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We present a novel hyperviscosity formulation for stabilizing RBF-FD discretizations of the advection-diffusion equation. The amount of hyperviscosity is determined quasi-analytically for commonly-used explicit, implicit, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Varun Shankar , Aaron L. Fogelson

Accretion disks are three-dimensional, turbulent, often self-gravitating, magnetohydrodynamic flows, which can be modeled in detail with numerical simulations. In this paper, we present a new algorithm that is based on a spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

Observations of the hot gas surrounding Sgr A* and a few other nearby galactic nuclei imply electron and proton mean free paths comparable to the gas capture radius: hot accretion likely proceeds under weakly-collisional conditions in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristen Menou

The ad-atom dynamic equation, a Langevin type equation is analyzed and solved using some non-linear analytical and numerical tools. We noticeably show that the effect of the surface acoustic wave is to induce an effective potential that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-14 Nicolas Combe , C. Taillan , J. Morillo

The $\alpha$ turbulent viscosity formalism for accretion discs must be interpreted as a mean field theory. The extent to which the disc scale exceeds that of the turbulence determines the precision of the predicted luminosity $L_\nu$. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric G. Blackman

Explicit numerical finite difference schemes for partial differential equations are well known to be easy to implement but they are particularly problematic for solving equations whose solutions admit shocks, blowups and discontinuities.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Christopher. N. Angstmann , Bruce I. Henry , Byron A. Jacobs , Anna V. McGann

We develop a mathematical model for adsorption based on averaging the flow around, and diffusion inside, adsorbent particles in a column. The model involves three coupled partial differential equations for the contaminant concentration both…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-20 Lucy C. Auton , Maria Aguareles , Abel Valverde , Timothy G. Myers , Marc Calvo-Schwarzwalder

Artificial viscosity is traditionally interpreted as a positive, spatially acting regularization introduced to stabilize numerical discretizations of hyperbolic conservation laws. In this work, we report a data-driven discovery that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Arun Govind Neelan

Analytical studies of black hole accretion usually presumes the stability of the stationary transonic configuration. Various authors in the past several decades demonstrated the validity of such an assumption for inviscid hydrodynamic flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Deepika B. Ananda , Soumini Chaudhury , Tapas K. Das , Ishita Maity , Sankhasubhra Nag

Two-temperature advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF) or hot ion tori (HIT) models help explain low luminosity stellar and galactic accreting sources and may complement observational support for black holes in nature. But low radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric G. Blackman

Differentially rotating, "advection-dominated" accretion flows are considered in which the heat generated by viscous dissipation is retained in the fluid. The equations of time-dependent quasi-spherical accretion are solved in a simplified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. I. Ogilvie

In this paper, we formulated the non-steady flow due to the uniformly accelerated and rotating circular cylinder from rest in a stationary, viscous, incompressible and micropolar fluid. This flow problem is examined numerically by adopting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-25 Abuzar Abid Siddiqui

The paper is concerned with an adjoint complement to the Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for immiscible two-phase flows, e.g. air and water, which is widely used in marine engineering due to its computational efficiency. The particular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Niklas Kühl , Jörn Kröger , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

Anomalous diffusion is a common phenomenon observed in underground solute transport, soil water infiltration and sediment movement, etc. Time and space fractional derivative advection-dispersion equation (FADE) has been widely employed as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-07 HongGuang Sun , Xiaoting Liu , Yong Zhang , Guofei Pang , Rhiannon Garrard

Field-channelled accretion flows occur in a variety of astrophysical objects, including T Tauri stars,magnetic cataclysmic variables and X-ray pulsars. We consider a curvilinear coordinate system and derive a general hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joao B. G. Canalle , Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu , Mark Cropper , Gavin Ramsay

The standard equilibrium for radiation-dominated accretion disks has long been known to be viscously, thermally, and convectively unstable, but the nonlinear development of these instabilities---hence the actual state of such disks---has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eric Agol , Julian Krolik , Neal Turner , James Stone

The boundary conditions prescribing the constant traction or the so-called do-nothing conditions are frequently taken on artificial boundaries in the numerical simulations of steady flow of incompressible fluids, despite the fact that they…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-25 M. Lanzendörfer , J. Hron

Radiatively inefficient (or advection dominated) disks are discussed at an introductory level. Ion supported and radiation supported flows are discussed, the different consequences of advection dominated flows onto black holes vs. solid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. C. Spruit

We analyze a space-time hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method to solve the time-dependent advection-diffusion equation on deforming domains. We prove stability of the discretization in the advection-dominated regime by using weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Yuan Wang , Sander Rhebergen

We discuss steady-state transonic outflows obtained by direct numerical solution of the hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic equations. We make use of the Versatile Advection Code, a software package for solving systems of (hyperbolic)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed