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    Generalized shock solutions for hydrodynamic black hole accretion
    (2002-12-15) Das, Tapas K.
    For the first time, all available pseudo-Schwarzschild potentials are exhaustively used to investigate the possibility of shock formation in hydrodynamic, invicid, black hole accretion discs. It is shown that a significant region of parameter space spanned by important accretion parameters allows shock formation for flow in all potentials used in this work. This leads to the conclusion that the standing shocks are essential ingredients in accretion discs around non-rotating black holes in general. Using a complete general relativistic framework, equations governing multitransonic black hole accretion and wind are also formulated and solved in the Schwarzschild metric. Shock solutions for accretion flow in various pseudo potentials are then compared with such general relativistic solutions to identify which potential is the best approximation of Schwarzschild space-time as far as the question of shock formation in black hole accretion discs is concerned.
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    Critical properties of spherically symmetric black hole accretion in Schwarzschild geometry
    (2007-02-28) Mandal, Ipsita; Ray, Arnab K.; Das, Tapas K.
    The stationary spherically symmetric accretion flow in the Schwarzschild metric has been set up as an autonomous first-order dynamical system, and it has been studied completely analytically. Of the three possible critical points in the flow, the one that is physically realistic behaves like the saddle point of the standard Bondi accretion problem. One of the two remaining critical points exhibits the strange mathematical behaviour of being either a saddle point or a centre-type point, depending on the values of the flow parameters. The third critical point is always unphysical and behaves like a centre-type point. The treatment has been extended to pseudo-Schwarzschild flows for comparison with the general relativistic analysis.
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    Critical properties and stability of stationary solutions in multi-transonic pseudo-schwarzschild accretion
    (2006-09-13) Chaudhury, Soumini; Ray, Arnab K.; Das, Tapas K.
    For inviscid, rotational accretion ows, both isothermal and polytropic, a simple dynamical systems analysis of the critical points has given a very accurate mathematical scheme to understand the nature of these points, for any pseudo-potential by which the ow may be driven on to a Schwarzschild black hole. This allows for a complete classi cation of the critical points for a wide range of ow parameters, and shows that the only possible critical points for this kind of ow are saddle points and centre-type points. A restrictive upper bound on the angular momentum of critical solutions has been established. A time-dependent perturbative study reveals that the form of the perturbation equation, for both isothermal and polytropic ows, is invariant under the choice of any particular pseudo-potential. Under generically true outer boundary conditions, the inviscid ow has been shown to be stable under an adiabatic and radially propagating perturbation. The perturbation equation has also served the dual purpose of enabling an understanding of the acoustic geometry for inviscid and rotationalows.