findings for uniformly magnetized, periodic shear layers to planar and fully 3D extended jet segments. The jet lengths cover multiple, typically 10, axial wavelengths of the fastest growing Kelvin Helmholtz (KH) like modes. The dominant linear MHD instabilities of the jet flows are quantified by means of MHD spectroscopic analysis. In cases characterized by sonic Mach numbers about unity and large plasma beta values, both single and double shear layers (planar jets) manifest self-organizing trends to large scales, e.g. by continuous pairing/merging between co-rotating vortices, simultaneously with the introduction of small-scale features by magnetic reconnection events. The vortices form as a result of KH unstable shear-flow layers, and their coalescence arises from the growth of subharmonic modes at multiple wavelengths of the fastest growing KH instability. In extended two-dimensional jet segments, we investigate how varying jet width alters this coalescence process occurring at both edges, e.g. by introducing Batchelor-like coupling between counter-rotating vortices formed at opposing weakly magnetized, close shear layers. Finally, periodic segments of supersonic magnetized jets are simulated in two- and three-dimensional cases, which are characterized by violent shock-dominated transients.

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