Magnetorotational instability: recent developments

The magnetorotational instability is believed to play an important role in accretion disc physics in extracting angular momentum from the disc and allowing accretion to take place. For this reason the instability has been the subject of numerous numerical simulations and, increasingly, laboratory ex...

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Published inPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences Vol. 368; no. 1916; pp. 1607 - 1633
Main Authors Julien, Keith, Knobloch, Edgar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England The Royal Society Publishing 13.04.2010
The Royal Society
Subjects
Accretion Discs
Accretion disks
Algebra
Angular momentum
Astrophysics
Boundary conditions
Fluid Dynamics
Fluid shear
Geometric growth
Magnetic fields
Magnetorotational Instability
Review
Turbulence
Wavelengths
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Summary:The magnetorotational instability is believed to play an important role in accretion disc physics in extracting angular momentum from the disc and allowing accretion to take place. For this reason the instability has been the subject of numerous numerical simulations and, increasingly, laboratory experiments. In this review, recent developments in both areas are surveyed, and a new theoretical approach to understanding the nonlinear processes involved in the saturation of the instability is outlined.
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Theme Issue 'Turbulent mixing and beyond' compiled and edited by Snezhana I. Abarzhi and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
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ISSN:1364-503X
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DOI:10.1098/rsta.2009.0251