High Mach-number Bondi--Hoyle--Lyttleton flow around a small accretor
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss a two-dimensional numerical study of isothermal high Mach number Bondi--Hoyle--Lyttleton flow around a small accretor. The flow is found to be unstable at high Mach numbers, with the instability appearing even for a larger accretor. The instability appears to be the unstable radial mode of the accretion column predicted by earlier analytic work.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0501070,
title = {High Mach-number Bondi--Hoyle--Lyttleton flow around a small accretor},
author = {Richard Edgar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0501070},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Five pages, nine figures Accepted by A&A