Accretion Disks Phase Transitions: 2-D or not 2-D?

Preprint

7 April 2000

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0004106

Abstract

We argue that the proper way to treat thin-thick accretion-disk transitions should take into account the 2-D nature of the problem. We illustrate the physical inconsistency of the 1-D vertically integrated approach by discussing a particular example of the convective transport of energy.

Keywords

PHYSICAL INCONSISTENCY
VERTICALLY INTEGRATED
CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT
PHASE TRANSITIONS
DISK TRANSITIONS
THICK ACCRETION
ACCRETION DISKS
DISKS PHASE
TREAT THIN

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Version 1, 2000-04-07, ArXiv
Published version: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 52 (2), 295.

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