Effect of Coriolis force on Accretion Flows around Rotating Compact Object
Abstract
Using the generalised set of fluid equations that include the `Coriolis force' along with the centrifugal and pressure gradient forces, we have reanalysed the class of self similar solutions, with the pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find that the class of solutions is well behaved for almost the entire parameter space except for a few selected combinations of and for the co-rotating flow. The analysis of the Bernoulli number shows that whereas it remains positive for co-rotating flow for , for the counter-rotating flow it does admit both positive and negative values, indicating the possibility of energy transfer in either direction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0107119,
title = {Effect of Coriolis force on Accretion Flows around Rotating Compact Object},
author = {A. R. Prasanna and Banibrata Mukhopadhyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0107119},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 Latex pages including 10 figures; World Scientific Style; to appear in 'International Journal of Modern Physics D'