Non-spherical Radiation-Driven Wind Models

Radiation driven wind models for A, F and G supergiants

We investigate the effects of radiation pressure on the atmospheres of A, F and G-supergiants by calculating hydrodynamical model atmospheres for stars with 5500 ≤ Teff ≤ 9500 K. In the subsonic part of the wind, the radiation pressure by continuum and lines from Kurucz (1992) is taken into account. In the supersonic part of the wind, the radiation pressure is expressed in terms of the force mu...

On resonance line profiles predicted by radiation driven disk wind models

We report on resonance line profiles predicted by radiation driven disk wind models which extend radially one order of magnitude farther out than our previous models. Our main result is that the inclusion of a disk wind at larger radii changes qualitatively and quantitatively the line profiles predicted by the models. Our new models predict line absorption that is significantly stronger than th...

Non - Spherical Stellar Models of Compact Stars

Non-Fourier Heat Transfer Analysis of Functionally Graded Spherical Shells under Convection-Radiation Conditions

Non-Fourier heat transfer analysis of functionally graded (FG) spherical shells subjected to the radiative-convective boundary conditions at their inner and outer surfaces are presented. It is assumed that the material properties have continuous variations along the thickness direction. The incremental differential quadrature method (IDQM) as an accurate and computationally efficient numerical ...

Radiation-Driven Warping. II. Non-Isothermal Disks

Recent work by Pringle and by Maloney, Begelman & Pringle has shown that geometrically thin, optically thick, accretion disks are unstable to warping driven by radiation torque from the central source. This work was confined to isothermal (i.e., surface density Σ ∝ R−3/2) disks. In this paper we generalize the study of radiation-driven warping to include general power-law surface density distri...