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We present global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of accretion disks with a strong toroidal magnetic field using an equation of state that fixes the gas thermal scale height. The disk forms from the inflow of a rotating magnetized gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Minghao Guo , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire , Philip F. Hopkins , James M. Stone

The existence of outflow in accretion flows is confirmed by observations and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations. In this paper, we study outflows of accretion flows in the presence of resistivity and toroidal magnetic field. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei , Azam Mollatayefeh

Self-similar and semi-analytical solutions are found for the height-averaged equations govern the dynamical behavior of a polytropic, self-gravitating disk under the effects of winds, around the nascent object. In order to describe time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shahram Abbassi , Erfan Nourbakhsh , Mohsen Shadmehri

We numerically investigate the hydrodynamics of accretion disk reversal and relate our findings to the observed spin-rate changes in the accreting X-ray pulsar GX~1+4. In this system, which accretes from a slow wind, the accretion disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James R. Murray , Martijn de Kool , Jianke Li

Observational evidence accumulated over the past decade indicates that accretion discs in X-ray binaries are viscously stable unless they accrete very close to the Eddington limit. This is at odds with the most basic standard accretion disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Merloni , S. Nayakshin

Recently, gas giant planets in nearly circular orbits with large semimajor axes ($a \sim$ 30--1000AU) have been detected by direct imaging. We have investigated orbital evolution in a formation scenario for such planets, based on core…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Kikuchi , A. Higuchi , S. Ida

We use three-dimensional high-resolution adaptive-mesh-refinement simulations to investigate if mechanical feedback from active galactic nucleus jets can halt a massive cooling flow in a galaxy cluster and give rise to a self-regulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Cattaneo , R. Teyssier

In this article an analytical solution of equations of motion of a rigid disk of finite thickness rolling on its edge on a perfectly rough horizontal plane under the action of gravity is given. The solution is given in terms of Gauss…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Milan Batista

We obtain self-similar solutions that describe the dynamics of a self-gravitating, rotating, viscous system. We use simplifying assumptions; but explicitly include viscosity and the cooling due to the dissipation of energy. By assuming that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mohsen Shadmehri , Jamshid Ghanbari

Early in the study of viscous accretion disks it was realized that energy transfers from distant sources must be important, not least because the flow at the disk midplane in the bulk of the disk is likely outwards, out of the gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-15 Alexander Hubbard , Colin P. McNally , Jeffrey S. Oishi , Wladimir Lyra , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

The dynamics of a viscous accretion disc subject to a slowly varying warp of large amplitude is considered. Attention is restricted to discs in which self-gravitation is negligible, and to the generic case in which the resonant wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. I. Ogilvie

In this chapter, we review some of the interesting consequences that tilt between the spin axis of the black hole and angular momentum axis of the accretion disk can have on the dynamics, thermodynamics, and observational appearance of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 P. Chris Fragile , Matthew Liska

The source of viscosity in astrophysical accretion flows is still a hotly debated issue. We investigate the contribution of convective turbulence to the total viscosity in a self-consistent approach, where the strength of convection is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Dominikus Heinzeller , Wolfgang J. Duschl , Shin Mineshige

We perform global three-dimensional simulations of accretion disks integrating the compressible, non-viscous, but diffusive MHD equations. The disk is supposed to be isothermal. We make use of the ZEUS-3D code integrating the MHD equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Arlt , G. Rudiger

In order to be in a long-lived configuration, the density in a fluid disk should be constant along streamlines to prevent compressional (PdV) work from being done cyclically around every orbit. In a pure Kepler potential, flow along…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. S. Statler

The model of a geometrically thin gaseous disk in the external gravitational potential is considered. The dinamics of small nonaxisymmetric perturbations in the plane of the accretion disk with dissipative effects is investigated. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. V. Khoperskov , S. S. Khrapov

Origin of turbulence in cold accretion disks, particularly in 3D, which is expected to be hydrodynamic but not magnetohydrodynamic, is a big puzzle. While the flow must exhibit some turbulence in support of the transfer of mass inward and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We carry out the effect of $\beta$-prescription for viscosity which introduced by Duschel et al. 2000 & Hure, Richard & Zhan 2001, in a standard self-gravitating thin disks. We were predicted in a self-gravitating thin disk the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-19 Shahram Abbassi , Jamshid Ghanbari , Fatemeh Salehi

Accretion discs are fundamental to many astrophysical systems, providing the conversion of gravitational potential energy into radiation that we can observe. In many systems there is evidence that discs are warped; from spatially-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Chris Nixon , Jim Pringle

We discuss a model for the central region of radio-quiet AGN in which coronal accretion is the source of energy for X-ray emission. We start from the Haardt & Maraschi model but supplement it with pressure balance condition, two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. T. Zycki , S. Collin-Souffrin , B. Czerny