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We investigate the growth or decay rate of the fundamental mode of even symmetry in a viscous accretion disc. This mode occurs in eccentric discs and is known to be potentially overstable. We determine the vertical structure of the disc and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Henrik N. Latter , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Using a 2.5D time-dependent axisymmetric numerical code we recently developed, we solve the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations (including an alpha-viscosity prescription) to determine the structure of the boundary layer between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Dinshaw S. Balsara , Jacob Lund Fisker , Patrick Godon , Edward M. Sion

Disk accretion onto weakly magnetized objects possessing a material surface must proceed via the so-called boundary layer (BL) - a region at the inner edge of the disk, in which the velocity of accreting material abruptly decreases from its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Matthew S. B. Coleman , Roman R. Rafikov , Alexander A. Philippov

We construct models of the inner part of a transonic adiabatic accretion disc assuming constant specific angular momentum taking the vertical structure fully into account.\\ For comparison purposes, we construct the corresponding one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. C. B. Papaloizou , E. Szuszkiewicz

The effect of viscosity and thermal conduction on the acoustics in a shear layer above an impedance wall is investigated numerically and asymptotically by solving the compressible linearised Navier-Stokes equations. It is found that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-06 Doran Khamis , Edward James Brambley

Layered accretion is one of the inevitable ingredients in protoplanetary disks when disk turbulence is excited by magnetorotational instabilities (MRIs). In the accretion, disk surfaces where MRIs fully operate have a high value of disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Taku Takeuchi

We find the Green's functions for the accretion disk with the fixed outer radius and time-independent viscosity. With the Green's functions, a viscous evolution of the disk with any initial conditions can be described. Two types of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-11 Galina V. Lipunova

We aim to examine the detailed disc structure that arises in a misaligned binary system as a function of the disc aspect ratio h, viscosity parameter alpha, disc outer radius R, and binary inclination angle gamma_F. We also aim to examine…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Moritz Fragner , Richard Nelson

The collapse of interstellar gaseous clouds towards a protostar leads to the formation of accretion disks around the central star. Such disks can be dynamically stable if they settle in an axisymmetric state. In this letter, we investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-07 Florian Ragossnig , Lukas Gehrig , Ernst A. Dorfi , Daniel Steiner , Alexander Stökl

We investigated the boundary between stable and unstable regimes of accretion and its dependence on different parameters. Simulations were performed using a "cubed sphere" code with high grid resolution (244 grid points in the azimuthal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. A. Blinova , R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova

This paper discusses new perspectives and approaches to the problem of disk dynamics where, in this study, we focus on the effects of viscous instabilities influenced by boundary effects. The Boussinesq approximation of the viscous large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. M. Umurhan , G. Shaviv

Disk accretion onto stars leads to the formation of a Boundary Layer (BL) near the stellar surface where the disk makes contact with the star. Albeit a large fraction of the total luminosity of the system originates from this tiny layer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-06 Marius Hertfelder , Wilhelm Kley , Valery Suleimanov , Klaus Werner

In a novel approach to studying viscous accretion flows, viscosity has been introduced as a perturbative effect, involving a first-order correction in the $\alpha$-viscosity parameter. This method reduces the problem of solving a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee , Atri Bhattacharya , Tapas K. Das , Arnab K. Ray

We show that the standard model for geometrically thin accretion disks (alpha-disks) leads to inconsistencies if selfgravity plays a role. This problem arises from the parametrization of viscosity in terms of local sound velocity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. Duschl , Peter A. Strittmatter , Peter L. Biermann

Disk accretion onto a weakly magnetized central object, e.g. a star, is inevitably accompanied by the formation of a boundary layer near the surface, in which matter slows down from the highly supersonic orbital velocity of the disk to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mikhail A. Belyaev , Roman R. Rafikov , James M. Stone

We study the nonlinear dynamics of a warped or twisted accretion disc, in which the viscosity coefficients are assumed to be locally proportional to the rotational velocity (beta- prescription). Using asymptotic methods for thin discs,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ghanbari , M. Shadmehri , F. Salehi

In many cases accretion proceeds from disks onto planets, stars, white dwarfs, and neutron stars via a boundary layer, a region of intense shear where gas transitions from a near-Keplerian speed to that of the surface. These regions are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-03 Alexander J. Dittmann

The observed variability of X-ray binaries over a wide range of time-scales can be understood in the framework of a stochastic propagation model, where viscous fluctuations at different radii induce accretion rate variability that propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-18 Naveel Ahmad , Ranjeev Misra , Naseer Iqbal , Bari Maqbool , Mubashir Hamid

Consider the dynamics of a layer of viscous incompressible fluid under the influence of gravity. The upper boundary is a free boundary with the effect of surface tension taken into account, and the lower boundary is a fixed boundary on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Yanjin Wang , Zhouping Xin

In earlier works we pointed out that the disk's surface layers are non-turbulent and thus highly conducting (or non-diffusive) because the hydrodynamic and/or magnetorotational (MRI) instabilities are suppressed high in the disk where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace
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