Three-dimensional structure of an alpha accretion disk
Abstract
An analytic solution is presented to the three-dimensional problem of steady axisymmetric fluid flow through an accretion disk. The solution has been obtained through a systematic expansion in the small parameter epsilon =H/R (the ratio of disk thickness to its radial dimension) of the equations of viscous hydrodynamics. The equation of state was assumed to be polytropic. For all values alpha< 0.685 of the viscosity parameter, we find significant backflow in the midplane of the disk occuring at all radii larger than a certain value; however, in the inner regions of the disk the fluid always flows toward the accreting object. The region of backflow is separated from the region of inflow by a surface flaring outwards from a circular locus of stagnation points situated in the midplane of the disk.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0006266,
title = {Three-dimensional structure of an alpha accretion disk},
author = {W. Kluzniak and D. Kita},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0006266},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
39 pages (incl. fig. captions), 11 figs. (PDF). This is the verbatim text of a ms submitted to the Astrophysical Journal in 1997