Franco Vazza
Home page of turbulent thoughts

 
 

RESEARCH TOPICS

- Search & study of turbulent pattern of motions, in simulated galaxy clusters.
(in collaboration with Bepi Tormen, Gianfranco Brunetti, Klaus Dolag, Rossella Cassano)

- Search & characterisation of cosmological shocks in simulated galaxy clusters.
(in collaboration with Gianfranco Brunetti & Claudio Gheller)

 
 

QUICK OVERVIEW BY IMAGES
(under construction) 

TURBULENCE in the INTRA CLUSTER MEDIUM

Standard velocity dispersion vs local velocity dispersion

The detection method at work

final turbulent pattern of motion

Injection of turbulent instabilities

turbulence with different viscosity scheme

Power spectra of velocity fields

The D-Tornado

a simulated radio-halo

 
 
SHOCKS FROM EULERIAN SIMULATIONS

Shocks captured by the algorithm

Mach number distribution

 

PUBLICATIONS

- Laurea Thesis (2004)
(download 6.46 Mb postcript file)

- Turbulent gas motions in galaxy cluster simulations: The role of SPH viscosity.
(Dolag, Vazza, Brunetti, Tormen -
2005astro.ph..7480D)


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)


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