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Resolution dependence of magnetorotational turbulence in the isothermal stratified shearing box

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Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability can provide diffusive transport of angular momentum in astrophysical disks, and a widely studied computational model for this process is the ideal, stratified, isothermal shearing box. Here we report results of a convergence study of such boxes up to a resolution of N = 256 zones per scale height, performed on blue waters at NCSA with ramses-gpu. We find that the time and vertically integrated dimensionless shear stress $\overline{\alpha }\sim {N}^{-1/3}$, i.e., the shear stress is resolution dependent. We also find that the magnetic field correlation length decreases with resolution, $\lambda \sim {N}^{-1/2}$. This variation is strongest at the disk midplane. We show that our measurements of $\overline{\alpha }$ are consistent with earlier studies, and we discuss possible reasons for the lack of convergence.
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hal-01554387 , version 1 (11-01-2023)

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Benjamin R. Ryan, Charles F. Gammie, Sebastien Fromang, Pierre Kestener. Resolution dependence of magnetorotational turbulence in the isothermal stratified shearing box. Astrophys.J., 2017, 840 (1), pp.6. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/aa6a52⟩. ⟨hal-01554387⟩
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