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Realization of the stationary integral solutions of steady state transonic accretion flow in spherical symmetry helps to understand accretion phenomena on various astrophysical objects. In recent years, attempts have been made to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 Souvik Ghose , Tapas K. Das

Theoretical studies of transonic accretion onto black holes reveal a wide range of possible solutions, broadly classified into smooth flows and flows featuring shocks. Accretion solutions that involve the formation of shocks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Raj Kishor Joshi , Antonios Tsokaros , Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Ramiz Aktar

Fractons are exotic quasiparticles whose mobility in space is restricted by symmetries. In potential real-world realisations, fractons are likely lodged to a physical material rather than absolute space. Motivated by this, we propose and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Akash Jain

Rheological properties of dense flows of hard particles are singular as one approaches the jamming threshold where flow ceases, both for aerial granular flows dominated by inertia, and for over-damped suspensions. Concomitantly, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 E. DeGiuli , G. Düring , E. Lerner , M. Wyart

Collisionless suspensions of inertial particles (finite-size impurities) are studied in 2D and 3D spatially smooth flows. Tools borrowed from the study of random dynamical systems are used to identify and to characterise in full generality…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremie Bec

Numerical, two-dimensional, time-dependent hydrodynamical models of geometrically thick accretion discs around black holes are presented. Accretion flows with non-effective radiation cooling (ADAFs) can be both convectively stable or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Igor V. Igumenshchev

Non-Newtonian fluid flow might be driven by spatially nonlocal velocity, the dynamics of which can be described by promising fractional derivative models. This short communication proposes a space FrActional-order Constitutive Equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-13 HongGuang Sun , Yong Zhang , Song Wei , Jianting Zhu

Protoplanetary "transition" disks have large, mass-depleted central cavities, yet also deliver gas onto their host stars at rates comparable to disks without holes. The paradox of simultaneous transparency and accretion can be explained if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Katherine A. Rosenfeld , Eugene Chiang , Sean M. Andrews

It is quite likely that self-gravity will play an important role in the evolution of accretion discs, in particular those around young stars, and those around supermassive black holes. We summarise, here, our current understanding of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Ken Rice

Fractal interpolation technique is an alternative to the classical interpolation methods especially when a chaotic signal is involved. The logic behind the formulation of an iterated function system for the construction of fractal…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Aparna MP , P. Paramanathan

Accretion disk instabilities are briefly reviewed. Some details are given to the short-wavelength thermal instabilities and the convective instabilities. Time-dependent calculations of two-dimensional advection-dominated accretion flows are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xingming Chen

We reveal the fractal nature of patterns arising in random sequential adsorption of particles with continuum power-law size distribution, $P(R)\sim R^{\alpha-1}$, $R \le R_{\rm max}$. We find that the patterns become more and more ordered…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. V. Brilliantov , Yu. A. Andrienko , P. L. Krapivsky , J. Kurths

Dipole-conserving fluids serve as examples of kinematically constrained systems that can be understood on the basis of symmetry. They are known to display various exotic features including glassylike dynamics, subdiffusive transport, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-18 Aleksander Głódkowski , Francisco Peña-Benítez , Piotr Surówka

We consider an optical diffraction grating in which the spatial distribution of open slits forms a fractal set. The Fraunhofer diffraction patterns through the fractal grating are obtained analytically for the simplest triad Cantor type and…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dongsu Bak , Sang Pyo Kim , Sung Ku Kim , Kwang-Sup Soh , Jae Hyung Yee

Crack propagation is studied numerically using a continuum phase-field approach to mode III brittle fracture. The results shed light on the physics that controls the speed of accelerating cracks and the characteristic branching instability…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Alain Karma , Alexander E. Lobkovsky

We investigate the influence of fractal structure on material properties. We calculate the statistical correlation functions of fractal media defined by level-cut Gaussian random fields. This allows the modeling of both surface fractal and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Anthony Roberts , Mark Knackstedt

This paper introduces the concept of Fractal Frenet equations, a set of differential equations used to describe the behavior of vectors along fractal curves. The study explores the analogue of arc length for fractal curves, providing a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Alireza Khalili Golmankhaneh , Palle E. T. Jørgensen , Dimiter Prodanov

The construction of fractal generalized zone plates (FraGZPs) from a set of periodic diffractive optical elements with circular symmetry is proposed. This allows us to increase the number of foci of a conventional fractal zone plate…

We investigate the dynamics of passive particles in a two-dimensional incompressible open flow composed of a fixed topographical point vortex and a background current with a periodic component. The tracer dynamics is found to be typically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-10 M. Budyansky , M. Uleysky , S. Prants

Fracton topological phases host fractionalized excitations that are either completely immobile or only mobile along certain lines or planes. We demonstrate how such phases can be understood in terms of two fundamentally different types of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Timothy H. Hsieh , Gábor B. Halász