Direct Monte Carlo simulations of accretion discs
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We apply the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, developed originally to calculate rarefied gas dynamical problems, to study the gas flow in an accretion disc in a close binary system. The method involves viscosity and thermal conduction automatically, and can thus simulate turbulent viscosity (alpha viscosity).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0110199,
title = {Direct Monte Carlo simulations of accretion discs},
author = {Takuya Matsuda and Hiromi Mizutani and Henri M. J. Boffin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0110199},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, 2 figures. To be published in "The Physics of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects", ASP Conf. Ser., eds. B. T. Gansicke, K. Beuermann, & K. Reinsch