Accretion Disks Phase Transitions: 2-D or not 2-D?
Astrophysics
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
We argue that the proper way to treat thin-thick accretion-disk transitions should take into account the 2-D nature of the problem. We illustrate the physical inconsistency of the 1-D vertically integrated approach by discussing a particular example of the convective transport of energy.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0004106,
title = {Accretion Disks Phase Transitions: 2-D or not 2-D?},
author = {Marek A. Abramowicz and Gunnlaugur Bjornsson and Igor V. Igumenshchev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0004106},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures