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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 375, Issue 1, Pages 15-28Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11300.x
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hydrodynamics; galaxies : active; galaxies : clusters : general; cooling flows; galaxies : jets
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Using a series of three-dimensional, hydrodynamic simulations on an adaptive grid, we have performed a systematic study on the effect of bubble-induced motions on metallicity profiles in clusters of galaxies. In particular, we have studied the dependence on the bubble size and position, the recurrence times of the bubbles, the way these bubbles are inflated and the underlying cluster profile. We find that in hydrostatic cluster models, the resulting metal distribution is very elongated along the direction of the bubbles. Anisotropies in the cluster or ambient motions are needed if the metal distribution is to be spherical. In order to parametrize the metal transport by bubbles, we compute effective diffusion coefficients. The diffusion coefficients inferred from our simple experiments lie at values of around similar to 10(29) cm(2) s(-1) at a radius of 10 kpc. The runs modelled on the Perseus cluster yield diffusion coefficients that agree very well with those inferred from observations.
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