Disks in Cataclysmic Variables

• Description

  A Test-Calculation concerning the Evolution of an Accretion Disk in a Cataclysmic Binary has been designed.
  

  A brief description of the setup of the model is given HERE.

  The model is based on the paper by Heemskeerk:
  Hydrodynamic Calculations of accretion discs in close binaries. The superhump phenomenon.
  1994, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 288, 807-818. ( ADS-Link)

• Results (using old Setup)

  Grid-Code I: RH2D, Monotonic Transport (Kley)
  Grid-Code II: ZEUS (Artur Gawryszczak, Warsaw)
  FMM-Code: Finite Mass Method (Markus Klingler)
  SPH-Code: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (Stefan Kunze)
  

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• Results (using New Setup, initial ring-like density)

  Grid-Code: RH2D, Monotonic Transport (Kley, Jan 14th 2003)
  

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Last modified: January 14th, 2003