Download or read book Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs written by J. A. Sellwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers recent developments in both theory and observations of discs in a wide variety of astrophysical contexts. The volume is based on a conference held at the University of Manchester in 1988, which brought together an international group of experts in a wide range of fields. The papers cover planetary ring systems, discs in star-forming regions, protoplanetary discs, accretion and galaxy discs--areas related by the remarkable similarity between the dynamical problems posed by each type of disc. This will be a valuable reference work for researchers and postgraduate students in many branches of astronomy.
Download or read book Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs written by Jerry A Sellwood and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynamics of Planetary Systems and Astrophysical Disks written by Joseph M. Hahn and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Cathie Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An advanced textbook on AFD introducing astrophysics students to the necessary fluid dynamics, first published in 2007.
Download or read book Principles of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Cathie Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fluid dynamical forces drive most of the fundamental processes in the Universe and so play a crucial role in our understanding of astrophysics. This comprehensive textbook, first published in 2007, introduces the necessary fluid dynamics to understand a wide range of astronomical phenomena, from stellar structures to supernovae blast waves, to accretion discs. The authors' approach is to introduce and derive the fundamental equations, supplemented by text that conveys a more intuitive understanding of the subject, and to emphasise the observable phenomena that rely on fluid dynamical processes. The textbook has been developed for use by final-year undergraduate and starting graduate students of astrophysics, and contains over fifty exercises. It is based on the authors' many years of teaching their astrophysical fluid dynamics course at the University of Cambridge.
Download or read book Fluid Dynamics and Dynamos in Astrophysics and Geophysics written by Andrew M. Soward and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-03-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing power of computer resources along with great improvements in observational data in recent years have led to some remarkable and rapid advances in astrophysical fluid dynamics. The subject spans three distinct but overlapping communities whose interests focus on (1) accretion discs and high-energy astrophysics; (2) solar, stellar, and
Download or read book Nonlinear Dynamics of Warped Astrophysical Discs written by Callum William Fairbairn and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This note is part of Quality testing.
Download or read book Solar System Dynamics written by Carl D. Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Solar System is a complex and fascinating dynamical system. This is the first textbook to describe comprehensively the dynamical features of the Solar System and to provide students with all the mathematical tools and physical models they need to understand how it works. It is a benchmark publication in the field of planetary dynamics and destined to become a classic. Clearly written and well illustrated, Solar System Dynamics shows how a basic knowledge of the two- and three-body problems and perturbation theory can be combined to understand features as diverse as the tidal heating of Jupiter's moon Io, the origin of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt, and the radial structure of Saturn's rings. Problems at the end of each chapter and a free Internet Mathematica® software package are provided. Solar System Dynamics provides an authoritative textbook for courses on planetary dynamics and celestial mechanics. It also equips students with the mathematical tools to tackle broader courses on dynamics, dynamical systems, applications of chaos theory and non-linear dynamics.
Download or read book Accretion Power in Astrophysics written by Juhan Frank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accretion Power in Astrophysics examines accretion as a source of energy in both binary star systems containing compact objects, and in active galactic nuclei. Assuming a basic knowledge of physics, the authors describe the physical processes at work in accretion discs and other accretion flows. The first three chapters explain why accretion is a source of energy, and then present the gas dynamics and plasma concepts necessary for astrophysical applications. The next three chapters then develop accretion in stellar systems, including accretion onto compact objects. Further chapters give extensive treatment of accretion in active galactic nuclei, and describe thick accretion discs. A new chapter discusses recently discovered accretion flow solutions. The third edition is greatly expanded and thoroughly updated. New material includes a detailed treatment of disc instabilities, irradiated discs, disc warping, and general accretion flows. The treatment is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers.
Download or read book Accretion Flows in Astrophysics written by Nikolay Shakura and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights selected topics of standard and modern theory of accretion onto black holes and magnetized neutron stars. The structure of stationary standard discs and non-stationary viscous processes in accretion discs are discussed to the highest degree of accuracy analytic theory can provide, including relativistic effects in flat and warped discs around black holes. A special chapter is dedicated to a new theory of subsonic settling accretion onto a rotating magnetized neutron star. The book also describes supercritical accretion in quasars and its manifestation in lensing events. Several chapters cover the underlying physics of viscosity in astrophysical discs with some important aspects of turbulent viscosity generation. The book is aimed at specialists as well as graduate students interested in the field of theoretical astrophysics.
Download or read book Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics written by E. Battaner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first course in fluid dynamics covers the basics and introduces a wealth of astronomical applications.
