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The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes

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As the title suggests, the purpose of this chapter is to review the current status of numerical simulations of black hole accretion disks. This chapter focuses exclusively on global simulations of the accretion process within a few tens of gravitational radii of the black hole. Most of the simulations discussed are performed using general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) schemes, although some mention is made of Newtonian radiation MHD simulations and smoothed particle hydrodynamics. The goal is to convey some of the exciting work that has been going on in the past few years and provide some speculation on future directions.

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  1. Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 29424, USA

    P. Chris Fragile

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  1. International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

    Maurizio Falanga

  2. The National Institute of Astrophysics, Merate, Italy

    Tomaso Belloni

  3. The National Institute of Astrophysics, Rome, Italy

    Piergiorgio Casella

  4. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany

    Marat Gilfanov

  5. Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Peter Jonker

  6. University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Andrew King

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Fragile, P.C. (2013). Current Status of Simulations. In: Falanga, M., Belloni, T., Casella, P., Gilfanov, M., Jonker, P., King, A. (eds) The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 49. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2227-7_6

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