Fig. 1

Characteristic amplitude ()
of δρ/ρ (red)
and v/cs
(blue) after reaching a statistical steady state (~ 2 tturb)
with the same level of continuous stirring. From top left: models
with weak (M ~
0.25), mild (M ~ 0.5), and strong (M ~ 0.75) turbulence;
the last model (bottom right) has half the reference injection scale
(~600/2 kpc) using
M ~
0.25. From dark to bright line color, the level of conduction
increases by a factor of 10: f = 0 (hydro),
10-3, 10-2,
10-1, 1. The evolution is overall
self-similar by varying the strength of turbulence or the injection scale. Density
perturbations are an effective tracer of the velocity field, especially on large
scales, with normalization Av1D ≈ 1.3
Aρ (at
L ~ 600
kpc). On smaller scales, δρ/ρ displays
a cascade shallower than the Kolmogorov slope followed by velocities. Remarkably,
conduction strongly damps density perturbations but leaves the velocity cascade
unaltered, thus inverting the Av(k)
/Aρ(k)
ratio (Fig. 2).
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