Thomas Berlok

I finished my PhD in October 2017 (thesis can be downloaded here) and now work in the research section Cosmology and Large-scale Structure at the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) which is lead by Christoph Pfrommer.

Publications

My publications can be found on ADS or via the links below:

Suppressed heat conductivity

Berlok, Quataert, Pessah & Pfrommer, submitted to MNRAS
Suppressed heat conductivity in the intracluster medium: implications for the magneto-thermal instability

Braginskii viscosity in Arepo

Berlok, Pakmor & Pfrommer, 2019, MNRAS, stz3115
Braginskii viscosity on an unstructured, moving mesh accelerated with super-time-stepping

Magnetized Cold Streams

Berlok & Pfrommer, 2019, MNRAS, stz2347
The impact of magnetic fields on cold streams feeding galaxies
Watch animations of figure 4 & 5.

The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

Berlok & Pfrommer, 2019, MNRAS, 485, 908
On the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability with smooth initial conditions - Linear theory and simulations.
Psecas can be downloaded on Github.

PhD thesis 2017

Title: Weakly Collisional and Collisionless Astrophysical Plasmas
Supervisors: Martin E. Pessah, Troels Haugboelle and Tobias Heinemann.
Watch an animation of a simulation of the firehose instability.

Quasi-global simulations of the ICM

Berlok & Pessah, 2016, ApJ, 833, 2.
On Helium Mixing in Quasi-global Simulations of the Intracluster Medium.
Watch animation of figure 5.

Local simulations of the ICM

Berlok & Pessah, 2016, ApJ, 824, 32.
Local Simulations of Instabilities Driven by Composition Gradients in the ICM.
Watch animation of figure 7.

Stability analysis of the ICM

Berlok & Pessah, 2015, ApJ, 813, 22.
Plasma Instabilities in the Context of Current Helium Sedimentation Models:
Dynamical Implications for the ICM in Galaxy Clusters.