Wind-loaded Keplerian disk evolution

ID: wind-loaded-keplerian-disk-evolution

Subtract local specific angular momentum times mass conservation from conservation of angular momentum including wind losses S,T. With outward radial mass flux and outward viscous torque in an accretion disk , this gives . For Keplerian rotation and , substitution in mass conservation yields the displayed equation. A wind with q=1 removes local angular momentum but supplies no additional drift term; q>1 can drive accretion even with zero viscosity.

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