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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS


TURBULENCE IN THE
INTRA CLUSTER MEDIUM

with Gadget  with ENZO






MOVIES -->


IMAGES

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
map of shocks 
Shocks captured by the algorithm
mach distribution
Mach number distribution      

Evolution of Mach number distribution in ENZO AMR


3-Dimensional rendering
(performed with VISIVO)



PUBLICATIONS

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

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


CURRICULUM VITAE


REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES

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, M2009A&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.)


Press Releases in Other Media

News on Highlight of A&A (Sept II 2009) 

Urania News about "A galactic calculation" (in Italian)

Inaf News about Key Project 2009     (in Italian)



HAPPY (AND HONOURED) OF COLLABORATING WITH:

Bepi Tormen   - University of Padova
Klaus Dolag - MPA (Munchen)
Gianfranco Brunetti - IRA - INAF (Bologna)
Rossella Cassano - University of Bologna
Claudio Gheller - CINECA (Bologna)
Riccardo Brunino - CINECA (Bologna)
Dongsu Ryu - Chungam National University (Daejon-S.COREA)
M.Norman - UCSD (San Diego,US)
R.Wagner - UCSD (San Diego,US)
A.Kritsuk -UCSD (San Diego,US)
M.Brűggen + JACOBS Univ. (Bremen - Germany)


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