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We examine the effect of variable viscosity parameter ($\alpha$) in relativistic, low angular momentum advective accretion flow around rotating black holes. Following the recent simulation studies of magnetohydrodynamic disk that reveal the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-27 Monu Singh , Santabrata Das

The $\alpha$ turbulent viscosity formalism for accretion discs must be interpreted as a mean field theory. The extent to which the disc scale exceeds that of the turbulence determines the precision of the predicted luminosity $L_\nu$. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric G. Blackman

We add the $\alpha-$ effect in the dynamo driven accretion disk model proposed by Tout & Pringle (1992), i.e., a dynamo model depends on the physical processes such as Parker instability, Balbus-Hawley instability, magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chun-yu Ma , Peter L Biermann

The physical mechanisms driving angular momentum transport in accretion discs are still unknown. Although it is generally accepted that, in hot discs, the turbulence triggered by the magneto-rotational instability is at the origin of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-19 Iwona Kotko , Jean-Pierre Lasota

We study dynamics of circumstellar discs, with a focus on the $\beta$ Lyrae A binary system. This system with ongoing mass transfer has been extensively observed, using photometry, spectroscopy and interferometry. All these observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kristián Vitovský , Miroslav Brož

We use the mean-field dynamo equations to show that an incoherent alpha effect in mirror-symmetric turbulence in a shearing flow can generate a large scale, coherent magnetic field. We illustrate this effect with simulations of a few simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ethan T. Vishniac , Axel Brandenburg

We present the results of a study of propagating warp or bending waves in accretion discs. Three dimensional hydrodynamic simulations were performed using SPH, and the results of these are compared with calculations based on the linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard P. Nelson , John C. B. Papaloizou

An analytic solution is presented to the three-dimensional problem of steady axisymmetric fluid flow through an accretion disk. The solution has been obtained through a systematic expansion in the small parameter epsilon =H/R (the ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Kluzniak , D. Kita

We propose a generalized accretion disk viscosity prescription based on hydrodynamically driven turbulence at the critical effective Reynolds number. This approach is consistent with recent re-analysis by Richard & Zahn (1999) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang J. Duschl , Peter A. Strittmatter , Peter L. Biermann

Numerical simulations of turbulent, magnetized, differentially rotating flows driven by the magnetorotational instability are often used to calculate the effective values of alpha viscosity that is invoked in analytical models of accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin E. Pessah , Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis

The dynamical foundations of $\alpha$ disk models are described. At the heart of the viscous formalism of accretion disk models are correlations in the fluctuating components of the disk velocity, magnetic field, and gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Balbus , J. C. B. Papaloizou

In order to study the outflows from accretion disks, we solve the set of hydrodynamic equations for accretion disks in the spherical coordinates ($r\theta\phi$) to obtain the explicit structure along the $\theta$ direction. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-25 Cheng-Liang Jiao , Xue-Bing Wu

Layered accretion is one of the inevitable ingredients in protoplanetary disks when disk turbulence is excited by magnetorotational instabilities (MRIs). In the accretion, disk surfaces where MRIs fully operate have a high value of disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Taku Takeuchi

We investigate different accretion disk models and viscosity prescriptions in order to provide a basic explanation for the exotic temporal behavior in GRS 1915+105. Based on the fact that the overall cycle times are very much longer than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sergei Nayakshin , Saul Rappaport , Fulvio Melia

A commonly cited drawback of SPH is the introduction of spurious shear viscosity by the artificial viscosity term in situations involving rotation. Existing approaches for quantifying its effect include approximate analytic formulae and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paul A. Taylor , John C. Miller

We consider a simple Newtonian model of a steady accretion disk around a black hole. The model is based on height-integrated hydrodynamic equations, alpha-viscosity, and a pseudo-Newtonian potential that results in an innermost stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rebecca Shafee , Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock

The equations governing the vertical structure of a stationary keplerian accretion disc are presented. The model is based on the alpha-viscosity, includes self-gravity, convective transport and turbulent pressure. A few properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jean-Marc Hure

We investigate the time evolution of luminous accretion disks around black holes, conducting the two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations. We adopt the alpha prescription for the viscosity. The radial-azimuthal component of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Ohsuga

Observations, mainly of outbursts in dwarf novae, imply that the anomalous viscosity in highly ionized accretion discs is magnetic in origin, and requires that the plasma $\beta \sim 1$. Until now most simulations of the magnetic dynamo in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 C. J. Nixon , C. C. T. Pringle , J. E. Pringle

We investigated the instability of advective accretion flow as a consequence of angular momentum transfer in one-dimensional, quasi-spherical transonic accretion flow around a non-rotating black hole. The code is designed to include the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-09 Seong-Jae Lee , Dongsu Ryu , Indranil Chattopadhyay