Download or read book Introduction to Stellar Dynamics written by Luca Ciotti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough presentation of the fundamental concepts of stellar dynamics that bridges the gap between standard texts and advanced treatises.
Download or read book Astrophysics of Planet Formation written by Philip J. Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise and self-contained, this textbook gives a graduate-level introduction to the physical processes that shape planetary systems, covering all stages of planet formation. Writing for readers with undergraduate backgrounds in physics, astronomy, and planetary science, Armitage begins with a description of the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks, moves on to the formation of planetesimals, rocky, and giant planets, and concludes by describing the gravitational and gas dynamical evolution of planetary systems. He provides a self-contained account of the modern theory of planet formation and, for more advanced readers, carefully selected references to the research literature, noting areas where research is ongoing. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to include observational results from NASA's Kepler mission, ALMA observations and the JUNO mission to Jupiter, new theoretical ideas including pebble accretion, and an up-to-date understanding in areas such as disk evolution and planet migration.
Download or read book Wave Dynamics of Accretion Disks and Other Rotating Astrophysical Flows written by Wen Fu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general consensus on the origin of quasi-periodic oscillations observed in accreting X-ray binaries is that they are related to the wave dynamics of the accretion disk. We conduct the first systematic study on the detailed dynamical properties of different discoseismic modes, in particular the effects of magnetic fields. We show through local analysis that even a weak magnetic field can "destroy" the self-trapping zone of inertial-gravity modes. The so-called corrugation modes are also strongly affected when the poloidal field approaches equal-partition. Whereas the basic wave properties of inertial-acoustic modes (p-modes) are not affected qualitatively by disk B fields. These modes become unstable large-scale oscillations when the disk vortensity (vorticity divided by surface density) profile has positive gradient at the corotation (where wave pattern speed matches background flow rotating speed) and they are not qualitatively affected by inner disk boundary as long as it has some reflectivity. With numerical simulation, we probe the nonlinear evolution of global overstable disk p-modes and demonstrate that they are quite robust even after non-linear saturation. We find, however, that disc B field can split the corotation resonance and significantly reduce the growth rates of these modes, thus challenging its viability as a model for observed high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations. We employ similar technique to study the dynamics of other astrophysical flows, such as accreting tori and rotating protoneutron stars. Similar suppress- ing effects from magnetic fields are also found in thin accreting tori and rotating protoneutron stars. We found that magnetic fields tend to suppress the Papaloizou-Pringle instability in relatively thin tori, while it can lead to a new instability in relatively thick tori where Papaloizou-Pringle instability cannot operate if the system is non-magnetized. Differentially rotating neutron stars have long been known to be subject to a global non-axisymmetric instability. We show that a toroidal stellar magnetic field can suppress this instability when the B field is a few x 1016 G or stronger.
Download or read book Stellar Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics written by Michael J. Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all phases of the life of a star, hydrodynamical processes play a major role. This volume gives a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge in stellar astrophysical fluid dynamics, and its publication marked the 60th birthday of Douglas Gough, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge and leading contributor to stellar astrophysical fluid dynamics. Topics include properties of pulsating stars, helioseismology, convection and mixing in stellar interiors, dynamics of stellar rotation, planet formation and the generation of stellar and planetary magnetic fields. Each chapter is written by leading experts in the field, and the book provides an overview that is central to any attempt to understand the properties of stars and their evolution. With extensive references to the technical literature, this is a valuable text for researchers and graduate students in stellar astrophysics.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Galaxy Dynamics Formation and Evolution written by Ignacio Ferreras and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galaxies, along with their underlying dark matter halos, constitute the building blocks of structure in the Universe. Of all fundamental forces, gravity is the dominant one that drives the evolution of structures from small density seeds at early times to the galaxies we see today. The interactions among myriads of stars, or dark matter particles, in a gravitating structure produce a system with fascinating connotations to thermodynamics, with some analogies and some fundamental differences. Ignacio Ferreras presents a concise introduction to extragalactic astrophysics, with emphasis on stellar dynamics, and the growth of density fluctuations in an expanding Universe. Additional chapters are devoted to smaller systems (stellar clusters) and larger ones (galaxy clusters). Fundamentals of Galaxy Dynamics, Formation and Evolution is written for advanced undergraduates and beginning postgraduate students, providing a useful tool to get up to speed in a starting research career. Some of the derivations for the most important results are presented in detail to enable students appreciate the beauty of maths as a tool to understand the workings of galaxies. Each chapter includes a set of problems to help the student advance with the material.
Download or read book Galactic Dynamics written by James Binney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-27 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative introduction to galactic astrophysics for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers, this second edition has been updated with advances in the subject since the 1987 edition.
