Hydrodynamical shear mixing in subsonic boundary layers and its role in the thermonuclear explosion of classical novae

[Context] The transition zone between the white dwarf (WD) envelope and a circumstellar accretion disk in classical novae, the boundary layer, is a region of strong dissipation and intense vorticity. In this strongly sheared layer, the hydrogen-rich accreted gas is expected to mix with the underlyin...

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Autores: Bellomo, Marco, Shore, Steven N., José, Jordi
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/371982
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/371982
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Accretion
Accretion disks
Hydrodynamics
Instabilities
Nuclear reactions
Nucleosynthesis
Binaries: general
Novae
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Resumo:[Context] The transition zone between the white dwarf (WD) envelope and a circumstellar accretion disk in classical novae, the boundary layer, is a region of strong dissipation and intense vorticity. In this strongly sheared layer, the hydrogen-rich accreted gas is expected to mix with the underlying WD outermost layers so the conditions for the onset of the thermonuclear runaway (TNR) in classical nova will be different from the standard treatment of the onset and subsequent mixing.