Origin of Instability and Plausible Turbulence in Astrophysical Accretion Disks and Rayleigh-stable Flows

Accretion disks are ubiquitous in astrophysics. They are found in active galactic nuclei, around newly formed stars, around compact stellar objects, like black holes, neutron stars etc. When the ambient matter with sufficient initial angular momentum falls towards a central massive object, forming...

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Main Author: Nath, Sujit Kumar
Other Authors: Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
Language:en_US
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/2886
http://etd.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/abstracts/3748/G27751-Abs.pdf