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In the presence of non-minimal gravitational couplings, matter field perturbations on a static black hole spacetime may develop unphysical poles in their linearized equations. Physical solutions confined in the domain between the event…

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We investigated the instability of advective accretion flow as a consequence of angular momentum transfer in one-dimensional, quasi-spherical transonic accretion flow around a non-rotating black hole. The code is designed to include the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-09 Seong-Jae Lee , Dongsu Ryu , Indranil Chattopadhyay

This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamics of Newton's problem of minimal resistance in radial fields. We move beyond classical translational symmetry to analyze two non-equilibrium scenarios: a scale-invariant free expansion and an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-15 Rafael López

Gradient flow in a potential energy (or Euclidean action) landscape provides a natural set of paths connecting different saddle points. We apply this method to General Relativity, where gradient flow is Ricci flow, and focus on the example…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew Headrick , Toby Wiseman

We establish existence, uniqueness and stability of transonic shocks for steady compressible non-isentropic potential flow system in a multidimensional divergent nozzle with an arbitrary smooth cross-section, for a prescribed exit pressure.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Myoungjean Bae , Mikhail Feldman

Stationary and axisymmetric ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion onto a black hole is studied analytically. The accreting plasma ejected from a plasma source with low velocity must be super-fast magnetosonic before passing through the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaaki Takahashi , Akira Tomimatsu

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

Global solutions of optically thick advective accretion disks around black holes are constructed. The solutions are obtained by solving numerically a set of ordinary differential equations corresponding to a steady axisymmetric…

The accretion of relativistic and non-relativistic fluids into a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole is revisited. The position of the critical point, the flow velocity at this point and the accretion rate are only slightly affected with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-03 J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

We construct a general relativistic model for the accretion flow of a rotating finite cloud of non-interacting particles infalling onto a Schwarzschild black hole. The streamlines start at a spherical shell, where boundary conditions are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-20 Emilio Tejeda , Sergio Mendoza , John C. Miller

The influence of a linearized perturbation on stationary inflow solutions in an inviscid and thin accretion disc, has been studied here, and it has been argued, that a perturbative technique would indicate that all possible classes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arnab K. Ray

The null geodesics of a Schwarzschild black hole are studied from a dynamical systems perspective. Written in terms of Kerr-Schild coordinates, the null geodesic equation takes on the simple form of a particle moving under the influence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Edward Belbruno , Frans Pretorius

We obtain global solutions of radiatively inefficiently accretion flows around black holes. Whether and where convection develops in a flow are self-consistently determined with the mixing-length theory. The solutions can be divided into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ju-Fu Lu , Shuang-Liang Li , Wei-Min Gu

By applying the theory of algebraic polynomials and the theory of dynamical systems, we construct the generalized Sturm sequences/chains to investigate the transonic properties of hydrodynamic accretion onto non-rotating astrophysical black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-13 Shilpi Agarwal , Tapas K. Das , Rukmini Dey

A new theory of eccentric accretion discs is presented. Starting from the basic fluid-dynamical equations in three dimensions, I derive the fundamental set of one-dimensional equations that describe how the mass, angular momentum and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. I. Ogilvie

We study time evolution of sub-Keplerian transonic accretion flows onto black holes using a general relativistic numerical simulation code. We perform simulations around the black holes having non-zero rotation. We first compare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Jinho Kim , Sudip K. Garain , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Dinshaw S. Balsara

Two-dimensional accretion flows near black holes have been investigated by time-dependent hydrodynamical calculations. We assume that the flow is axisymmetric and that radiative losses of internal energy are negligible, so that the disc is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Igor V. Igumenshchev , Xingming Chen , Marek A. Abramowicz

We investigate the time evolution of the transonic-viscous accretion flow around a non-rotating black hole. The input parameters used for the simulation are obtained from semi-analytical solutions. This code is based on the TVD routine and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Sanjit Debnath , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Raj Kishor Joshi

Pseudo-Newtonian potentials are a tool often used in theoretical astrophysics to capture some key features of a black-hole space-time in a Newtonian framework. As a result, one can use Newtonian numerical codes, and Newtonian formalism in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-08 Vojtech Witzany , Claus Laemmerzahl

We analytically study how the behaviour of accretion flows changes when the flow model is varied. We study the transonic properties of the conical flow, a flow of constant height and a flow in vertical equilibrium and show that all these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. K. Chakrabarti , Santabrata Das