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We investigate the growth or decay rate of the fundamental mode of even symmetry in a viscous accretion disc. This mode occurs in eccentric discs and is known to be potentially overstable. We determine the vertical structure of the disc and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Henrik N. Latter , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We show that the standard model for geometrically thin accretion disks (alpha-disks) leads to inconsistencies if selfgravity plays a role. This problem arises from the parametrization of viscosity in terms of local sound velocity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. Duschl , Peter A. Strittmatter , Peter L. Biermann

The model of a geometrically thin gaseous disk in the external gravitational potential is considered. The dinamics of small nonaxisymmetric perturbations in the plane of the accretion disk with dissipative effects is investigated. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. V. Khoperskov , S. S. Khrapov

We estimate a value of the viscosity parameter in AGN accretion discs for the PG quasar sample. We assume that optical variability on time-scales of months to years is caused by local instabilities in the inner accretion disc. Comparing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rhaana L. C. Starling , Aneta Siemiginowska , Phil Uttley , Roberto Soria

Self-similar and semi-analytical solutions are found for the height-averaged equations govern the dynamical behavior of a polytropic, self-gravitating disk under the effects of winds, around the nascent object. In order to describe time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shahram Abbassi , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Mohsen Shadmehri

The origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in rotating shear flow is a long standing puzzle. Resolving it is especially important in astrophysics when the flow angular momentum profile is Keplerian which forms an accretion disk having negligible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Kanak Saha

The standard accretion discs are known to be thermally and viscously unstable over a certain range of temperatures. In the inner disc regions there may develop radiation pressure driven instability, which is possibly related to the rapid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny

The equilibrium state of a turbulent clumpy gas disk is analytically investigated. The disk consists of distinct self-gravitating clouds. Gravitational cloud-cloud interactions transfer energy over spatial scales and produce a viscosity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Vollmer , T. Beckert

In this short paper we show that making turbulence two- rather than three-dimensional may increase effective turbulent viscosity by about 40%. Dimensionless hydrodynamical viscosity parameter up to \alpha\_{max} = 0.25 M_t^2 may be obtained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Abolmasov , N. I. Shakura

The gravitational instabilities are important to the evolution of the disks and the planet formation in the disks. We calculate the evolution of the disks which form from the collapse of the molecular cloud cores. By changing the properties…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Ning Sui , Ping He , Min Li

Most black holes possess accretion disks. Models of such disks inform observations and constrain the properties of the black holes and their surrounding medium. Here, we study isothermal shocks in a thin black hole accretion flow. Modelling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Eric W. Hester , Geoffrey M. Vasil , Martin Wechselberger

This thesis investigates phenomena occurring in black-hole accretion discs which are likely to induce high-frequency quasi-periodic variability. Two classes of pseudo-relativistic theoretical models are studied. The first is based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-13 Barbara T. Ferreira

In this article, we proceed to study convection as a possible factor of episodic accretion in protoplanetary disks. Within the model presented in Article~I, the accretion history is analyzed at different rates and areas of matter inflow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 L. A. Maksimova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov

Accretion flows having low angular momentum and low viscosity can have standing shock waves. These shocks arise due to the presence of multiple sonic points in the flow. We study the region of the parameter space in which multiple sonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das

The hydrodynamic stability of accretion disks is considered. The particular question is whether the combined action of a (stable) vertical density stratification and a (stable) radial differential rotation gives rise to a new instability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 G. Rüdiger , R. Arlt , D. Shalybkov

We use well-established observational evidence to draw conclusions about the fundamental nature of the viscosity in accretion discs. To do this, we first summarise the observational evidence for the value of the dimensionless accretion disc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 R. G. Martin , C. J. Nixon , J. E. Pringle , M. Livio

The question of a purely hydrodynamic origin of turbulence in accretion disks is reexamined, on the basis of a large body of experimental and numerical evidence on various subcritical (i.e., linearly stable) hydrodynamic flows. One of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pierre-Yves Longaretti

The derivation of the viscosity formula of accretion disks appearing in a number of textbooks is based on a mean free path theory of gas particles. However, this procedure, when followed precisely, leads to the incorrect conclusion that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eiji Hayashi , Takuya Matsuda

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the evaporation of liquid disks in the presence of natural convection due to a density difference between the vapor and the surrounding gas. From the analogy between thermal convection above a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-17 Benjamin Dollet , François Boulogne

Modelling the flow in a thin accretion disc like a dynamical system, we analyse the nature of the critical points of the steady solutions of the flow. For the simple inviscid disc there are two critical points, with the outer one being a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnab K. Ray , J. K. Bhattacharjee