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When the accretion rate is more than a small fraction of Eddington, the inner regions of accretion disks around black holes are expected to be radiation-dominated. However, in the alpha-model, these regions are also expected to be thermally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Shigenobu Hirose , Julian H. Krolik , Omer Blaes

We perform general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of super-Eddington accretion flows around a neutron star with a dipole magnetic field for modeling the galactic ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX) exhibiting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Akihiro Inoue , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Yuta Asahina

We review recent advances in the numerical modeling of turbulent flows and star formation. An overview of the most widely used simulation codes and their core capabilities is provided. We then examine methods for achieving the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Christoph Federrath , Stella Offner

Black holes with accretion rates well below the Eddington rate are expected to be surrounded by low-density, hot, geometrically thick accretion disks. This includes the two black holes being imaged at sub-horizon resolution by the Event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Francois Foucart , Mani Chandra , Charles F. Gammie , Eliot Quataert , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

In this paper we examine time-dependent and three-dimensional perturbations of spherical accretion flow onto a neutron star close to its Eddington limit. Our treatment assumes a Schwarzschild geometry for the spacetime outside the neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Guy S. Miller , Myeong-Gu Park

We examine the small-scale dynamics of black hole accretion disks in which radiation pressure exceeds gas pressure. Local patches of disk are modeled by numerically integrating the equations of radiation MHD in the flux-limited diffusion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. J. Turner , J. M. Stone , J. H. Krolik , T. Sano

Standard models of radiation supported accretion disks generally assume that diffusive radiation flux is solely responsible for vertical heat transport. This requires that heat must be generated at a critical rate per unit volume if the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Omer Blaes , Julian H. Krolik , Shigenobu Hirose , Natalia Shabaltas

This review article summarizes two decades of laboratory research aimed at understanding the dynamics of accretion disks, with particular emphasis on magnetohydrodynamic experiments involving liquid metals and plasmas. First, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Christophe Gissinger

We study the ejection of winds from thin accretion discs around stellar mass black holes and the time evolution of these winds in presence of radiation field generated by the accretion disc. Winds are produced by radiation, thermal pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Sananda Raychaudhuri , Mukesh K. Vyas , Indranil Chattopadhyay

Recent simulations on super-Eddington accretion flows have shown that, apart from the diffusion process, the vertical advection based on magnetic buoyancy can be a more efficient process to release the trapped photons in the optically thick…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Tuan Yi , Wei-Min Gu , Feng Yuan , Tong Liu , Hui-Jun Mu

As the title suggests, the purpose of this chapter is to review the current status of numerical simulations of black hole accretion disks. This chapter focuses exclusively on global simulations of the accretion process within a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 P. Chris Fragile

(Abridged) Finite radius accretion disks are a strong candidate for launching astrophysical jets from their inner parts and disk-winds are considered as the basic component of such magnetically collimated outflows. The only available…

An accretion flow onto a supermassive black hole is the primary process powering quasars. However, a geometry of this flow is not well constrained. Both global MHD simulations and observations suggest that there are several emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Aneta Siemiginowska

The theory of jet emitting disks (JEDs) provides a mathematical framework for a self-consistent treatment of steady-state accretion and ejection. A large-scale vertical magnetic field threads the accretion disk where magnetic turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 N. Zimniak , J. Ferreira , J. Jacquemin-Ide

Massive stars can form within or be captured by AGN disks, influencing both the thermal structure and metallicity of the disk environment. In a previous work, we investigated isotropic accretion onto massive stars from a gas-rich,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Yi-Xian Chen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jeremy Goodman

We discuss the results of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, using a pseudo-Newtonian potential, of thin disk (h/r ~ 0.1) accretion onto black holes. We find (i) that magnetic stresses persist within the marginally stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Christopher S. Reynolds , Philip J. Armitage , James Chiang

We study accretion processes for tidally disrupted stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find that there…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Kimitake Hayasaki , Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb

We examine mass outflows from a low-angular momentum, viscous, advective, and magnetized accretion disk around a rotating black hole in presence of thermal conduction. We consider the disk is primarily threaded by the toroidal component of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Camelia Jana , Monu Singh , Suvendu Rakshit , Santabrata Das

A new general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamical code KORAL, is described, which employs the M1 scheme to close the radiation moment equations. The code has been successfully verified against a number of tests. Axisymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , J. C. McKinney , A. Tchekhovskoy

In this paper we extend our previous works on spherically symmetric accretion onto black holes and super-spinars to the case in which the fluid has a finite angular momentum initially. We run 2.5D and 3D general relativistic hydrodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-22 Cosimo Bambi , Naoki Yoshida