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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 66(6 Pt 2): 066303, 2002 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12513398
ABSTRACT
The spherically symmetric stationary transonic (Bondi) flow is considered a classic example of an accretion flow. This flow, however, is along a separatrix, which is usually not physically realizable. We demonstrate, using a pedagogical example, that it is the dynamics which selects the transonic flow.