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We investigate the analogy between circumstellar disks and the Taylor-Couette flow. Using the Reynolds similarity principle, the analogy results in a number of parameter-free predictions about stability of the disks, and their turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Hersant , B. Dubrulle , J. -M. Hure

A systematic study of the influence of the viscous effect on both the spectra and the nonlinear fluxes of conserved as well as non conserved quantities in Navier-Stokes turbulence is proposed. This analysis is used to estimate the helicity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Lessinnes , F. Plunian , R. Stepanov , D. Carati

The discontinuity of the vorticity is written as a function of the vector T grad s, (where T is the temperature and s the specific entropy). The expression is obtained thanks to potential equations and independently of the mass conservation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Henri Gouin

Activity of the nuclei of galaxies and stellar mass systems involving disk accretion to black holes is thought to be due to (1) a small-scale turbulent magnetic field in the disk (due to the magneto-rotational instability or MRI) which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 R. V. E. Lovelace , D. M. Rothstein , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Turbulent viscosity is frequently used in accretion disk theory to replace the microphysical viscosity in order to accomodate the observational need for in- stabilities in disks that lead to enhanced transport. However, simply replacing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexander Hubbard , Eric G. Blackman

The equations of electrostatic drift kinetics are observed to possess a symmetry associated with their intrinsic scale invariance. Under the assumptions of spatial periodicity, stationarity, and locality, this symmetry implies a particular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 T. Adkins , P. G. Ivanov , A. A. Schekochihin

Accretion disks around black holes in which the shear stress is proportional to the total pressure, the accretion rate is more than a small fraction of Eddington, and the matter is distributed smoothly are both thermally and viscously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. H. Krolik

We provide a 2.5-dimensional solution to a complete set of viscous hydrodynamical equations describing accretion-induced outflow and then plausible jet around black holes/compact objects. We prescribe a self-consistent advective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The mechanism of turbulent viscosity is the central question in investigations of turbulence. This is also the case in the accretion disk theory, where turbulence is considered to be responsible for the outward transport of angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-26 Alexander A. Panferov

The stationary hydrodynamic equations for transonic viscous accretion discs in Kerr geometry are derived. The consistent formulation is given for the viscous angular momentum transport and the boundary conditions on the horizon of a central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jochen Peitz , Stefan Appl

We investigate the radial transport of magnetic flux in a thin accretion disc, the turbulence being modelled by effective diffusion coefficients (viscosity and resistivity). Both turbulent diffusion and advection by the accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jerome Guilet , Gordon I. Ogilvie

By taking into account the local energy balance per unit volume between the viscous heating and the advective cooling plus the radiative cooling, we investigate the vertical structure of radiation pressure-supported accretion disks in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-31 Wei-Min Gu

We have analyzed pair production in the innermost region of a two-temperature external soft photon comptonized accretion disk. We have shown that, if the viscosity parameter is greater than a temperature and r dependent critical value, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Cesar Meirelles Filho

Hydromagnetic stresses in accretion discs have been the subject of intense theoretical research over the past one and a half decades. Most of the disc simulations have assumed a small initial magnetic field and studied the turbulence that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders Johansen , Yuri Levin

We examine the role played by viscosity in the excitation of global oscillation modes (both axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric) in accretion discs around black holes using two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. The turbulent viscosity is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-14 Ryan Miranda , Jiri Horak , Dong Lai

The phenomenon of drag reduction by polymer additives had been studied in simulations on the basis of non-Newtonian fluid mechanical models that take into account the field of polymer extension (conformation tensor) and its interaction with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Benzi , Emily S. C. Ching , Itamar Procaccia

We consider observational and theoretical estimates of the accretion disc viscosity parameter $\alpha$. We find that in thin, fully-ionized discs, the best observational evidence suggests a typical range $\alpha \sim 0.1 - 0.4$, whereas the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. R. King , J. E. Pringle , M. Livio

We explore the properties of cold gravitoturbulent accretion disks - non-fragmenting disks hovering on the verge of gravitational instability - using a realistic prescription for the effective viscosity caused by gravitational torques. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Roman R. Rafikov

We present various instability mechanisms in the accreting black hole systems which might indicate at the connection between the accretion disk and jet. The jets observed in microquasars can have a persistent or blobby morphology.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Monika Moscibrodzka , Aneta Siemiginowska

Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasar spectra taken at multiple epochs, we find that the composite flux density differences in the rest frame wavelength range 1300-6000 AA can be fit by a standard thermal accretion disk model where…