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Accretion Discs in AGN, Viscosity and Structure of Accretion Disks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2011
Abstract
Early, it has been suggested that Keplerian flows should be unstable regarding shear instabilities. This hypothesis, not seriously considered nowadays, is strongly sustained by a recent re-analysis of experimental data on shear flows and new laboratory experiments. We review some consequences on steady state accretion dises of a viscosity law derived from shear experiments. In particular, we show that it wholly suppresses the thermal and viscous instabilities within the radiation pressure dominated region, unlike the standard theory.
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- European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 1: AGN in their cosmic environment , 2001 , pp. 53 - 61
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- © EAS, EDP Sciences 2002