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Large eddy simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

dc.contributor.advisorSchleicher, Dominik Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.authorGrete, Philipp
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-13T10:53:33Z
dc.date.available2017-02-13T10:53:33Z
dc.date.issued2017-02-13
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-002B-7D3F-F
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-6121
dc.language.isoengde
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc530de
dc.titleLarge eddy simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulencede
dc.typecumulativeThesisde
dc.contributor.refereeSchmidt, Wolfram PD Dr.
dc.date.examination2016-09-09
dc.subject.gokPhysik (PPN621336750)de
dc.description.abstractengSupersonic, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is thought to play an important role in many processes — especially in astrophysics, where detailed three-dimensional observations are scarce. Simulations can partially fill this gap and help to understand these processes. However, direct simulations with realistic parameters are often not feasible. Consequently, large eddy simulations (LES) have emerged as a viable alternative. In LES the overall complexity is reduced by simulating only large and intermediate scales directly. The smallest scales, usually referred to as subgrid-scales (SGS), are introduced to the simulation by means of an SGS model. Thus, the overall quality of an LES with respect to properly accounting for small-scale physics crucially depends on the quality of the SGS model. While there has been a lot of successful research on SGS models in the hydrodynamic regime for decades, SGS modeling in MHD is a rather recent topic, in particular, in the compressible regime. In this thesis, we derive and validate a new nonlinear MHD SGS model that explicitly takes compressibility effects into account. A filter is used to separate the large and intermediate scales, and it is thought to mimic finite resolution effects. In the derivation, we use a deconvolution approach on the filter kernel. With this approach, we are able to derive nonlinear closures for all SGS terms in MHD: the turbulent Reynolds and Maxwell stresses, and the turbulent electromotive force (EMF). We validate the new closures both a priori and a posteriori. In the a priori tests, we use high-resolution reference data of stationary, homogeneous, isotropic MHD turbulence to compare exact SGS quantities against predictions by the closures. The comparison includes, for example, correlations of turbulent fluxes, the average dissipative behavior, and alignment of SGS vectors such as the EMF. In order to quantify the performance of the new nonlinear closure, this comparison is conducted from the subsonic (sonic Mach number M s ≈ 0.2) to the highly supersonic (M s ≈ 20) regime, and against other SGS closures. The latter include established closures of eddy-viscosity and scale-similarity type. In all tests and over the entire parameter space, we find that the proposed closures are (significantly) closer to the reference data than the other closures. In the a posteriori tests, we perform large eddy simulations of decaying, supersonic MHD turbulence with initial M s ≈ 3. We implemented closures of all types, i.e. of eddy-viscosity, scale-similarity and nonlinear type, as an SGS model and evaluated their performance in comparison to simulations without a model (and at higher resolution). We find that the models need to be calculated on a scale larger than the grid scale, e.g. by an explicit filter, to have an influence on the dynamics at all. Furthermore, we show that only the proposed nonlinear closure improves higher-order statistics.de
dc.contributor.coRefereeBodenschatz, Eberhard Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.thirdRefereeBrüggen, Marcus Prof. Dr.
dc.subject.engLESde
dc.subject.engeddyde
dc.subject.engsimulationde
dc.subject.engturbulencede
dc.subject.engMHDde
dc.subject.engmagnetohydrodynamicsde
dc.subject.engmodelingde
dc.subject.engnumericalde
dc.subject.enga prioride
dc.subject.enga posterioride
dc.subject.engsubgrid-scalede
dc.subject.engSGSde
dc.subject.engfilteringde
dc.subject.engnonlinearde
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-002B-7D3F-F-3
dc.affiliation.instituteFakultät für Physikde
dc.identifier.ppn880002018


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