Dynamics of clumps within a magnetized advection dominated accretion flow is investigated by solving the collisionless Boltzmann equation and considering the drag force due to the relative velocity between the clumps and the gas. Toroidal component of the magnetic field is assumed to be dominant. Dynamical properties of the hot gaseous component such as the radial and the rotational velocities are affected by the magnetic effects, and so, drag force varies depending on the strength of magnetic field and the velocity dispersion of the clumps is then modified significantly. We show that when magnetic pressure is less than the gas pressure, the root of the averaged radial velocity square of the clumps decreases at the inner parts of the hot flow and increases slightly at its outer edge.
We investigate effects of a global magnetic field on the dynamics of an ensemble of clumps within a magnetized advection-dominated accretion flow by neglecting interactions between the clumps and then solving the collisionless Boltzman equation. In the strongcoupling limit, in which the averaged radial and the rotational velocities of the clumps follow the ADAF dynamics, the averaged radial velocity square of the clumps is calculated analytically for different magnetic field configurations. The value of the averaged radial velocity square of the clumps increases with increasing the strength of the radial or vertical components of the magnetic field. But a purely toroidal magnetic field geometry leads to a reduction of the value of the averaged radial velocity square of the clumps at the inner parts with increasing the strength of this component. Moreover, dynamics of the clumps strongly depends on the amount of the advected energy so that the value of the averaged radial velocity square of the clumps increases in the presence of a global magnetic field as the flow becomes more advective.
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