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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

Accretion disks are three-dimensional, turbulent, often self-gravitating, magnetohydrodynamic flows, which can be modeled in detail with numerical simulations. In this paper, we present a new algorithm that is based on a spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

The existence of outflow and magnetic field in the inner region of hot accretion flows have been confirmed by observations and numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations (MHD). We present self-similar solutions for radiation inefficiently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Abbassi , A. Mosallanezhad

Accretion disks and astrophysical jets are used to model many active astrophysical objects, viz., young stars, relativistic stars, and active galactic nuclei. In this paper we present self-consistent time-dependent simulations of supersonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Zanni , A. Ferrari , R. Rosner , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia

We have carried out and analyzed a set of axisymmetric MHD simulations of the evolution of a turbulent/diffusive accretion disc around an initially unmagnetized star. The disc is initially threaded by a weak magnetic field where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Dyda , R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , P. S. Lii , M. M. Romanova , A. V. Koldoba

We analyze a two dimensional viscoresistive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) model for a thin accretion disk which reconciles the crystalline structure outlined in [Coppi(2005), Coppi and Rousseau(2006)] with real microscopic and macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Riccardo Benini , Giovanni Montani , Jacopo Petitta

In recent years, it has been demonstrated that massive stars see their infant circumstellar medium shaped into a large, irradiated, gravitationally unstable accretion disc during their early formation phase. Such discs constitute the gas…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 D. M. -A. Meyer , E. Vorobyov

(Abridged) We report results of three dimensional MHD simulations of global accretion disks threaded with weak vertical magnetic fields. We perform the simulations in the spherical coordinates with different temperature profiles and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

This work considers flows from an accretion disk corotating with the aligned dipole magnetic field of a rotating star. Ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is assumed with the pressure and density related as $p \propto \rho^\gamma$ and with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace , G. V. Ustyugova , M. M. Romanova

The aim of this paper is to investigate the properties of accretion disks threaded by a weak vertical magnetic field, with a particular focus on the interplay between MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability (MRI) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Sebastien Fromang , Henrik N. Latter , Geoffroy Lesur , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We use global magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the influence of net vertical magnetic fields on the structure of geometrically thin ($H/r \approx 0.05$) accretion disks in the Newtonian limit. We consider initial mid-plane gas to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-23 Bhupendra Mishra , Mitchell C. Begelman , Philip J. Armitage , Jacob B. Simon

The supercritical disk accretion flow with radiatively driven outflows is studied based on two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations for a wide range of the mass input rate, $\dot{M}_{\rm input}$, which is the mass supplied from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. Ohsuga

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

We present the results of axisymmetric simulations of MRI-driven accretion onto a rapidly rotating, magnetized star accreting in the propeller regime. The stellar magnetosphere corotates with the star, forming a centrifugal barrier at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Patrick S Lii , Marina M. Romanova , Galina V. Ustyugova , Alexander V. Koldoba , Richard V. E. Lovelace

Previous hydrodynamical (HD) and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) numerical simulations of hot accretion flows have shown that the mass accretion rate decreases with decreasing radius. Two models have been proposed to explain this result. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Feng Yuan , Defu Bu , Maochun Wu

When gas accretes onto a black hole, at a rate either much less than or much greater than the Eddington rate, it is likely to do so in an "adiabatic" or radiatively inefficient manner. Under fluid (as opposed to MHD) conditions, the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roger D. Blandford , Mitchell C. Begelman

The evolution of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field in accretion discs is an important problem because of its role in the launching of jets and winds and in determining the intensity of turbulence. In this paper, we develop a formalism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Jerome Guilet , Gordon I. Ogilvie

A widely accepted picture of an accretion flow in the luminous soft spectral state of X-ray binary systems is a geometrically thin disc structure much like the classic analytic solution of Shakura \& Sunyaev. Although the analytic models…

Observations indicate that stars generally lose their protoplanetary discs on a timescale of about 5 Myr. Which mechanisms are responsible for the disc dissipation is still debated. Here we investigate the movement through an ambient medium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 T. P. G. Wijnen , O. R. Pols , F. I. Pelupessy , S. Portegies Zwart

We perform axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the acceleration and collimation of jets and outflows from disks around compact objects. The fiducial disk surface (respectively a slow disk wind) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Porth , C. Fendt