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We present self-similar solutions for advection -dominated accretion flows with thermal conduction in the presence of outflows. Possible effects of outflows on the accretion flow are parametrized and a saturated form of thermal conduction,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mohsen Shadmehri

Accretion disk instabilities are briefly reviewed. Some details are given to the short-wavelength thermal instabilities and the convective instabilities. Time-dependent calculations of two-dimensional advection-dominated accretion flows are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xingming Chen

We analyze three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a nonradiative accretion flow around a black hole using a pseudo-Newtonian potential. The flow originates from a torus initially centered at 100 gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John F. Hawley , Steven A. Balbus

We study the axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric, time-dependent hydrodynamics of gas that is under the influence of the gravity of a super massive black hole (SMBH) and the radiation force produced by a radiatively efficient flow accreting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ryuichi Kurosawa , Daniel Proga

We report on the fourth phase of our study of slightly rotating accretion flows onto black holes. The main new element of this study is that we used fully three dimensional (3-D) numerical simulations. We consider hydrodynamics of inviscid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Agnieszka Janiuk , Daniel Proga , Ryuichi Kurosawa

We report on the second phase of our study of slightly rotating accretion flows onto black holes. We consider magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) accretion flows with a spherically symmetric density distribution at the outer boundary, but with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Proga , M. C. Begelman

We present the results of hydrodynamical simulations of nonaxisymmetric gas flow past a gravitating compact object in two dimensions. Calculations were performed with uniform flow as well as with transverse velocity and density gradients.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. S. Benensohn , D. Q. Lamb , R. E. Taam

We present a global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) three dimensional simulation of a nonradiative accretion flow originating in a pressure supported torus. The evolution is controlled by the magnetorotational instability which produces…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 John F. Hawley , Steven A. Balbus , James M. Stone

Cold accretion disks such as those in star-forming systems, quiescent cataclysmic variables, and some active galactic nuclei, are expected to have neutral gas which does not couple well to magnetic fields. The turbulent viscosity in such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Niayesh Afshordi , Ramesh Narayan

We study a slightly rotating accretion flow onto a black hole, using the fully three dimensional (3-D)numerical simulations. We consider hydrodynamics of an inviscid flow, assuming a spherically symmetric density distribution at the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Agnieszka Janiuk , Maciej Sznajder , Monika Moscibrodzka , Daniel Proga

Differentially rotating, "advection-dominated" accretion flows are considered in which the heat generated by viscous dissipation is retained in the fluid. The equations of time-dependent quasi-spherical accretion are solved in a simplified…

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

Numerical, two-dimensional, time-dependent hydrodynamical models of geometrically thick accretion discs around black holes are presented. Accretion flows with non-effective radiation cooling (ADAFs) can be both convectively stable or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Igor V. Igumenshchev

I present results from numerical simulations of gas dynamics outside luminous accretion disks in active galactic nuclei. The gas, gravitationally captured by a super massive black hole, can be driven away by the energy and momentum of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel Proga

Outflows and convective motions in accretion flows have been intensively discussed recently in the context of advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) based on two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical simulations. We,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mami Machida , Ryoji Matsumoto , and Shin Mineshige

We study the axisymmetric, time-dependent hydrodynamics of rotating flows that are under the influence of supermassive black hole gravity and radiation from an accretion disk surrounding the black hole. This work is an extension of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Proga , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Ryuichi Kurosawa

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

Motivated by the low-collisionality of gas accreted onto black holes in Sgr A* and other nearby galactic nuclei, we study a family of 2D advective accretion solutions with thermal conduction. While we only impose global inflow, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Takamitsu Tanaka , Kristen Menou

We examine how perturbed shear flows evolve in two-dimensional, incompressible, inviscid hydrodynamical fluids, with the ultimate goal of understanding the dynamics of accretion disks. To linear order, vorticity waves are swung around by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yoram Lithwick

Numerical simulations of hot accretion flows have shown that the mass accretion rate decreases with decreasing radius. Two models have been proposed to explain this result. In the adiabatic inflow-outflow solution (ADIOS), it is thought to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Feng Yuan , Defu Bu , Maochun Wu

To what extent can the one-dimensional slim disk model reproduce the multi-dimensional results of global radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of super-Eddington accretion? With this question in mind, we perform systematic simulation study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Takaaki Kitaki , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima