Numerical Simulation of Viscous Shocked Accretion Flows Around Black Holes

Numerical Simulation of Viscous Shocked Accretion Flows Around Black Holes
Author: Kinsuk Giri
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2014-08-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319095404

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The work developed in this thesis addresses very important and relevant issues of accretion processes around black holes. Beginning by studying the time variation of the evolution of inviscid accretion discs around black holes and their properties, the author investigates the change of the pattern of the flows when the strength of the shear viscosity is varied and cooling is introduced. He succeeds to verify theoretical predictions of the so called Two Component Advective Flow (TCAF) solution of the accretion problem onto black holes through numerical simulations under different input parameters. TCAF solutions are found to be stable. And thus explanations of spectral and timing properties (including Quasi-Period Oscillations, QPOs) of galactic and extra-galactic black holes based on shocked TCAF models appear to have a firm foundation.

Computational Mathematics, Nanoelectronics, and Astrophysics

Computational Mathematics, Nanoelectronics, and Astrophysics
Author: Shaibal Mukherjee
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9811597081

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This book is a collection of original papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Mathematics in Nanoelectronics and Astrophysics (CMNA 2018) held at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, from 1 to 3 November 2018. It aims at presenting recent developments of computational mathematics in nanoelectronics, astrophysics and related areas of space sciences and engineering. These proceedings discuss the most advanced innovations, trends and real-world challenges encountered and their solutions with the application of computational mathematics in nanoelectronics, astrophysics and space sciences. From focusing on nano-enhanced smart technological developments to the research contributions of premier institutes in India and abroad on ISRO’s future space explorations—this book includes topics from highly interdisciplinary areas of research. The book is of interest to researchers, students and practising engineers working in diverse areas of science and engineering, ranging from applied and computational mathematics to nanoelectronics, nanofabrications and astrophysics.

Exploring the Universe: From Near Space to Extra-Galactic

Exploring the Universe: From Near Space to Extra-Galactic
Author: Banibrata Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319946072

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This Festschrift dedicated to the 60th birth anniversary of Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti, a well-known Indian astrophysicist, presents a collection of contributions by about fifty scientists who work on diverse topics in contemporary astrophysics and space science including new and low-cost balloon borne experiments, planetary science, astrochemistry and the origin of life, ionospheric research and earthquake predictions, relativistic astrophysics around black holes, and finally, the observational signatures and radiative properties of compact objects. All the authors are well known scholars in their respective subject and are all PhD students of Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti. The book demonstrates a two-dimensional evolution of research areas triggered by Sandip Chakrabarti over the past few decades. The first dimension represents the evolution and diversification of Chakrabarti’s own research in which new students were trained. A second dimension arises from the evolution of the research topics pursued by Chakrabarti’s fifty odd doctoral students, many of whom have become renowned scientists in their own right, after starting with a certain subject under Chakrabarti and then migrating to completely new subjects with dexterity. The editors have compiled and edited the articles appropriately to some extent to suit the spirit of this Festschrift on the one hand and to keep balance in diverse topics on the other. Thus this volume also provides an overview for whosoever wishes to enter the important subjects of compact objects, astrochemistry, ionospheric science or space exploration in near space. New graduates, PhD scholars, teachers and researchers will benefit from this volume. Moreover it is a record of tremendous success of a school in a range of vast topics.

Black Hole Accretion Dynamics in Numerical Simulations

Black Hole Accretion Dynamics in Numerical Simulations
Author: Kenneth B. Henisey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 9781267020055

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Light curves from accreting black hole systems exhibit variability which has neither been conclusively explained by analytic models nor seen in numerical simulations of these flows. Until recently, these computational studies have uniformly assumed alignment between the angular momenta of a black hole and its accretion disk. In contrast, observational data suggests that these tilted configurations may exist in real astrophysical systems and theoretical work indicates that tilt is accompanied by disk eccentricity and warp capable of exciting trapped diskoseismological modes. This dissertation analyzes the spatial and temporal behavior of fluid in fully three-dimensional, general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamical simulations, the first of their kind, of both tilted and untilted black hole accretion flows. We uncover characteristically greater variability in tilted simulations at frequencies similar to those predicted by the formalism of trapped modes, but ultimately conclude that its spatial structure is inconsistent with a modal interpretation. We find instead that over-dense clumps orbiting on roughly Keplerian trajectories appear generically in our global simulations independent of tilt and that these blobs give rise to acoustic wakes inside and outside of their corotation radius. Our three dimensional analysis of the flow yields two additional results. First, we confirm the strongly asymmetric nature of the tilted configuration by further describing two previously identified standing shock structures in the background flow; second, we show that these shocks effectively amplify the blob-wake variability and thus explain the increased variability observed in our tilted datasets. Our identification of clumps, wakes, and wake-shock interactions in these tilted, fully general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamical simulations will certainly be relevant to those models which incorporate tilt as a way to explain the observed variability in black hole accretion flow.

Numerical Simulation of Viscous Accretion Disks

Numerical Simulation of Viscous Accretion Disks
Author: Ronald Drimmel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780530003689

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Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Numerical Simulation of Viscous Accretion Disks" by Ronald Eugene Drimmel, was obtained from University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.

The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes

The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes
Author: Maurizio Falanga
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1493922270

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Provides a comprehensive summary on the physical models and current theory of black hole accretion, growth and mergers, in both the supermassive and stellar-mass cases. This title reviews in-depth research on accretion on all scales, from galactic binaries to intermediate mass and supermassive black holes. Possible future directions of accretion are also discussed. The following main themes are covered: a historical perspective; physical models of accretion onto black holes of all masses; black hole fundamental parameters; and accretion, jets and outflows. An overview and outlook on the topic is also presented. This volume summarizes the status of the study of astrophysical black hole research and is aimed at astrophysicists and graduate students working in this field. Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Vol 183/1-4, 2014.

Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics

Black Hole Gravitohydromagnetics
Author: Brian Punsly
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2008-12-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540769579

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Black hole gravitohydromagnetics (GHM) is developed from the rudiments to the frontiers of research in this book. GHM describes plasma interactions that combine the effects of gravity and a strong magnetic field, in the vicinity (ergosphere) of a rapidly rotating black hole. This topic was created in response to the astrophysical quest to understand the central engines of radio loud extragalactic radio sources. The theory describes a "torsional tug of war" between rotating ergospheric plasma and the distant asymptotic plasma that extracts the rotational inertia of the black hole. The recoil from the struggle between electromagnetic and gravitational forces near the event horizon is manifested as a powerful pair of magnetized particle beams (jets) that are ejected at nearly the speed of light. This second edition of the book is updated throughout and contains a completely new chapter discussing state of the art and results of numerical simulations of ergospheric disk jets occurring in magnetohydrodynamic accretion flows.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1995
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.