Browsing Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy by Subject "accretion disks"

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  • Spin alignment and differential accretion in merging black-hole binaries 

    Gerosa, D; Veronesi, B; Lodato, G; Rosotti, Giovanni Pietro (Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015-06-29)
    Interactions between a supermassive black-hole binary and the surrounding accretion disc can both assist the binary inspiral and align the black-hole spins to the disc angular momentum. While binary migration is due to ...

  • Zonal flows in accretion discs and their role in gravito-turbulence 

    Vanon, Riccardo (University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)St Edmund's, 2017-10-01)
    This thesis focuses on the evolution of zonal flows in self-gravitating accretion discs and their resulting effect on disc stability; it also studies the process of disc gravito-turbulence, with particular emphasis given ...