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We present results of numerical simulation of thin accretion disks and winds. We use the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique for this purpose. We show that the simulation agrees very well with the recent theoretical work on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Diego Molteni

This paper is a sequel to our previous work for accretion onto a Schwarzschild black hole and the so-called standing accretion shock instability (SASI), in this paper we investigate non-axisymmetric perturbations for a Kerr black hole. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

We explore isothermal shock formation in non-equatorial, adiabatic accretion flows onto a rotating black hole, with possible application to some active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The isothermal shock jump conditions as well as the regularity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keigo Fukumura , Sachiko Tsuruta

We study the stability of standing shock waves in advection-dominated accretion flows into a Schwarzschild black hole by 2D general relativistic hydrodynamic simulations as well as linear analysis in the equatorial plane. We demonstrate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

We present results of numerical simulation of inviscid thick accretion disks and wind flows around black holes. We use Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique for this purpose. Formation of thick disks are found to be preceded by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Diego Molteni , G. Lanzafame , S. K. Chakrabarti

We discuss the solution of accretion disk when the black hole is chosen to be rotating. We study, how the fluid properties get affected for different rotation parameters of the black hole. We know that no cosmic object is static in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We study the relativistic viscous accretion flows around the Kerr black holes. We present the governing equations that describe the steady state flow motion in full general relativity and solve them in 1.5D to obtain the complete set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 I. Dihingia , Santabrata Das , Debaprasad Maity , Anuj Nandi

We discuss a special case of formation of axisymmetric shocks in the accretion flow of ideal gas onto a Schwarzschild black hole: when the total energy of the flow is negative. The result of our analysis enlarges the parameter space for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Molteni , G. Gerardi , V. Teresi

Most black holes possess accretion disks. Models of such disks inform observations and constrain the properties of the black holes and their surrounding medium. Here, we study isothermal shocks in a thin black hole accretion flow. Modelling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Eric W. Hester , Geoffrey M. Vasil , Martin Wechselberger

We investigate the axially symmetric accretion of low angular momentum hydrodynamic matter onto a rotating black hole. The gravitational field under consideration is assumed to be described by a pseudo-Newtonian Kerr potential. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Kalyanbrata Pal , Souvik Ghose , Shilpa Sarkar , Tapas K. Das

We perform stability analysis of an accretion disc around a stellar mass black hole. The cooling of the accretion flow due to bremsstrahlung and synchrotron radiation processes are considered. The solutions with shock are perturbed at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sivakumar G. Manickam

We present time-dependent solutions of thin, supersonic accretion flows near a black hole and compare them with analytical solutions. Such flows of inviscid, adiabatic gas are characterized by the specific angular momentum and the specific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dongsu Ryu , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

I discuss the stability of accretion disks when the black hole is considered to be rotating. I show, how the fluid properties get changed for different choices of angular momentum of black holes. I treat the problem in pseudo-Newtonian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Theoretical models have long predicted the existence of shocks in multi-transonic accretion flows onto a black hole, yet their fate under realistic general relativistic simulations has not been fully tested. In this study, we present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Indu K. Dihingia , Akhil Uniyal , Yosuke Mizuno

Understanding the dynamics of low angular momentum accretion flow around black holes (BHs) is essential for probing extreme plasma behavior in strong gravity, where shock formation can naturally produce variability signatures. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Jirong Mao , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Shigehiro Nagataki

We simulate shock-free and shocked viscous accretion flow onto a black hole in a two dimensional cylindrical geometry, where initial conditions were chosen from analytical solutions. The simulation code used the Lagrangian Total Variation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Seong-Jae Lee , Indranil Chattopadhyay , Rajiv Kumar , Siek Hyung , Dongsu Ryu

Analytical studies and numerical simulations of time dependent axially symmetric flows onto black holes have shown that it is possible to produce stationary shock waves with a stable position both for ideal inviscid and for moderately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Diego Molteni , Gabor Toth , Oleg A. Kuznetsov

We consider stationary, axisymmetric hydrodynamic accretion flows in Kerr geometry. As a plausible means of efficiently separating a small population of nonthermal particles from the bulk accretion flows, we investigate the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas

The study of a disturbed accretion disk holds great significance in the realm of astrophysics, as such events play a crucial role in revealing the nature of disk structure, the release of energy, and the generation of shock waves.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-04 Orhan Donmez

Discerning the likelihood of the so-called runaway instability of thick accretion disks orbiting black holes is an important issue for most models of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. To this aim we investigate this phenomenon by means of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose A. Font , Frederic Daigne
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