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Accretion discs are ubiquitous in the universe and it is a crucial issue to understand how angular momentum and mass are being radially transported in these objects. Here, we study the role played by non-linear spiral patterns within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 Patrick Hennebelle , Geoffroy Lesur , Sébastien Fromang

In this article, we proceed to study convection as a possible factor of episodic accretion in protoplanetary disks. Within the model presented in Article~I, the accretion history is analyzed at different rates and areas of matter inflow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 L. A. Maksimova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , A. V. Tutukov

The non-axisymmetric features observed in the discs of dwarf novae in outburst are usually considered to be spiral shocks, which are the non-linear relatives of tidally excited waves. This interpretation suffers from a number of problems.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. I. Ogilvie

Spiral wave solutions are found in linear and weakly nonlinear irrotational water wave equations. These unsteady spiral waves evolve from suitable initial conditions; they are not induced by external forcing. In the linear case, a long-time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-27 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole , Sean D. Nixon

Re-entrant spiral waves are observed in many different situations in nature, perhaps most importantly in excitable electrophysiological tissue where they are believed to be responsible for pathological conditions such as cardiac…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Petko Kitanov , Victor G. LeBlanc

Circumplanetary disks (CPDs) control the growth of planets, supply material for satellites to form, and provide observational signatures of young forming planets. We have carried out two dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with radiative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-20 Zhaohuan Zhu , Wenhua Ju , James M. Stone

Spiral waves are self-repeating waves that can form in excitable media, propagating outward from their center in a spiral pattern. Spiral waves have been observed in different natural phenomena and have been linked to medical conditions…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2020-08-11 Vincent Vangelista , Karl Amjad-Ali , Minhyeok Kwon , Paulo H. Acioli

A scroll wave in a very thin layer of excitable medium is similar to a spiral wave, but its behaviour is affected by the layer geometry. We identify the effect of sharp variations of the layer thickness, which is separate from filament…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-02-13 I. V. Biktasheva , H. Dierckx , V. N. Biktashev

We show that the combination of a weak magnetic propeller and accretion disc resonances can effectively halt accretion in short period cataclysmic variables for large fractions of their lifetimes. This may help to explain the discrepancy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. M. Matthews , P. J. Wheatley , G. A. Wynn , M. R. Truss

Numerous protoplanetary disks exhibit shadows in scattered light observations. These shadows are typically cast by misaligned inner disks and are associated with observable structures in the outer disk such as bright arcs and spirals.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Alexandros Ziampras , Cornelis P. Dullemond , Tilman Birnstiel , Myriam Benisty , Richard P. Nelson

Accretion discs are fundamental to much of astronomy. They can occur around stars both young and old, around compact objects they provide a window into the extremes of physics, and around supermassive black holes in galaxy centres they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Gabriella Zsidi , C. J. Nixon , T. Naylor , J. E. Pringle

The presence of spiral structure in isolated galaxies is a problem that has only been partially explained by theoretical models. Because the rate and pattern of star formation in the disk must depend only on mechanisms internal to the disk,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Cartin , G. Khanna

During episodes of atrial fibrillation, the heart's electrical activity becomes disorganized and shows fragmenting spiral waves. To systematically address how this pattern terminates using spatially extended simulations exceeds current…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-16 David Vidmar , Wouter-Jan Rappel

We use a high order accuracy spectral code to carry out two-dimensional time-dependent numerical simulations of vortices in accretion disks. In particular, we examine the stability and the life time of vortices in circumstellar disks around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick Godon , Mario Livio

We present experimental measurements on the spontaneous formation of compact spiral structures in vertically-vibrated granular chains. Under weak vibration, when the chain is quasi two-dimensional and self-avoiding, spiral structures emerge…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. E. Ecke , Z. A. Daya , M. K. Rivera , E. Ben-Naim

Spiral wave, whose rotation center can be regarded as a point defect, widely exists in various two dimensional excitable systems. In this paper, by making use of \emph{Duan's topological current theory}, we obtain the charge density of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-05-06 Ji-Rong Ren , Tao Zhu , Shu-Fan Mo

The vertical phase-space spirals in the Milky Way are clear evidence of disequilibrium. However, they are challenging to study because phase mixing signals evolve under the influence of many different dynamical processes and can be driven…

We study the vertical perturbations in the galactic disc of the Milky Way-size high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulation named GARROTXA. We detect phase spirals in the vertical projection $Z- V_{Z}$ of disc's stellar particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-24 Begoña García-Conde , Santi Roca-Fàbrega , Teresa Antoja , Pau Ramos , Octavio Valenzuela

Astrophysical disks that are sufficiently cold and dense are linearly unstable to the formation of axisymmetric rings as a result of the disk's gravity. In practice, spiral structures are formed, which may in turn produce bound fragments.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hongping Deng , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We study the spatial and temporal behavior of fluid in fully three-dimensional, general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamical simulations of both tilted and untilted black hole accretion flows. We uncover characteristically greater…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-16 Ken B. Henisey , Omer M. Blaes , P. Chris Fragile