4th CRISM conference

Cosmic Rays and the InterStellar Medium

25 - 29 June 2018
Grenoble (France)

Implementation of a sub-grid cosmic rays diffusion coefficient and resonnant Alfven waves drift velocity term in the RAMSES code
Loann Brahimi  1@  , Benoit Commercon  2, *@  , Yohan Dubois  3, *@  , Alexandre Marcowith  1, *@  
1 : Laboratoire Univers et particules de Montpellier  (LUPM)
CNRS : UMR5299
LUPM - UMR5299 Université de Montpellier - Campus Triolet Place Eugène Bataillon - CC 72 34095 Montpellier Cédex 05 FRANCE -  France
2 : Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon  (CRAL)
CNRS : UMR5574
Bureau : site Monod, bâtiment M7, niveau MON_M7_R+1, porte M7 124 Tel. : 04.72.72.89.17 Fax : 04.72.72.88.97 Tel. secretariat : 0472728700 -  France
3 : Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris  (IAP)
CNRS : UMR7095
UMR7095 - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris - 98 bis boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris - Tél. 33 (1) 44 32 80 00 - Fax 33 (1) 44 32 80 01 -  France
* : Corresponding author

Cosmic Rays (CRs) transport is linked to the turbulent dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM). An implicit scheme for solving the anisotropic diffusion of CRs in the RAMSES code have been developped by Dubois & Commerçon (2015). The CRs diffusion coefficient they use is initially constant throughout the simulation volume and evolves according to the turbulent properties of the gas (Lazarian 2016) throughout the simulation.

A lot of studies showed that the turbulence generated by CRs has a non-negligible role on their dynamics and that of the ISM (Nava et al. 2016, Lucek & Bell 1999). It results in a spatial CRs diffusion coefficient which depends on the CRs and plasma properties. To answer this problem, we implemented a routine correcting the CRs diffusion coefficient value by considering the sub-resolution turbulent motions.

In addition, the Alfven waves velocity is different from the sound velocity of the gas which means that the energy tranfert rates between CRs and waves is roughly evaluated. To correct it, we need to consider a streaming velocity term which takes in account the real resonnant Alfven waves velocity and their propagation direction along the magnetic field (Pfrommer et al. 2016). Implicit and explicit implementations are discussed.


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