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(Abridged) We analyse the stability and evolution of power-law accretion disc models. These have midplane densities that follow radial power-laws, and have either temperature or entropy distributions that are power-law functions of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Richard P. Nelson , Oliver Gressel , Orkan M. Umurhan

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability can provide diffusive transport of angular momentum in astrophysical disks, and a widely studied computational model for this process is the ideal, stratified,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Benjamin R. Ryan , Charles F. Gammie , Sebastien Fromang , Pierre Kestener

We introduce the public version of the cosmological magnetohydrodynamical moving-mesh simulation code Arepo. This version contains a finite-volume magnetohydrodynamics algorithm on an unstructured, dynamic Voronoi tessellation coupled to a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Rainer Weinberger , Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor

We present a new comprehensive model of the physics of galaxy formation designed for large-scale hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation using the moving mesh code AREPO. Our model includes primordial and metal line cooling with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Debora Sijacki , Paul Torrey , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

I consider the nonaxisymmetric linear theory of a rotating, isothermal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shear flow. The analysis is performed in the shearing box, a local model of a thin disk, using a decomposition in terms of shearing waves,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Bryan M. Johnson

Simulating the dust content of galaxies and their surrounding gas is challenging due to the wide range of physical processes affecting the dust evolution. Here we present cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a cluster of galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-09 Mark Vogelsberger , Ryan McKinnon , Stephanie O'Neil , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Rahul Kannan

Radial transport of particles, elements and fluid driven by internal stresses in three-dimensional (3D) astrophysical accretion disks is an important phenomenon, potentially relevant for the outward dust transport in protoplanetary disks,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Alexander A. Philippov , Roman R. Rafikov

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 describe a technique for improving the performance of hydrodynamics codes which employ a moving Voronoi mesh. Currently, such codes are susceptible to high-frequency noise produced by rapid adjustments in the grid topology on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Paul C. Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen

We perform uniformly sampled large-scale cosmological simulations including magnetic fields with the moving mesh code AREPO. We run two sets of MHD simulations: one including adiabatic gas physics only; the other featuring the fiducial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Philip Mocz , Ruediger Pakmor

The rheological properties for dilute and moderately dense granular binary mixtures of smooth, inelastic hard disks/spheres under uniform shear flow in steady state conditions are reported. The results are based on the Enskog kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Montanero , V. Garzo , M. Alam , S. Luding

We investigate the evolution of angular momentum in SPH simulations of galaxy formation, paying particular attention to artificial numerical effects. We find that a cold gas disc forming in an ambient hot gas halo receives a strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Okamoto , A. Jenkins , V. R. Eke , V. Quilis , C. S. Frenk

We show how the local approximation of astrophysical discs, which is the basis for the well known model of the shearing box, can be used to study many aspects of the dynamics of warped discs. In the local model, inclination of the orbit of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Gordon I. Ogilvie

The emergence of turbulence in shear flows is a well-investigated field. Yet, one of major issues is the apparent contradiction between linear stability analysis quoting a flow to be stable and results from experiments and simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-28 Tanayveer Singh Bhatia , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In this work we extend the non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) solver in the moving mesh code AREPO to include the Hall effect. The core of our algorithm is based on an estimation of the magnetic field gradients by a least-square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Oliver Zier , Alexander C. Mayer , Volker Springel

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a fundamental mechanism determining the macroscopic dynamics of astrophysical accretion disks. In collisionless accretion flows around supermassive black holes, MRI-driven plasma turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Fabio Bacchini , Lev Arzamasskiy , Vladimir Zhdankin , Gregory R. Werner , Mitchell C. Begelman , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Due to the gravitational influence of density fluctuations driven by magneto-rotational instability in the gas disk, planetesimals and protoplanets undergo diffusive radial migration as well as changes in other orbital properties. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Chao-Chin Yang , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Kristen Menou

A discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method suitable for large-scale astrophysical simulations on Cartesian meshes as well as arbitrary static and moving Voronoi meshes is presented. Most major astrophysical fluid dynamics codes use a finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Ruediger Pakmor , Lars Hernquist

Explicit numerical computations of super-fast differentially rotating disks are subject to the time-step constraint imposed by the Courant condition. When the bulk orbital velocity largely exceeds any other wave speed the time step is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Mignone , M. Flock , M. Stute , S. M. Kolb , G. Muscianisi

Chaotic flow is studied in a series of numerical magnetohydrodynamical simulations that use the shearing box formalism. This mimics important features of local accretion disk dynamics. The magnetorotational instability gives rise to flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. F. Winters , S. A. Balbus , J. F. Hawley