Three-dimensional structure of an alpha accretion disk

Details Three-dimensional structure of an alpha accretion disk Three-dimensional structure of an alpha accretion disk

2000-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0006266v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

39 pages (incl. fig. captions), 11 figs. (PDF). This is the verbatim text of a ms submitted to the Astrophysical Journal in 19

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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.

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