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arXiv · 1611.03778

Anomalous Transport In Magnetized Shear Flow

Abstract

After the initial stage of fast expanding of the hot Universe comes epoch of temperature fall and subsequent formation of dense clouds of hydrogen. Due to process of accretion some of this clouds became compact objects. Initially accretion is spherical, but then take the shape of the disk, and this 2D disk collect matter more efficient than 3D sphere. Accretion disks provide the mechanism of redistribution of angular moment and extraction of potential energy,leads to occurrence of compact objects from gas clouds. To fall moving along a spiral trajectory on the central gravitating body, a particle rotation around must reduce angular moment and energy. Outward of angular moment and movement of gas particles in the opposite direction (to the central body) happens due to of viscose friction. We can think that the disc is composed of multiple adjacent rings friction each other, each inner ring has a large angular velocity to the adjacent outer ring and thus friction of the drive ring decreased the rate of internal. The occurrence of intense dissipation in accretion flows is among the long-standing unsolved problems in astrophysics. Revealing how the magnetized turbulence creates shear stress tensor is of primary importance to understand the heating mechanism and the transport of angular momentum in accretion disks. The transport of angular momentum at greatly enhanced rates is important for the main problem of cosmogony, that is understanding the dynamics of creation of compact astrophysical objects. Without a theory explaining the enhanced energy dissipation in accretion flows of turbulent magnetized plasma we would have no clear picture of how our solar system has been created, why the angular momentum of the Sun is only 2% of the angular momentum of solar system, while carrying 99% of the solar system's mass.

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Zlatan Dimitrov Dimitrov. 2016-11-10. Anomalous Transport In Magnetized Shear Flow. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03778

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