Turbulence and its parameterization in accretion discs：（动荡和其在吸积盘的参数化）.pdfVIP

Astron. Nachr. / AN 326, No. 9, 787–797 (2005) / DOI 10.1002/asna.200510414 Turbulence and its parameterization in accretion discs A. BRANDENBURG NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Received 8 September 2005; accepted 22 September 2005; published online 20 October 2005 Abstract. Accretion disc turbulence is investigated in the framework of the shearing box approximation. The turbulence is either driven by the magneto-rotational instability or, in the non-magnetic case, by an explicit and artificial forcing term in the momentum equation. Unlike the magnetic case, where most of the dissipation occurs in the disc corona, in the forced hydrodynamic case most of the dissipation occurs near the midplane. In the hydrodynamic case evidence is presented for the stochastic excitation of epicycles. When the vertical and radial epicyclic frequencies are different (modeling the properties around rotating black holes), the beat frequency between these two frequencies appear to show up as a peak in the temporal power spectrum in some cases. Finally, the full turbulent resistivity tensor is determined and it is found that, if the turbulence is driven by a forcing term, the signs of its off-diagonal components are such that this effect would not be capable of dynamo action by the shear–current effect. Key words: accretion, accretion discs – magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) – turbulence c 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim 1. Introduction quite loosely also to MRI-driven turbulence without distin- guishing between the different forms of driving. In order to It is now