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Hydrodynamic simulations have been used to study accretion disks consisting of counterrotating components with an intervening shear layer(s). Configurations of this type can arise from the accretion of newly supplied counterrotating matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. A. Kuznetsov , R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , V. M. Chechetkin

We investigate the fragmentation criterion in massive self-gravitating discs. We present new analysis of the fragmentation conditions which we test by carrying out global three-dimensional numerical simulations. Whilst previous work has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Farzana Meru , Matthew R. Bate

We investigate the role of magnetic fields in the fragmentation of self-gravitating discs using 3D global ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations performed with the "phantom" smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. For initially toroidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Duncan Forgan , Daniel J. Price , Ian Bonnell

Simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique typically include numerical viscosity to model shocks and maintain particle order on the kernel scale. This numerical viscosity is composed of linear and quadratic terms,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Cheng Chen , C. J. Nixon

We review recent results of SPH simulations of gravitational instability in gaseous protoplanetary disks,emphasizing the role of thermodynamics in both isolated and binary systems. Contradictory results appeared in the literature regarding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-22 Lucio Mayer , Artur Gawryszczak

The 2D time dependent solution of thin accretion disk in a close binary system have been presented on the equatorial plane around the Schwarzschild black hole. To do that, the special part of the General Relativistic Hydrodynamical(GRH)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orhan Donmez

We describe similarity solutions that characterize the collapse of collisional gas onto scalefree perturbations in an Einstein-de Sitter universe. We consider the effects of radiative cooling and derive self-similar solutions under the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. G. Abadi , R. G. Bower , J. F. Navarro

Using 2D smoothed particle hydrodynamics, we investigate the distribution of wait times between strong shocks in a turbulent, self-gravitating accretion disc. We show the resulting distributions do not depend strongly on the cooling time or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Matthew D. Young , Cathie J. Clarke

Self-gravity becomes competitive as an angular momentum transport process in accretion discs at large radii, where the temperature is low enough that external irradiation likely contributes to the thermal balance. Irradiation is known to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 W. K. M. Rice , P. J. Armitage , G. R. Mamatsashvili , G. Lodato , C. J. Clarke

In this paper, we use high-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations to investigate the response of a marginally stable self-gravitating protostellar disc to a close parabolic encounter with a companion discless star. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Lodato , F. Meru , C. Clarke , W. K. M. Rice

Hydrodynamical interaction in circumbinary discs (CBDs) plays a crucial role in various astrophysical systems, ranging from young stellar binaries to supermassive black hole binaries in galactic centers. Most previous simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Hai-Yang Wang , Xue-Ning Bai , Dong Lai , Douglas N. C. Lin

Two-dimensional numerical simulations of an accretion flow in a close binary system are performed by solving the Euler equations with radiative transfer. In the present study, the specific heat ratio is assumed to be constant while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun'ichi Sato , Keisuke Sawada , Naofumi Ohnishi

In this paper we consider the effects of opacity regimes on the stability of self-gravitating protoplanetary discs to fragmentation into bound objects. Using a self-consistent 1-D viscous disc model, we show that the ratio of local cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Peter Cossins , Giuseppe Lodato , Cathie Clarke

Context. It is still an open issue whether a self-gravitating accretion disk fragments. There are many different physical and numerical explanations for fragmentation, but simulations often show a non-convergent behavior for ever better…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Jannes Klee , Tobias F. Illenseer , Manuel Jung , Wolfgang J. Duschl

We study the impact of numerical parameters on the properties of cold dark matter haloes formed in collisionless cosmological simulations. We quantify convergence in the median spherically-averaged circular velocity profiles for haloes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 Aaron D. Ludlow , Joop Schaye , Richard Bower

Self-gravitating discs are believed to play an important role in astrophysics in particular regarding the star and planet formation process. In this context, discs subject to an idealized cooling process, characterized by a cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-20 Noé Brucy , Patrick Hennebelle

We discuss some 3D numerical simulations of accretion discs using the SPH method and a polytropic equation of state. We show that discs exist even for as large value of the polytropic index as 1.2, and that these discs are always in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henri M. J. Boffin , Kei Haraguchi , Takuya Matsuda

Fragmentation of protoplanetary disks due to gravitational instabilities is a candidate of a formation mechanism of binary stars, brown dwarfs, and gaseous giant planets. The condition for the fragmentation has been thought that the disk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 Sanemichi Z. Takahashi , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

It is believed that protostellar accretion disks to be formed from nearly ballistic infall of the molecular matters in rotating core collapse. Collisions of these infalling matters lead to formation of strong supersonic shocks, which if…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Mohsen Nejad-Asghar

We have performed Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations to study the time evolution of one and two protoplanets embedded in a protoplanetary accretion disc. We investigate accretion and migration rates of a single protoplanet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Schaefer , R. Speith , M. Hipp , W. Kley