Global simulations of heat-flux-driven buoyancy and magnetothermal instabilities, and their astrophysical implications
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Author(s)
Kulchoakrungsun, Ekapob
Advisor(s)
Mark Vogelsberger.
Date Issued
2016
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
In this thesis, we investigate the convective instabilities induced by anisotropic conduction in a rapidly conducting plasma. We simulate the magneto-thermal instability (MTI), and the heat-flux-driven buoyancy instability (HBI) in two- and three- dimensional, global hydrodynamic simulations performed by the AREPO code, and verify the results of previous works. Our results have important astrophysical implications, such as the conductive heat transport in galaxy clusters.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 36).
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Physics.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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