Paper: astro-ph/0508691
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:49:23 GMT (442kb)

Title: Simulating the boundary layer between a white dwarf and its accretion
disc

Authors: Jacob Lund Fisker & Dinshaw S. Balsara

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures
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We describe the results of numerical simulations of the dynamics of the
boundary layer (BL) between the accretion disk and the surface of a
non-magnetic white dwarf (WD) for different viscosities which corresponds to
different stages for dwarf novae burst cycles. The simulations cover the inner
part of the accretion disk, the BL, and the upper atmosphere of the star. The
high viscosity case, which corresponds to a dwarf nova in outburst, shows a
optically thick BL which after one Keplerian rotation period ($t_K$=19s)
extends up to 20-25 degrees to either side of the disk plane. The BL is
optically thick and thus occludes part of the star. The low viscosity case,
which corresponds to a dwarf nova in quiescense, also shows a BL, but it is
optically thin.

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