17-21 Sep 2018 Lyon (France)
Cosmic ray physics in Ramses
Yohan Dubois  1@  
1 : Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris  (IAP)  -  Website
Université Pierre et Marie Curie [UPMC] - Paris VI, INSU, CNRS : UMR7095, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) - Paris VI
98bis, bd Arago - 75014 Paris France -  France

Cosmic rays (CRs) are now expected to play an important role for shaping the interstellar medium dynamics and chemistry, producing galactic wide outflows and providing non-thermal pressure support in large-scale structures. CRs can be treated as a pressure term in the equations of hydrodynamics with an extra equation evolving their energy. One important aspect of CR physics is that they diffuse anisotropically along magnetic field lines, and I will review the implementation from Dubois & Commerçon 16. Additionaly, CRs can stream down their own gradient along magnetic field lines and generate an instability heating the gas (the so-called "streaming instability") and are accelerated at shock interfaces. I will introduce these recent implementations in the Ramses code with the streaming instability modeled as a diffusion plus heating term, and how our shock finder algorithm can produce shock-accelerated CRs.



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