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The extent to which angular momentum transport in accretion discs is primarily local or non-local and what determines this is an important avenue of study for understanding accretion engines. Taking a step along this path, we analyze…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Farrukh Nauman , Eric G. Blackman

[Abridged] Aims. We provide an important step toward a better understanding of the magnetorotational instability (MRI)-dust coevolution in protoplanetary disks by presenting a proof of concept that dust evolution ultimately plays a crucial…

We report the first direct evidence for the axisymmetric standard magnetorotational instability (SMRI) from a combined experimental and numerical study of a magnetized liquid-metal shear flow in a Taylor-Couette cell with independently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-20 Yin Wang , Erik P. Gilson , Fatima Ebrahimi , Jeremy Goodman , Hantao Ji

The Accretion-Ejection Instability (AEI) described by Tagger & Pellat (1999) is explored numerically using a global 2d model of the inner region of a magnetised accretion disk. The disk is initially currentless but threaded by a vertical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. E. Caunt , M. Tagger

Simulations of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in a homogeneous shearing box have shown that the asymptotic strength of the magnetic field declines steeply with increasing resolution. Here I model the MRI driven dynamo as a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Ethan T. Vishniac

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) (Balbus and Hawley 1991, Hawley and Balbus 1991) transports angular momentum radially outwards in accretion discs through the distortion of the magnetic field lines that connect fluid elements. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raquel Salmeron , Mark Wardle

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) drives magnetized turbulence in sufficiently ionized regions of protoplanetary disks, leading to mass accretion. The dissipation of the potential energy associated with this accretion determines the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Colin P. McNally , Alexander Hubbard , Chao-Chin Yang , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We discuss results of global 3D MHD simulations of accretion on to a rotating magnetized star with a tilted dipole magnetic field, where the accretion is driven by the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). The simulations show that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

In this paper we investigate the influence of radiative transport on the growth of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) in accretion discs. The analysis is performed by use of analytical and numerical means. We provide a general…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Flaig , R. Kissmann , W. Kley

Based on the characteristics of the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and the MRI-driven turbulence, we construct a steady model for a geometrically thin disk using "non-standard" $\alpha$-prescription. The efficiency of the angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Youhei Masada

The standard general relativistic model of a razor-thin accretion disk around a black hole, developed by Novikov & Thorne (NT) in 1973, assumes the shear stress vanishes at the radius of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) and that,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Robert F. Penna , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Rebecca Shafee , Jeffrey E. McClintock

For the past twenty-five years, nearly all analyses of accretion disk dynamics have assumed that stress inside the disk is locally proportional to pressure (the "alpha-model") and that this stress goes to zero at the marginally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Julian H. Krolik

Accretion disks are highly unstable to magnetic instabilities driven by shear flow, where classically, the axisymmetric, weak-field Magneto-Rotational Instability (MRI) has received much attention through local WKB approximations. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-21 Nicolas Brughmans , Rony Keppens , Hans Goedbloed

This paper presents a series of global three dimensional accretion disk simulations carried out in the cylindrical limit in which the vertical component of the gravitational field is neglected. The simulations use a cylindrical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John F. Hawley

The initial magnetic field of previous magnetorotational instability (MRI) simulations has always included a significant system-scale component, even if stochastic. However, it is of conceptual and practical interest to assess whether the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-13 Pallavi Bhat , Fatima Ebrahimi , Eric G. Blackman , Kandaswamy Subramanian

We examine the nonlinear development of unstable magnetosonic waves driven by a background radiative flux -- the Radiation-Driven Magneto-Acoustic Instability (RMI, a.k.a. the "photon bubble" instability). The RMI may serve as a persistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rodrigo Fernández , Aristotle Socrates

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 carried out global three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of dynamo activities in galactic gaseous disks without assuming equatorial symmetry. Numerical results indicate the growth of azimuthal magnetic fields non-symmetric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Mami Machida , Kenji E. Nakamura , Takahiro Kudoh , Takuya Akahori , Sofue Yoshiaki , Ryoji Matsumoto

We perform 3D radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the evolution of the fallback debris after a tidal disruption event. We focus on studying the effects of magnetic fields on the formation and early evolution of the accretion flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Maria Renee Meza , Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang

We carried out 2D-axisymmetric MHD simulations of core-collapse supernovae for rapidly-rotating magnetized progenitors. By changing both the strength of the magnetic field and the spatial resolution, the evolution of the magnetorotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada