scholarly journals Magnetic Field Reconnection in Differentially Rotating Accretion Disks

1985 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 477-482
Author(s):  
David Gilden ◽  
T. Tajima

Differentially rotating accretion disks threaded by a uniform magnetic field have been numerically simulated. Fast reconnection followed by coalescence allows the magnetic field to drive small amplitude radial oscillations in the disk. These oscillations may be observable as the viscous stresses cause the disk to brighten and fade as the disk expands and contracts. Episodes of reconnection may also be observable as hot spots produced locally at the sites of coalescence. Cataclysmic variables, and in particular dwarf novae, provide a natural interpretation for these calculations.

The stability of viscous flow between two coaxial cylinders maintained by a constant transverse pressure gradient is considered when the fluid is an electrical conductor and a uniform magnetic field is impressed in the axial direction. The problem is solved and the dependence of the critical number for the onset of instability on the strength of the magnetic field and the coefficient of electrical conductivity of the fluid is determined.


Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 467
Author(s):  
Fayçal Hammad ◽  
Alexandre Landry ◽  
Parvaneh Sadeghi

The relativistic wave equation for spin-1/2 particles in the interior Schwarzschild solution in the presence of a uniform magnetic field is obtained. The fully relativistic regime is considered, and the energy levels occupied by the particles are derived as functions of the magnetic field, the radius of the massive sphere and the total mass of the latter. As no assumption is made on the relative strengths of the particles’ interaction with the gravitational and magnetic fields, the relevance of our results to the physics of the interior of neutron stars, where both the gravitational and the magnetic fields are very intense, is discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 09006
Author(s):  
Alexander Tyatyushkin

Small steady-state deformational oscillations of a drop of magnetic liquid in a nonstationary uniform magnetic field are theoretically investigated. The drop is suspended in another magnetic liquid immiscible with the former. The Reynolds number is so small that the inertia can be neglected. The variation of the magnetic field is so slow that the quasi-stationary approximation for the magnetic field and the quasi-steady approximation for the flow may be used.


Author(s):  
Rajesh Nimmagadda ◽  
Durga Prakash Matta ◽  
Rony Reuven ◽  
Lazarus Godson Asirvatham ◽  
Somchai Wongwises ◽  
...  

Abstract A 2D numerical investigation has been carried out to obtain the heat transfer performance of hybrid (Al2O3 + Ag) nanofluid in a lid driven cavity over solid block under the influence of uniform as well as non-uniform magnetic field. The geometrical domain consists of a cavity containing nanofluid that is driven by means of lid moving in one direction. This circulating nanofluid will extract enormous amount of heat from the solid block underneath the cavity resulting in conjugate heat transfer. A homogenous solver based on the finite volume method with conjugate heat transfer was developed and adopted in the existing study. The heat efficient hybrid nanofluid (HyNF) pair (2.4 vol.% Ag + 0.6 vol.% Al2O3) obtained by Nimmagadda and Venkatasubbaiah [1] is used in the present investigation. Moreover, efficient non-uniform sinusoidal magnetic field identified by Nimmagadda et al. [2] is also implemented and compared with uniform magnetic field. Furthermore, the magnetic field is applied over the geometrical domain along the two axial directions separately and the effective heat transfer performance is obtained. The significant impact of extensive parameters like Reynolds number, nanoparticle type, nanoparticle concentration, magnetic field type, magnetic field location and the strength of the magnetic field on heat transfer performance are systematically analyzed and presented.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (09) ◽  
pp. 2050067
Author(s):  
Hanifeh Ghanbarnejad ◽  
Maryam Ghasemnezhad

In this paper, we study the self-gravitating accretion disks by considering the toroidal component of magnetic field, [Formula: see text] and wind/outflow in the flow and also investigate the effect of two parameters, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] corresponding to magnetic field on the latitudinal structure of such accretion disks. The cooling of the disk is parameterized simply as, [Formula: see text] (where [Formula: see text] is the internal energy and [Formula: see text] is the cooling timescale and [Formula: see text] is a free constant) and the heating rate is decomposed into two components, magnetic field and viscosity dissipations. We have shown that when the toroidal magnetic field becomes stronger, the heating process (viscous and resistivity) and the radiative cooling rate increase. Ohmic heating is much bigger than viscous heating and cooling, so we must consider the role of the magnetic field in the energy equation. Our numerical solutions show that the thickness of the disk decreases with strong toroidal component of magnetic field. The magnetic field leads to production of the outflow in the low latitude. So, by increasing the toroidal component of the magnetic field, the regions which belong to inflow decrease and the disk is cooled.


1990 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 228-235
Author(s):  
J.E. Drew

The disks referred to in the title of this paper are specifically those present in cataclysmic variables in which the accreting white dwarf has a relatively weak magnetic field (≪ 1 MG). Such systems are classified either as nova-like variables or as dwarf novae, and are of interest here because they are believed to be novae in quiescence (Ritter and Livio discuss this point elsewhere in this volume).This review aims to do two things: i) to summarise what has been learned about the winds associated with non-magnetic cataclysmic variables both from observation and from numerical modelling, and ii) to outline ideas about the nature of the mass loss mechanism. By contrast with the certainty that nova outflows are the consequence of thermonuclear runaway, it shall be seen that the fundamental cause of mass loss from cataclysmic variables remains obscure. An earlier review of this subject is by Cordova and Howarth (1986). Also of interest are some sections of the monograph on dwarf novae and nova-like variables by LaDous (1989).


2013 ◽  
Vol 770 ◽  
pp. 374-377
Author(s):  
Apichart Sankote ◽  
Kheamrutai Thamaphat ◽  
Supanee Limsuwan

In this work, a method to measuring the magnitude of a uniform magnetic field in space using current balance was described. A simple experimental set was designed and constructed using low-cost materials. This constructed current balance consists of copper sheet, weight pan, and acrylic sheet. A copper sheet was cut into a U-shape and attached at the end of acrylic balance arm. A weight pan was hanged in the opposite side of the balance arm with high sensitivity to a small torque. The horizontal segment of the U-shaped copper sheet, which the length l was 3 cm, was located inside the influence of an uniform magnetic field produced by two parallel bar magnets with opposite poles facing each other. The magnetic field direction was perpendicular to the horizontal segment. When a current was supplied to the copper sheet, the magnetic force acting on a horizontal segment of length l carrying a current I in a magnetic field B was given by. In the experiment, the current was varied from 0 1 A. For each value of applied current, the magnetic force on a thin straight sheet of length l was measured by adding masses to the pan until the balance arm moved to the equilibrium between opposing gravitational and magnetic forces. The results showed that the magnetic force increased linearly with increasing applied current. By plotting a linear graph of magnetic force versus applied current, the magnetic field B can be calculated from . The calculated and actual values of B were 100.32 and 100.13 mT, respectively. This constructed current balance is an excellent tool for high school and undergraduate fundamental physics courses. Students will be excited when they see the balance arm rising or going down due to magnitude and direction of current flowing in a conductor wire.


1963 ◽  
Vol 18 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 889-895
Author(s):  
F. Schwirzke

The radial density distribution for a plasma in a uniform magnetic field was studied in dependence of pressure and distance of the conducting end plates. It was possible to confirm experimentally the dependence of the radial distribution of the finite length in direction of the field lines. The influence of the magnetic field, of the pressure, and of the length of the plasma column on the radial density profile is, in different gases, qualitatively in accordance with the “short-circuiting” theory of A. SIMON.


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