Franco Vazza

	Franco Vazza	I just moved to in Bremen (DE)
	Home page for turbulent and shocking thoughts

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

SHOCKS & COSMIC RAYS ACCELERATION with ENZO	TURBULENCE IN THE INTRA CLUSTER MEDIUM with Gadget ; with ENZO
TRACERS IN THE ICM with ENZO	COMPARISON OF COSMOLOGICAL NUMERICAL CODES with ENZO, TVD , Gadget
`KEY PROJECT 2009 ON MASSIVE GALAXY CLUSTERS` with ENZO

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IMAGES

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(performed with VISIVO)

PUBLICATIONS

Master Degree Thesis (2004) (download 6.46 Mb postcript file)

Phd Thesis (2009)(download 20 Mb pdf file)

CURRICULUM VITAE

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1.    Turbulent gas motions in galaxy cluster simulations: the role of smoothed particle hydrodynamics viscosity
    (Dolag, K.; Vazza, F.; Tormen, G.; Brunetti, G ; 2005MNRAS.364..753D)
2.    Turbulent velocity fields in smoothed particle hydrodymanics simulated galaxy clusters: scaling laws for the turbulent energy
    (Vazza, F.; Tormen, G.; Cassano, R.; Brunetti, G.; Dolag, K. - 2006MNRAS.369L..14V )
3.    Cosmological Shocks in Eulerian Simulations: Main Properties and Cosmic Rays Acceleration
    (Vazza F., Brunetti G., Gheller C,  2009MSAIS..13..151V)
4.    Shocks Waves in Eulerian Cosmological Simulations: Main Properties and Cosmic Rays Acceleration
    (Vazza, F.; Brunetti, G. & Gheller, C. - 2009MNRAS.395.1333V)
5.    Turbulent Motions and Shocks Waves in Galaxy Clusters simulated with AMR
    (Vazza, F.; Brunetti, G.; Kritsuk, A.; Wagner, R.; Gheller, C.; . Norman, M - 2009A&A...504...33V HIGHLIGHT OF A&A Sept.09, vol.II)
6.    The Mixing and Transport Properties of the Simulated ICM: a Study with Tracers
    (Vazza, F. ; Gheller, C.; Brunetti G.   - 2010A&A...513A..32V )

7.    Massive and Refined: a sample of large galaxy clusters simulated at high resolution. I:Thermal gas and shock waves properties
    (Vazza, F.; Brunetti, G.; Gheller, C.; Brunino, R. - 2010NewA...15..695V - New Astronomy)
8.     The entropy core in galaxy clusters: numerical and physical effects in cosmological grid simulations
   (Vazza, F. - 2010arXiv1008.0191V - MNRAS in press.)

TURBULENCE in the INTRA CLUSTER MEDIUM
Standard velocity dispersion vs local velocity dispersion (Gadget)	Temperature, Mach number & turbulence in ENZO AMR
the new Adaptive Mesh Refinment technique (ENZO)	The evolution of the kinetic energy spectrum (ENZO)

SHOCKS with ENZO
Shocks captured by the algorithm	Mach number distribution
Evolution of Mach number distribution in ENZO AMR	3-Dimensional rendering (performed with VISIVO)