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Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is used to estimate accretion rates of mass, linear and angular momentum in a binary system where one component undergoes mass loss through a wind. Physical parameters are chosen such as to model the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tom Theuns , Henri Boffin , Alain Jorissen

Supermassive black hole binaries may form as a consequence of galaxy mergers. Both prograde and retrograde orbits have been proposed. We study a binary of a small mass ratio, q, in a retrograde orbit immersed in and interacting with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-25 P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou , S. -J. Paardekooper , A. G. Polnarev

Hydrodynamical interactions between binaries and circumbinary disks (CBDs) play an important role in a variety of astrophysical systems, from young stellar binaries to supermassive black hole binaries. Previous simulations of CBDs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Hai-Yang Wang , Xue-Ning Bai , Dong Lai

We run three long-timescale general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion flows onto non-rotating black holes. Our aim is to achieve steady-state behavior out to large radii and understand the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , Charles F. Gammie

We explore an unresolved controversy in the literature about the accuracy of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in modeling the accretion of gas onto a binary system, a problem with important applications to the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew D. Young , Jonathon T. Baird , Cathie J. Clarke

We describe general-relativistically a spherically symmetric stationary fluid accretion onto a black hole. Relativistic effects enhance mass accretion, in comparison to the Bondi model predictions, in the case when backreaction is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Edward Malec

We study to which extent planetesimal accretion is affected by the perturbing presence of a compagnon star. We concentrate on one crucial parameter: the distribution of encounter velocities within the planetesimal swarm. We numerically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Marzari , Philippe Thebault , Steven Kortenkamp , Hans Scholl

We investigate the physics of gas accretion in young stellar clusters. Accretion in clusters is a dynamic phenomenon as both the stars and the gas respond to the same gravitational potential. Accretion rates are highly non-uniform with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 I. A. Bonnell , M. R. Bate , C. J. Clarke , J. E. Pringle

We study circumbinary accretion discs in the framework of the restricted three-body problem (R3Bp) and via numerically solving the height-integrated equations of viscous hydrodynamics. Varying the mass ratio of the binary, we find a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-10 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Zoltan Haiman , Paul Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen , Brian D. Farris

By means of a one-zone evolutionary model, we study the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, as a function of the accretion radiative efficiency, dark matter content, and cosmological infall of gas. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Lusso , L. Ciotti

We investigate the impact of the Bondi--Hoyle--Lyttleton (BHL) accretion mechanism on the evolution of nova eruptions in symbiotic systems by systematically varying three key input parameters: the initial donor (asymptotic giant branch;…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Irin Babu Vathachira , Yael Hillman , Amit Kashi

Dynamic shear banding under adiabatic conditions in a mesoscale polycrystalline aggregate is studied using a model of mesoscale dislocation mechanics and experiments. The model involves a length scale related to hardening induced by…

We perform three dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of gas accretion onto the seeds of binary stars to investigate their short-term evolution. Our simulation setup is more realistic compared to the previous works…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Tatsuya Satsuka , Toru Tsuribe , Suguru Tanaka , Kentaro Nagamine

Using 3D radiation-hydrodynamic simulations and analytic theory, we study the orbital evolution of asymptotic-giant-branch (AGB) binary systems for various initial orbital separations and mass ratios, and thus different initial accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-08 Zhuo Chen , Eric G. Blackman , Jason Nordhaus , Adam Frank , Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback

For the one-dimensional mass-critical/supercritical pseudo-relativistic nonlinear Schrodinger equation, a stationary solution can be constructed as an energy minimizer under an additional kinetic energy constraint and the set of energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Sangdon Jin , Younghun Hong

The solid accretion rate, necessary to grow gas giant planetary cores within the disk lifetime, has been a major constraint for theories of planet formation. We tested the solid accretion rate efficiency on planetary cores of different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Apostolos Zormpas , Giovanni Picogna , Barbara Ercolano , Wilhelm Kley

In this work, we present, for the first time, a numerical study of the Bondi-Hoyle accretion with density gradients in the fully relativistic regime. In this context, we consider accretion onto a Kerr Black Hole (BH) of a supersonic ideal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-03 F. D. Lora-Clavijo , A. Cruz-Osorio , Enrique Moreno Méndez

We examine the properties of spiral shocks from a steady, adiabatic, non-axisymmetric accretion disk around a compact star in binary. We first time incorporate all the possible influences from binary through adopting the Roche potential and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Ramiz Aktar , Li Xue , Tong Liu

Recently, an exact spherically symmetric analytic accretion solution was presented having simple $\rho \propto R^{-3/2}$ and $V \propto R^{-1/2}$ scalings in Hernandez et al. (2023). In dimensionless variables that solution forms a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 X. Hernandez , L. Nasser , P. L. Rendon

Under compressive creep, visco-plastic solids experiencing internal mass transfer processes have been recently proposed to accommodate singular cnoidal wave solutions, as material instabilities at the stationary wave limit. These…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Roberto J. Cier , Thomas Poulet , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo , Manolis Veveakis