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Fractals are geometric shapes that can display complex and self-similar patterns found in nature (e.g., clouds and plants). Recent works in visual recognition have leveraged this property to create random fractal images for model…

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Multifractal properties of a tracer density passively advected by a compressible random velocity field are characterized. A relationship is established between the statistical properties of mass on the dynamical fractal attractor towards…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremie Bec , Krzysztof Gawedzki , Peter Horvai

Using mathematical formalism borrowed from dynamical systems theory, a complete analytical investigation of the critical behaviour of the stationary flow configuration for the low angular momentum axisymmetric black hole accretion provides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Nag , S. Acharya , A. K. Ray , Tapas K. Das

The structure of the inner edge of the accretion disk around a black hole can be altered, if the matter inside the marginally stable orbit is magnetically connected to the disk. In this case, a non-zero torque is exerted on its inner edge,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xinwu Cao , Y. D. Xu

We report a new type of restoration of macroscopic isotropy (homogenization) in fractals with microscopic anisotropy. The phenomenon is observed in various physical setups, including diffusions, random walks, resistor networks, and Gaussian…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-28 Martin T. Barlow , Kumiko Hattori , Tetsuya Hattori , Hiroshi Watanabe

This paper reviews some aspects of one of the major unsolved problems in understanding astrophysical (in particular, accretion) disks: whether the disk interiors may be effectively viscous in spite of the absence of marnetorotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-31 Dmitry N. Razdoburdin , Viacheslav V. Zhuravlev

A method is proposed for generating compact fractal disordered media, by generalizing the random midpoint displacement algorithm. The obtained structures are invasive stochastic fractals, with the Hurst exponent varying as a continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-04 Christian Turk , Anna Carbone , Bernardino M. Chiaia

A self-consistent solution for a thin accretion disk with turbulent convection is presented. The disk viscosity and the convective flux are derived from a physical model for turbulence, and expressed in terms of the local physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Itzhak Goldman , Amri Wandel

We present the results of smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations investigating the evolution and fragmentation of filaments that are accreting from a turbulent medium. We show that the presence of turbulence, and the resulting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 S. D. Clarke , A. P. Whitworth , A. Duarte-Cabral , D. A. Hubber

The fractal distribution of charged particles is considered. An example of this distribution is the charged particles that are distributed over fractal. The fractional integrals are used to describe fractal distribution. These integrals are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 Vasily E. Tarasov

Radiative transfer in a relativistic accretion disk wind is examined under the plane-parallel approximation in the fully special relativistic treatment. For an equilibrium flow, where the flow speed and the source function are constant, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jun Fukue

The boundaries of central place models proved to be fractal lines, which compose fractal texture of central place networks. A textural fractal can be employed to explain the scale-free property of regional boundaries such as border lines,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-12 Yanguang Chen

We study numerically the spatial properties of relaxation clusters in a two dimensional sandpile automaton with dynamic rules depending stochastically on a parameter p, which models the effects of static friction. In the limiting cases p=1…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Luebeck , K. D. Usadel , B. Tadic

Rapid fluctuation with a frequency dependence of $1/f^{\alpha}$ (with $\alpha \simeq 1 - 2$) is characteristic of radiation from black-hole objects. Its origin remains poorly understood. We examine the three-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kawaguchi , S. Mineshige , M. Machida , R. Matsumoto , K. Shibata

The vertical structure of stationary thin accretion discs is calculated from the energy balance equation with heat generation due to microscopic ion viscosity {\eta} and electron heat conductivity {\kappa}, both depending on temperature. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 K. L. Malanchev , K. A. Postnov , N. I. Shakura

We study the distribution of swimming micro-organisms advected by a model turbulent flow and attracted towards a localised light source through phototaxis. It is shown that particles aggregate along a dynamical attractor with fractal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Colin Torney , Zoltan Neufeld

The existence of outflow in accretion flows is confirmed by observations and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. In this paper, we study outflows of accretion flows in the presence of resistivity and toroidal magnetic field. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei , Azam Mollatayefeh

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-17 Sankhasubhra Nag , Deepika B Ananda , Ishita Maity , Tapas K. Das

Edges fractal approach in graphene e Defects density gain a b s t r a c t To optimize the technological development together with energy gain, the crucial materials needs to be tailored in a smart way to benefit a maximum from the…

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Some accreting neutron stars and young stars show unexplained episodic flares in the form of quasi-periodic oscillations or recurrent outbursts. In a series of two papers we present new work on an instability that can lead to episodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Caroline R. D'Angelo , Hendrik C. Spruit