The Cooling Flow to Accretion Flow Transition

The Cooling Flow to Accretion Flow Transition

Cooling flows in galaxy clusters and isolated elliptical galaxies are a source of mass for fueling accretion onto a central supermassive black hole. We calculate the dynamics of accreting matter in the combined gravitational potential of a host galaxy and a central black hole assuming a steady state, spherically symmetric flow (i.e., no angular momentum). The global dynamics depends primarily o...

Evaporation of Accretion Disks around Black Holes: The Disk-Corona Transition and the Connection to the Advection-dominated Accretion Flow.

We apply the disk-corona evaporation model (Meyer & Meyer-Hofmeister) originally derived for dwarf novae to black hole systems. This model describes the transition of a thin cool outer disk to a hot coronal flow. The mass accretion rate determines the location of this transition. For a number of well-studied black hole binaries, we take the mass flow rates derived from a fit of the advection-do...

The study of Hydrodynamical wind on the observational properties of magnetized accretion flow with thermal conduction

Hypercritical Advection Dominated Accretion Flow

In this note we study the accretion disc that arises in hypercritical accretion of Ṁ ∼ 10 MEdd onto a neutron star while it is in common envelope evolution with a massive companion. Such a study was carried out by Chevalier (1996), who had earlier suggested that the neutron star would go into a black hole in common envelope evolution. In his later study he found that the accretion could possibl...

Visual Observation of Flow Regime Transition in Downward Vertical Gas-Liquid Flow Using Simple Mixer

Different flow patterns of downward gas-liquid two-phaseflow using simple mixer are studied in an experimental manner. An experimental setup is designed and fabricated to allow the visual observation of downward two-phase flow patterns and their transitions. The flow patterns are recorded by a 1200 frames per second high speed video camera. The quality of downward two-phase flow patterns photos...