| dc.contributor.advisor | Mark Vogelsberger. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Kulchoakrungsun, Ekapob | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-05T19:54:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-05T19:54:18Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2016 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105598 | |
| dc.description | Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2016. | en_US |
| dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (page 36). | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Ekapob Kulchoakrungsun. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 36 pages | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.rights | M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Physics. | en_US |
| dc.title | Global simulations of heat-flux-driven buoyancy and magnetothermal instabilities, and their astrophysical implications | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | S.B. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 961321804 | en_US |
