Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Aug 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988mnras.233..529w&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 233, Aug. 1, 1988, p. 529-551. Research supported by th
Statistics
Computation
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Accretion Disks, Compressible Flow, Computational Astrophysics, Digital Simulation, Dwarf Novae, Mass Transfer, Computer Programs, Equations Of Motion, Mathematical Models, Runge-Kutta Method, Tidal Waves
Scientific paper
A novel numerical simulation scheme designed to calculate compressible gas-flows in accretion discs is described. This is then applied to the study of accretion disc behaviour in the wake of a mass-transfer burst in a dwarf nova system. The disc is predicted to be dominated by tidal forces throughout much of the outburst-quiescent cycle. These results are, however, found to be incompatible with the observations of the dwarf novae SS Cygni and U Geminorum in outburst. This is interpreted as evidence against the simple mass-transfer burst model of dwarf novae outbursts and instead as indirect evidence for the variation in viscosity between quiescence and outburst.
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