Journal article

Turbulent Energy Transport in Nonradiative Accretion Flows

Abstract:

Just as correlations between fluctuating radial and azimuthal velocities produce a coherent stress contributing to the angular momentum transport in turbulent accretion disks, correlations in the velocity and temperature fluctuations produce a coherent energy flux. This nonadvective energy flux is always of secondary importance in thin radiative disks, but cannot be neglected in nonradiative flows, in which it completes the mean field description of turbulence. It is, nevertheless, generally ...

Publication status:
Published

Publisher copy:
10.1086/379874

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
Role:
Author
Journal:
Astrophys.J.
Volume:
600
Issue:
2
Pages:
865-871
Publication date:
2003-06-09
DOI:
EISSN:
1538-4357
ISSN:
0004-637X
Source identifiers:
333931
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Deposit date:
2014-12-26