A numerical solution of the dynamical instability of a thin accretion torus
Abstract
We consider the non-axisymmetric, dynamical instability of a thin accretion torus with a non-zero shift of corotation radius. By numerical method we evaluated the wave number dependence of the linear rate of growth of instability and the co-rotation shift. The rate of growth is only slightly affected by the non-zero co-rotation shift, while the dispersion relation in the case of a shift is the same as that of the linear KdV equation. This shows that the "planet-like" solution found in numerical simulations of thin tori is very probably analogous to the soliton solution of the KdV equation.
- Publication:
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Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- February 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0275-1062(95)00067-3
- Bibcode:
- 1995ChA&A..19..507L
- Keywords:
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- ACCRETION DISK;
- DYNAMICAL INSTABILITY