Simulation of advective accretion flows around black holes under various outer boundary conditions

Abstract

We simulated various accretion disc structures with viscous hydrodynamic (HD) flow around a black hole (BH). We found that the structure of the accretion disc is significantly influenced by changes in the physical parameters of the initial inflowing gases. These physical parameters can be called outer boundary conditions (OBCs) at the outer-accretion boundary and represented on an OBC plane, which is primarily divided into hot-mode and cold-mode inflowing gases. We found smooth and shocked flows in the simulation, which follow the semi-analytical solutions with their OBCs. Interestingly, we observed that certain types of OBCs can produce shocks with jet-like features in the accretion flow. However, other OBCs can produce smooth or shock-free accretion flow, which may or may not have outflows. The smooth flows can display both the lowest and highest angular momentum distributions among the advective flows, depending on the OBCs. Additionally, the nature of the accretion flows can be either steady or quasi-steady, also influenced by the OBCs. We also observed that solutions corresponding to hot-mode gases have a greater tendency to generate outflows compared to those with the cold-mode. Therefore, this qualitative study of OBCs is crucial for understanding accretion physics, which can aid in modeling accretion discs, similar to the quantitative studies (which involve only changing mass accretion rates) of the inflowing gases. Thus, we assert that an accretion model should be based on both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the initial inflowing gases.