Adaptively Refined Large-Eddy Simulations of Galaxy Clusters

Appendix G Hydrostatic equilibrium

G.1 Standard derivation

The equations of hydrostatic equilibrium can be obtained from the equations of fluid dynamics (2.1)-(2.3) assuming vi=06161Actually this assumption is a little bit to stringent. For a spherical symmetric system it is enough, that the average radial component of velocity vr=0.. This yields

tρ =0, (G.1)
pri =ρgi. (G.2)

The gravitational force for a sphere with a mass profile M(r) is

gi=-Φri=-GM(r)r2, (G.3)

so the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium for such a configuration is

1ρpr =-GM(r)r2. (G.4)

Substituting the ideal gas equation p=ρRsT on the left hand side leads to

1ρpr=Rsρ(ρTr+Tρr)=RsT(1TTr+1ρρr)=RsT(lnTr+lnρr). (G.5)

Plugging the last result into the equation for hydrostatic equilibrium (G.4), and solving for M(r) gives an useful form of the hydrostatic equilibrium equation

M(r) =-RsTrG(rlnTr+rlnρr)=-RsTrG(lnTlnr+lnρlnr). (G.6)

G.2 Derivation including turbulent pressure

If we add a turbulent pressure pt to the ideal gas equation we get for the total pressure

p=pth+pt(l)=ρRsT+13ρq2(l). (G.7)

If we substitute this into the equation for hydrostatic equilibrium (G.4), we get an additional term due to the turbulent pressure

pt(l)r=13ρq2(l)(lnq2(l)r+lnρr). (G.8)

Therefore the total gravitational mass within the radius r assuming hydrostatic equilibrium including a turbulent pressure associated with a length scale l is

M(r,l) =-rG[RsTg(lnTglnr+lnρglnr)+q2(l)3(lnq2(l)lnr+lnρlnr)]. (G.9)