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Hydrodynamic Simulations of Wind-Accretion with Gradients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Ruffert
M. Ruffert*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Postfach 1523, D–85740 Garching, Germany

Abstract

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I investigate the hydrodynamics of three-dimensional Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion including velocity and density gradients in the incoming flow and determine how much angular momentum is accreted. A medium taken to be an ideal gas with an adiabatic index of 5/3 or 4/3 moves at supersonic speeds (Mach 3 and 10) past a totally absorbing sphere with a radius of 0.1 or 0.02 accretion radii. The velocity within the medium is given a gradient of 3% or 20% (over one accretion radius). I find that a substantial amount (0.1 to 0.7) of the specific angular momentum available within one accretion radius in the upstream flow actually is accreted. The amount is smaller for smaller accretor sizes. The flow is roughly just as unstable as in the previous models without gradients. The unstable flow is best seen in animated sequences.

Type
Part 5. Magnetic Fields and Viscosity
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 163: Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows , 1997 , pp. 215 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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