GFD Prospects in Astrophysical Hydrodynamics: Accretion as an Exemplar

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May 2002

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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #A42A-17

Physics

7599 General Or Miscellaneous, 7863 Turbulence

Scientific paper

This short review highlights some open questions regarding the dynamics of accretion normal accreting binary systems (those with non-compact components) and novae for which might be of interest to geophysical fluiddynamicists. Standard disk theory has been quite successful in cataclysmics, protostellar thick disks, and active galactic nuclei, but our understanding of relatively normal accretion flows and mixing at the stellar-disk interface remains less satisfactory. Some problems that remain unanswered include the treatment of the Roche surface as a limiting radius, the structure of Algol disks and viscous accretion -- including Rossby vortices and waves -- and boundary layer. Significant problems include viscous heating, formation of coherent structures and their effect on dynamo activity, generation of jet outflows, and multiphase media in neutral or low ionization disks.

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