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The effect of large magnetic Prandtl number $\text{Pm}$ (the ratio of viscosity to resistivity) on the turbulent transport and energetics of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) is poorly understood, despite the realization of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Loren E. Held , George Mamatsashvili

We present the results of local, vertically stratified, radiation MHD shearing box simulations of MRI turbulence appropriate for the hydrogen ionizing regime of dwarf nova and soft X-ray transient outbursts. We incorporate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-29 Shigenobu Hirose , Omer Blaes , Julian H. Krolik , Matthew S. B. Coleman , Takayoshi Sano

The local properties of turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in rotating, shearing flows are studied in the framework of a shearing-box model. Based on numerical simulations, we propose that the MRI-driven turbulence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 Justin Walker , Geoffroy Lesur , Stanislav Boldyrev

We carry out a series of local, vertically stratified shearing box simulations of protoplanetary disks that include ambipolar diffusion and a net vertical magnetic field. The ambipolar diffusion profiles we employ correspond to 30AU and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jacob B. Simon , Xue-Ning Bai , Philip J. Armitage , James M. Stone , Kris Beckwith

By performing local three-dimensional MHD simulations of stratified accretion disks, we investigate disk winds driven by MHD turbulence. Initially given weak vertical magnetic fields are effectively amplified by magnetorotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. K. Suzuki , S. Inutsuka

Cold steady-state disk wind theory from near Keplerian accretion disks requires a large scale magnetic field at near equipartition strength. However the minimum magnetization has never been tested. We investigate the time evolution of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Gareth C. Murphy , Jonathan Ferreira , Claudio Zanni

Detailed calculations of the physical structure of accretion disk boundary layers, and thus their inferred observational properties, rely on the assumption that angular momentum transport is opposite to the radial angular frequency gradient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-25 Martin E. Pessah , Chi-kwan Chan

Magnetorotational turbulence provides a viable mechanism for angular momentum transport in accretion disks. We present global, three dimensional (3D), MHD accretion disk simulations that investigate the dependence of the turbulent stresses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 E. R. Parkin , G. V. Bicknell

We numerically evolve turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a 3D, unstratified shearing box and study its structure using two-point correlation functions. We confirm Fromang and Papaloizou's result that shearing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Xiaoyue Guan , Charles F. Gammie , Jacob B. Simon , Bryan M. Johnson

Accretion disks in which angular momentum transport is dominated by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) can also possess additional, purely hydrodynamic, drivers of turbulence. Even when the hydrodynamic processes, on their own,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jared C. Workman , Philip J. Armitage

We show that a large-scale, weak magnetic field threading a turbulent accretion disk tends to be advected inward, contrary to previous suggestions that it will be stopped by outward diffusion. The efficient inward transport is a consequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David M. Rothstein , Richard V. E. Lovelace

We present global 3D MHD simulations of disks of gas and solids, aiming at developing models that can be used to study various scenarios of planet formation and planet-disk interaction in turbulent accretion disks. A second goal is to show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Lyra , A. Johansen , H. Klahr , N. Piskunov

In Keplerian accretion disks, turbulence and magnetic fields may be jointly excited through a subcritical dynamo process involving the magnetorotational instability (MRI). High-resolution simulations exhibit a tendency towards statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 A. Riols , F. Rincon , C. Cossu , G. Lesur , G. I. Ogilvie , P-Y. Longaretti

Astrophysical disks are likely embedded in an ambient vertical magnetic field. This ambient field is known to drive magneto-rotational turbulence in the disk bulk but is also responsible for the launching of magnetized outflows at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 J. Jacquemin-Ide , G. Lesur , J. Ferreira

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

The intermittent small-scale structure of turbulence governs energy dissipation in many astrophysical plasmas and is often believed to have universal properties for sufficiently large systems. In this work, we argue that small-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Vladimir Zhdankin , Justin Walker , Stanislav Boldyrev , Geoffroy Lesur

We perform axisymmetric, two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate accretion flows around spinning AGN. To mimic the space-time geometry of spinning black holes, we consider effective Kerr potential, and the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-25 Ramiz Aktar , Kuo-Chuan Pan , Toru Okuda

We present 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) numerical simulations of the evolution of self--gravitating and weakly magnetized disks with an adiabatic equation of state. Such disks are subject to the development of both the magnetorotational and…

Turbulence driven by magnetorotational instability (MRI) crucially affects the evolution of solid bodies in protoplanetary disks. On the other hand, small dust particles stabilize MRI by capturing ionized gas particles needed for the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Satoshi Okuzumi , Shigenobu Hirose

The outer protoplanetary disks (PPDs) can be subject to the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and the vertical shear instability (VSI). While both processes can drive turbulence in the disk, existing numerical simulations have studied…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Can Cui , Xue-Ning Bai