3D Finite Volume Simulation of Accretion Discs with Spiral Shocks

Details 3D Finite Volume Simulation of Accretion Discs with Spiral Shocks 3D Finite Volume Simulation of Accretion Discs with Spiral Shocks

1998-07-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807237v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, LaTeX with 2 ps figures using crckapb.sty. To appear in the Proceedings of Numerical Astrophysics 1998, Tokyo, Japan,

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We perform 2D and 3D numerical simulations of an accretion disc in a close binary system using the Simplified Flux vector Splitting (SFS) finite volume method. In our calculations, gas is assumed to be the ideal one, and we calculate the cases with gamma=1.01, 1.05, 1.1 and 1.2. The mass ratio of the mass losing star to the mass accreting star is unity. Our results show that spiral shocks are formed on the accretion disc in all cases. In 2D calculations we find that the smaller gamma is, the more tightly the spiral winds. We observe this trend in 3D calculations as well in somewhat weaker sense.

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