Viscosity in spherically symmetric accretion：（粘度在球对称吸积）.pdfVIP

A Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 000–000 (0000) Printed 22 April 2008 (MN L T X style file v2.2) E Viscosity in spherically symmetric accretion Arnab K. Ray⋆ Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta 700032, INDIA 3 0 22 April 2008 0 2 ABSTRACT n u The influence of viscosity on the flow behaviour in spherically symmetric accretion, J has been studied here. The governing equation chosen has been the Navier-Stokes 3 equation. It has been found that at least for the transonic solution, viscosity acts as a 2 mechanism that detracts from the effectiveness of gravity. This has been conjectured to set up a limiting scale of length for gravity to effect accretion, and the physical 1 interpretation of such a scale of length has been compared with the conventional v 2 understanding of the so-called “accretion radius” for spherically symmetric accretion. 5 For a perturbative presence of viscosity, it has also been pointed out that the critical 4 points for inflows and outflows are not identical, which is a consequence of the fact that 6 under the Navier-Stokes prescription, there is a breakdown of the invariance of the 0 stationary inflow and outflow solutions – an invariance that holds