Incompressible wind accretion [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07093


We present a simple, analytic model for the accretion flow of an incompressible wind onto a gravitating object. This solution corresponds to the Newtonian limit of a previously known relativistic model for a fluid obeying a stiff equation of state for which the sound speed is constant everywhere and equal to the speed of light. The new solution should be useful as a benchmark test for numerical hydrodynamics codes and, moreover, it can be used as an illustrative example in a gas dynamics course.

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E. Tejeda
Mon, 22 May 17
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Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures. Submitted. Comments welcome