Long-term nonlinear behaviour of the magnetorotational instability in a localized model of an accretion disc

L. J. Silvers (1)

1 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique

For more than a decade, the so-called shearing-box model has been used to study the fundamental local dynamics of accretion discs. This approach has proved to be very useful because it allows high-resolution and long-term studies to be carried out, studies that would not be possible for a global disc.

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

L. J. Silvers. Long-term nonlinear behaviour of the magnetorotational instability in a localized model of an accretion disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2008, 385, pp.1036-1044. ⟨10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12906.x⟩. ⟨hal-03785208⟩