Thermal conduction in a tangled magnetic field

被引:155
作者
Chandran, BDG [1 ]
Cowley, SC [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3077
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The suppression of thermal conduction by a static stochastic magnetic field is calculated for different ratios of the field scale length to the collisional mean free path. The effects of magnetic trapping an determined through a two-scale analysis acid Monte Carlo particle simulations. In galaxy-cluster cooling flows, thermal conductivity is reduced from the Spitzer value by a factor of order 10(2) to 10(3).
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页码:3077 / 3080
页数:4
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