Turbulent stresses as a function of shear rate in a local disk model

Details Turbulent stresses as a function of shear rate in a local disk model Turbulent stresses as a function of shear rate in a local disk model

2008-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/0811.2341v1

Astron. Nachr. 330, 92-99 (2009)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten

Scientific paper

10.1002/asna.200811131

We present local numerical models of accretion disk turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability with varying shear rate. The resulting turbulent stresses are compared with predictions of a closure model in which triple correlations are modelled in terms of quadratic correlations. This local model uses five nondimensional parameters to describe the properties of the flow. We attempt to determine these closure parameters for our simulations and find that the model does produce qualitatively correct behaviour. In addition, we present results concerning the shear rate dependency of the magnetic to kinetic energy ratio. We find both the turbulent stress ratio and the total stress to be strongly dependent on the shear rate.

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