Non-axisymmetric Instabilities in Self-Gravitating Tori around Black Holes, and Solving Einstein Constraints with Superconvergent Finite Element Methods
This thesis contains results on two related projects. In the first project, we explore non-axisymmetric instabilities in general relativistic accretion disks around black holes. Such disks are created as transient structures in several astrophysical scenarios, including mergers of compact objects an...
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LSU
2010
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11122010-153530/ |