Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 2 figures including 5 plots. Contributed paper delivered at the Portuguese National Astronomical & Astrophysics Meeti
Scientific paper
The statistical properties of interstellar turbulence are studied by means of three-dimensional high-resolution HD and MHD simulations of a SN-driven ISM. It is found that the longitudinal and transverse turbulent length scales have time averaged (over a period of 50 Myr) ratios of 0.5-0.6, almost similar to the one expected for isotropic homogeneous turbulence. The mean characteristic size of the larger eddies is found to be ~75 pc. Furthermore, the scalings of the structure functions measured in the simulated disk show unambiguous departure from the Kolmogorv (1941) model being consistent with the latest intermittency studies of supersonic turbulence (Politano & Pouquet 1995; Boldyrev 2002). Our results are independent of the resolution, indicating that convergence has been reached, and that the unresolved smaller dissipative scales do not feed back on the larger ones.
Breitschwerdt Dieter
de Avillez Miguel A.
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