Magnetorotational instability: recent developments

• Published in: Philosophical 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
• Language: English
• 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

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...