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Purely gravitational perturbations are considered in a thin rotating disk composed of several gas and stellar components. The dispersion relation for the axisymmetric density waves propagating through the disk is found and the criterion for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman R. Rafikov

The magnetic Prandtl number Pr_M is the ratio of viscosity to resistivity. In astrophysical disks the diffusion of angular momentum (viscosity) and magnetic fields (resistivity) are controlled by turbulence. Phenomenological models of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 Xiaoyue Guan , Charles F. Gammie

Interfacial instability would be aroused on a spherical liquid droplet when it is subject to external vertical vibration. In this paper, a linear analysis was conducted on this instability problem. The polar-angle dependent acceleration in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-23 Yikai Li , Kun Wu , Dehua Liu , Ru Xi

In dilute astrophysical plasmas, the collisional mean free path of a particle can exceed its Larmor radius. Under these conditions, the thermal conductivity and viscosity of the plasma can be dramatically altered. This alteration allows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tanim Islam , Steven Balbus

We show for the first time that sustained turbulence is possible at low magnetic Prandtl number for Keplerian flows with no mean magnetic flux. Our results indicate that increasing the vertical domain size is equivalent to increasing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Farrukh Nauman , Martin E. Pessah

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

A semi-explicit formula of solution to the boundary layer system for thermal layer derived from the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with the non-slip boundary condition when the viscosity coefficients vanish is given, in particular in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Cheng-Jie Liu , Ya-Guang Wang , Tong Yang

The linear stability of viscous Keplerian flow around a gravitating center is studied using the rheological granular fluid model. The linear rheological instability triggered by the interplay of the shear rheology and Keplerian differential…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Luka G. Poniatowski , Alexander G. Tevzadze

Recently Ghosh (1998) reported a new regime of instability in Keplerian accretion disks which is caused by relativistic effects. This instability appears in the gas pressure dominated region when all relativistic corrections to the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Moderski , B. Czerny

A novel phase field method is proposed to model the continuous transition of binary fluids exhibiting temperature sensitive miscibility gap, from immiscible state to miscible state via partially miscible states. The model is employed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-28 Anubhav Dubey , Constantin Habes , Holger Marschall , Sakir Amiroudine

This paper addresses resonantly forced spiral density waves in a dense planetary ring which is close to the threshold for viscous overstability. We solve numerically the hydrodynamical equations for a dense, axisymmetric thin disk in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Marius Lehmann , Juergen Schmidt , Heikki Salo

We use smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of massive protostellar discs to investigate the predicted broadening of molecular lines from discs in which self-gravity is the dominant source of angular momentum transport. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Duncan H. Forgan , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

We study global non-axisymmetric oscillation modes and instabilities in magnetosphere- disc systems, as expected in neutron star X-ray binaries and possibly also in accreting black hole systems. Our two-dimensional magnetosphere-disc model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-28 Wen Fu , Dong Lai

This paper presents a systematic study for analytic aspects of discrete spectra methods for convolution of functions supported on disks, according to the Sturm-Liouville theory. We then investigate different aspects of the presented theory…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Arash Ghaani Farashahi , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Linear stability analysis of the axisymmetric interface of velocity and density discontinuity in rotating gaseous disk has been performed numerically and analytically. Physical mechanisms leading to development of centrifugal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Bezborodov , V. V. Mustsevoy

We perform numerical simulations of solid particle motion in a shearing box model of a protoplanetary disc. The accretion flow is turbulent due to the action of the magnetorotational instability. Aerodynamic drag on the particles is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Augusto Carballido , James M. Stone , Neal J. Turner

Nonlinear time-dependent calculations have been carried out in order to study the evolution of the thermal instability for optically thick, transonic, slim accretion discs around black holes. In the present calculations we have investigated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ewa Szuszkiewicz , John C. Miller

We carry out three-dimensional, high resolution (up to $1024^2\times 256$) hydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of vortices in vertically unstratified Keplerian disks using the shearing sheet approximation. The transient amplification…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Yue Shen , James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner , ;

We study the possible origin of hydrodynamic turbulence in cold accretion disks such as those in star-forming systems and quiescent cataclysmic variables. As these systems are expected to have neutral gas, the turbulent viscosity is likely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Niayesh Afshordi , Ramesh Narayan

We revisit the problem of stationary distribution of vorticity in three-dimensional turbulence. Using Clebsch variables we construct an explicit invariant measure on stationary solutions of Euler equations with the extra condition of fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Alexander Migdal