3D SPH Simulations of Shocks in Accretion Flows around black holes

Details 3D SPH Simulations of Shocks in Accretion Flows around black holes 3D SPH Simulations of Shocks in Accretion Flows around black holes

2005-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501549v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 22 figures

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We present the simulation of 3D time dependent flow of rotating ideal gas falling into a Schwarzschild black hole. It is shown that also in the 3D case steady shocks are formed in a wide range of parameters (initial angular momentum and thermal energy). We therefore highlight the stability of the phenomenon of shock formation in sub keplerian flows onto black holes, and reenforce the role of the shocks in the high luminosity emission from black hole candidates. The simulations have been performed using a parallelized code based on the Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics method (SPH). We also discuss some properties of the shock problem that allow its use as a quantitative test of the accuracy of the used numerical method. This shows that the accuracy of SPH is acceptable although not excellent.

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